Iran re-writes the history of animation icons Tom and Jerry

WorldNetDaily: Tom and Jerry – a Jewish makeover?:

"'The Jewish Walt Disney Company gained international fame with this cartoon,' said Bolkhari. 'It is still shown throughout the world. This cartoon maintains its status because of the cute antics of the cat and mouse – especially the mouse.

"'Some say that the main reason for making this very appealing cartoon was to erase a certain derogatory term that was prevalent in Europe.'"

Just when you thought the Iranians couldn't top themselves after the weighty theological controversy over short- vs. long-legged dogs, along comes Prof. Hasan Bolkhari to show how the "Jewish Walt Disney Company" created Tom and Jerry to improve the post-Hitler image of Jews in Europe.

As the WND story points out, of course, Tom and Jerry were created for MGM by the team of Hanna and Barbera in 1939.

For some reason, WND omitted the relevant facts that the boss of MGM in those days was the fabled Louis B. Mayer who was Jewish, while the Disney company was controlled by Walt Disney and his brother Roy who were not Jewish but had a much more famous Mouse - Mickey.

It is amazing that such stupid propaganda claims can be seriously offered by Iran, and even more so that it comes from an advisor to the government's education ministry who actually lectures on cinema for Iran's Channel 4 TV.

There seems to be no corner of the culture that the Iranian propaganda machine will not seek to pollute for the advancement of their hatred of the West generally and the Jews in particular. This illustrates why fighting anti-semitism is the urgent business of all of us; the radical Muslim attack on the Jews is in many ways merely a proxy for its general hatred of the idea of the West, notion of progress, and therefore the modern world.

Now, there are certain elements of modernism which are reprehensible - see, for example, the works of theologians like Schaeffer and Van Til - but the kind of attitude the Iranian regime, the Taliban and al Qaeda exemplify would throw out the baby with the bathwater.