Jews have come out swinging against a new Iranian Holocaust denial website, which the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called a “virtual cesspool” of anti-Semitism. The ADL called on the U.S. government to publicly condemn the latest anti-Jewish offensive in the Islamic Republic.

The “HoloCartoon” site mocks the Holocaust, in which six million Jews were murdered in gas chambers, death marches, by hunger and by other forms of torture. It also displays cartoons showing Jews with hook-nosed worms tunneling holes in history books, and another caricature displays fake bodies at a concentration camp.

"It is rife with anti-Semitic imagery, Jewish conspiracy theories, Holocaust denial and factual inaccuracies," the ADL commented. "HoloCartoon is a pernicious website replete with vicious anti-Semitism and caricatures of Jews fabricating the Holocaust story to advance their goals, and depictions of Jews as murderers and manipulative money worshippers.

"Its pseudo-history makes a mockery of the Holocaust and the site is little more than a virtual cesspool of anti-Semitism." 

The website introduces the viewer to a Pink Panther theme song and tries to show that "the killing of 6 million Jews in the Second World War known as the Holocaust was a sheer lie." The site is “dedicated to all those who have been killed under the pretext of the Holocaust," Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported.

ADL director Abe Foxman, a Holocaust survivor, said, "This type of anti-Semitism is the calling card of the Iranian regime and a reflection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who continues a drumbeat of Holocaust denial and Jew-bashing.”

Israel’s Yad VaShem Holocaust Memorial Museum stated, ""The vulgar and cynical approach of the website, a combination of Holocaust denial and distortion, illustrated with anti-Semitic caricatures, further illustrates Iran’s disregard for reality and truth vis-à-vis the Holocaust, Jews and Israel."