Further adding to Iran’s lofty reputation for academic excellence, an Iranian professor has critically analyzed Tom and Jerry.
His conclusion?
Zionist plot, what did you think?
Here’s a few quotes from one of Professor Hasan Bolkhari’s interfaith relations lectures. If you check out the video, you’ll see Iranian university students in a lecture hall, earnestly taking notes:
"The Jewish Walt Disney Company gained international fame with this cartoon…"
"Some say that the main reason for making this very appealing cartoon was to erase a certain derogatory term that was prevalent in Europe."
[…]
"If you study European history…[the] Jews were degraded and termed ‘dirty mice.’ Tom and Jerry was made in order to change the Europeans’ perception of mice.
[…]
"The mouse [Jerry] is very clever and smart. Everything he does is so cute…This is exactly why some say it was meant to erase [the previous negative] image of mice from the minds of European children, and to show that the mouse is not dirty…"
I can see that he’s put A LOT of thought into this. But I’m puzzled by one thing, though. The good doctor says that "Jewish Disney" feverishly spent its valuable time and money just so that it could rehabilitate the unfavorable image of a few European rodents. But then that very same "Jewish Disney" turns around and undoes it all by remaking "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy", which portrays mice as greedy, sneaky and manipulative puppetmasters.
Maybe the doc could use some of that valuable edjamacation to figure THAT ONE out for us.
[“Laughing Jerry” lost and replaced from original blog.]
UPDATE (Apr 6/06): Whoa, wonder how much grant money that prof’s been getting. Turns out Tom and Jerry were created by Warner Brothers, not the Disney company.
Facts sure are inconvenient things…
UPDATE (May 10/07): Another well-known Zionist organization, Hamas Al-Aqsa TV, seeks to further redeem the reputation of mice by featuring it’s own version of Mickey on a program for Palestinian children.
(Unlike the Disney version, however, Hamas Mickey calls for Islamic world domination and the annihilation of Jews.)
UPDATE (May 15/07): A Cox & Forkum cartoon on Hamas Mickey:
UPDATE (Jul 1/07): Amid the outcry, Farfur (otherwise known as Hamas Mickey) meets his end:
In the final skit, Farfour was beaten to death by an actor posing as an
Israeli official trying to buy Farfour’s land. At one point, Farfour called the
Israeli a "terrorist."
"Farfour was martyred while defending his land," said Sara, the teen
presenter. He was killed "by the killers of children," she added.
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