Professor Hasan Bulkhari, a senior cultural adviser to Iran's Education Ministry, recently stated that the animated series 'Tom and Jerry' was created as part of a Jewish conspiracy.
Bulkhari explained that the cartoon aimed at shifting the image of mice - often attributed to Jews by the Nazi regime - from a negative one to a more positive, friendly, intelligent one, according to Worldnetdaily.
Speaking on a televised program on Iranian television, the advisor explained, "The mouse is the wise and smart one, and he violently beats the poor cat.
And yet, this cruelty does not cause you to despise the mouse. He looks so nice, and he is smart."
"The Jews were degraded and termed 'dirty mice.' 'Tom and Jerry' was made in order to change the Europeans' perception of mice. One of terms used was 'dirty mice.'"
"It should be noted that mice are very cunning ... and dirty."
"The program was produced in an attempt to erase the image of the mouse from the minds of European children and to show that the mouse is not dirty and that he even has nice characteristics," he pointed out.
"The Jewish Walt Disney Company gained international fame with this cartoon," he said.
"If you study European history, you will see who was the main power in hoarding money and wealth in the 19th century," continued Bolkhari. "In most cases, it is the Jews. Perhaps that was one of the reasons which caused Hitler to begin the anti-Semitic trend, and then the extensive propaganda about the crematoria began. ... Some of this is true. We do not deny all of it."
Created in 1939 creation by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna, the MGM series was launched as World War II began.
Over 200 cartoons featuring Tom and Jerry were created, and the cartoon remains popular to this day.
I smell sick antisemitic propaganda, not Israel bashing, coming out of Iran and I am sickened to my stomach. Iranians have to learn to limit their hatred of Irsael to Israel, not world Jews, or anti Islam caricatures will show up everywhere in world.
Dan from Texas,
I noticed your lack of knowledge on history of ethnicities: Semitic people are the descendant of Sam son of Noah, so all the people who lived in the Middle East area and their offspring including Arab Jews, Arab Christian and Arab Muslim. So Russian and European Jews are by definition not Semitic people. Wise up dude!
When will you israelis acccept facts, you are being caught out again & again, especially as you khazars are as Semitic as Martians. Hitler blamed the Jews, he was a diluted zionist, so giving out threats of more cartoons can only prove to the real free world what you are. israelis say raping pigs is better than having sex with the goy, it goes as far to say that 100 pigs will be yours in israeli paradise. The envy of someone having money but you having none is so blantantly obvious. You are really Anti Semitic.
You do know even that Iran is not an Arab country, so what do you know about Arab. We love Brazilian People but I do not think all of them are ignorant and rude like you, read a little, educate yourself and you will find that you ahve almost lack of everything
The Disney now is not jew, its Saudi Arabian. Actualy i like this cartoon because its funny, if you find a better cartoon then i will respect your opinion. And i wanna say to David that most of the Arabic People love this Cartoon so please stop saying bullshet
this is just another example of the bullshit that is made up against the "enemies" by muslims who are constantly looking for another enemy. Of course the mouse is smarter and beats the cat all the time, thats what makes it funny. If it was the other way around it would not be an amusing cartoon. Are you going to use road runner next?
I think it os the part about jews being successful, educated and living in free countries where their women dont have to resort to sex change operations, they can express their views freely and they are not indoctrinated with hatred at every media outlet. It is the muslims who have to change, not the rest of the world.
Marjorie, though i'm not even sure how your charges against israeli relate to the article in question, i'm just wondering how many israelis you've actually met who would rather sleep with a pig than a goy. do you know ANYTHING about israeli society?????????
An Iranian man comes from work to discover his wife packing all her stuff up.
"Where are you going?" he asks.
"I'm leaving you" she replies.
"Why?" he counters.
"Because I found out you're a paedophile" she cried
"A paedophile? A paedophile?" he screamed
"That's a pretty big word for a ten year old!"
Dear Iranian professor, i have watched Tom and Jerry since i was a little baby and never enjoyed any other cartoon as i enjoyed this one and i still do, and nevr thought there is anything of this ciocpiracy you are talking about i know lots of arab paople who are in love with this cartton and nobody ever thought of linking it the way you did, because it is very cute and childish. i think it is time to stop inventing concpiracy theories and act to protect our area, our sisters in iraq are being raped every day and you are talking about cartoons. if you become obsessed with something it will surelly gives you more illusions.
I don't support this professor. I also watch it but don't find it funny any more. It is monotonous and regular cat beating by mouse. If this report reduces the addiction from Tom -Jerry to some other cartoon then I'll be happy. But not with this conspiracy theory.
I fully agree with Yasmine. She said everything I wanted to say. Little children or even grownups would not look at this cartoon as anything other than a funny and nice cartoon!!!
No! It would not even change the image of mice as clean creatures. It's not like your kid would see a mouse and say "hey it's Jerry! how cute!" The mouse in the cartoon does not even look like a real mouse. It walks on too legs and has round ears and a round face.
I think the cartoon had been created for the sake of fun and art. It is a nice cartoon we all watched and loved; has nothing to do with jews and Germans.
Baha'a
First of all, no one has the right to say "Muslims" are such and such because of what few muslims do or think ! .. I'm a muslim and I find the Iranian "Professor"'s theories to be embaressing ! he should be awarded the title "peasant" , it suits his simple mind!
You are tatally right, would not be better for him to work on somthing more usefull. I also would never accept those ignorants who are using this stupid issue to attack arabs or moslems.
It's a damn cartoon for crying out loud! You know we have plenty of idiots here in the US, it's a good idea to point out an idiot when you see it. Stupid people tend to believe BS like this.
a conspiracy you can find one, anywhere, all you need, (2006-03-17 , 16:48) - Reply
is a little imagination and a mouthpiece. No need to have some basic facts right. Just goes to show, we do have a chance, our enemies don't even have enough intelligence to make up decent conspiracies. Hey, let's hold a contest refuting the existance of a persian empire. I'm sure we'll find plenty of "historians" with "proof" to disprove it's existence.
wow !!
Al-bawaba you sure do know how to prove muslim journalism is nothing more than anti-jewish rhetoric.
the rest of the world could never believe anythign coming from this site
Sam The Sham, Los Angeles, (2006-03-19 , 02:50) - Reply
I used to think Iranians were smart people. But if this guy represents the best and the brightest, Iran is in big trouble. All the best to the Muslims who see through this bs. Your posts are enlightening me.
Mickey Mouse was a Jew. Donald Duck was a neo-Con Christian evangelical. Together, they are responsible for the fact that six million Jooos can dominate the whole pathetic Moslem world.
And don't forget Mighty Mouse - he is a metaphor for the IDF.
Wankers.
You define pathetic & wanker, well your love of kiddie rape shows what you are. You cannot fight 1-1 so the goyeem does it for you, such a coward "race", a bunch of losers with no origin or religion.
a religion that condones, murdering ppl, (2006-03-23 , 17:38) - Reply
when they become disilusioned with the violence and brutality and decide to switch to some other religion. Believe me, it is the Devil that kills others out of jelousy. No law from God ever oppresses, God is merciful, kindness, peace and hope.
was born as a religion about, 500 yrs after Jesus taught, (2006-03-30 , 20:36) - Reply
us the way and Mohammed agreed and supported him. Less than a hundred years after Mohammed's death, the Muslims started building theyr empire. They robbed pillaged and murdered into Spain, Turkey, North Africa, India etc. etc. In fact, conquest was so ingrained into the muslim psyche that califs measured their worth in how much they stole and subjugated. It was arabs and persians that perfected theft of lands and murder of innocents. Eventually the rest of the world had to strike back.
WAKE UP WORLD ISLAM NEEDS TO BE GONE. HITLER HAD THE RIGHT IDEA HE JUST USED IT AGAINST THE WRONG PEOPLE.JET LEE IT IS YOU WHO CANNOT BE TRUSTED.GOD TRUSTS THE JEWISH PEOPLE NEED I SAY MORE?
When you learn to speak in an articulate, thoughtful, historically aware and humane manner, you may be able to look up the work 'anti-semite' in a dictionary.
i just want to say that arab people r now lowest than low coz they forgot thier traditons and values and went running after the west in every thing immoral and also they lost thier idendidty in the way so they r now like the sloughterd chicken in few moments will die and evry one will forget about it. So istead attacking jewish people please see ur selves and please leave Tom and Jerry alone there is nothing wronge with it it is ur mind which needs repairing Mr. and by the way i'm a muslim lady but not arabic and i'm very proud of myself.thank u.
Its Violent, no one can deny that, teaching our youngsters violence at early age, its funny, but yet, its more than that, it simply represents the ancient David (Jerry) VS Goliath (Tom). the small/ tiny, against the Big/Giant.
What does the normal world expect of Prof. Hasan Bulkari? He utters obsurd and rediculous remarks about Jews that behind closed doors intelligent people laugh at. Throwing anti-semetic remarks at the Jews only makes the world shake their collective heads and worry that intelligent men could lower themsleves to petty name calling. We as Muslems can not continue to address such foolishness. Some interpreter's remarks come out of jealousy and frustration sounding like the child who is lacking any remarks but must resort to name calling. Grow-up socalled statesmen. The world is watching and shaking their collective heads.
first of all tom and jerry is not a walt disney production its a warner bros production and please its time that u stop saying that everything is a Zionist conspiracy no one does belive that anymore if there is a real conspiracy its by you the iranians and the liers rejim in iran
...and it is now the MOST COMMON LETTER IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!!! Can't you people see what is going on!!!
Thank you Muslim friends on this board who reject conspiracy theories. Please demand good evidence when people tell you about world politics and culture. I wouldn't mind debating Muslims at all if their arguments were based on evidence and solid reasoning, rather than conspiracy theories, mere plausibility and circular reasoning. But with professors like this guy, it may be awhile before Islamic public discourse reaches global standards of reasoning - such as they are.
Please reject conspiracy theories. Demand good evidence.
Tom and Jerry is not a Disney cartoon. It was first produced by MGM studios, under Hanna and Barbera (1940-1958), Gene Deitch (1961-1962), and Chuck Jones (1963-1967). Hanna and Barbera picked it up again in 1975 for their own company. They sold it Filmation in 1980, and then Fox bought it. Turner Ent./Warner Bros. picked it up next. Disney never touched this franchise.
I guess this "professor" is just seeking attention. He didn't even Google the show. I guess people believe him because it fits their world view - and so they don't demand that his claims also be true.
Why not believe in conspiracy.What is going on now? If you are blind, you'll see the light by simply typing words like "illuminati", "New World Order", "secret societies"....You will not come again with such stupid and ignorant comments...and you'll thank me..unless u're a "Jerry". it's not bullshit...
itis the british who are the biggest enemy of humanitgfo and sort the enlgish p[eople-kill the english soldiers in iraq--they are more harami than american or jews even
the american foreing policy is determined n0t by israel but byu british-kill those british first.
muslims are less than stupid. Every thing bad happens to them, because of their grave mistakes, they blame it on the Jews.
Muslims use all medical and other Jewish inventions for their benefit then they curse Jews?
Most of the Arab nations were created before Israel but Israel exceled them all. Why? Because Israelis are much much smarter and Arabs are much dumber.
historian, Paris, France, (2006-04-23 , 21:51) - Reply
Professor Hasan Bulkhari, a senior cultural adviser to Iran's Education Ministry is himself a joke. When MGM formed its own animation department in 1937, Hanna was hired by department head Fred Quimby, who later became the producer of Tom And Jerry. At MGM, Hanna met his future partner for 60 years, Joseph Barbera.
None of them Jewish, by the way!
Born in 1911 in New York City, Joseph Barbera had worked in a bank before working for Fleischer Studios, painting and inking cells. He worked for the MGM cartoon studios, where he met Hanna.
Those ARE the facts!
I can imagine the accuracy of Iranian education if they rely on these idiots for information.
When someone looks for answers to world drama in a childs cartoon called "Tom and Jerry", they are really reaching. I dont think this kind of analysis has base in any known reality.
Good Luck to this writer, as I am sure he will never have more then bad publicity.
this article and many of the comments are truly frightening...and odious - Al Bawaba seems to attract many crazed anti semites who are really out of their minds.
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