Tom and Jerry - the international Jewish conspiracy

Here’s another reason why I don’t want Iran to get a nuclear bomb.

Incidentally, Tom and Jerry wasn’t made by Walt Disney.

UPDATE: One or two Times colleagues who watched this thought the translation was a spoof. So I should stress that it is genuine.

UPDATE: From this, to cats that look like Hitler.

Comments

[Spartacus]

Never let the facts stand in the way of an evil conspiracy.

Reminded me of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus

[Jonathan Lowenstein]

Walt Disney has been accused of being an anti-Semite!

[Mara MacSeoinin]

Totally bizarre premise for a lecture, particularly when one recalls that Walt Disney was extremely anti-Semitic...

[jeet]

Not only is he ignorant of Walt Disney's rumored anti-Semitism, but "Tom & Jerry" isn't by Walt Disney at all, but Hanna-Barbera.

Couldn't he be bothered to check his facts?

[Franky Pelvis]

Tom and Jerry was a Hanna-Barbera creation anyway, not Disney.

[Matt Johnson]

Tom and Jerry wasn't even produced by Walt Disney-- it was Hanna and Barbera , who made the movies for MGM. A simple search of Wikipedia confirms this.

[Kenneth Moyle]

Not to mention that Tom & Jerry was made by MGM, not Disney.

I would love to have more context for this video.

[James Kennett]

The video would be funny if it were not so unpleasant and disturbing.

It is worth noting that the subject is an Iranian university professor. Anyone who has spent any time in academia will know that there is no belief so ridiculous that it has not been advocated by a university professor.

There is also a cultural barrier in terms of acceptable speech: in the West we have a taboo on anti-semitic expression, for good reasons. In Iran, this is unfortunately not the case.

I would wager that one university professor or another from Britain or the USA has publicly advocated the following:
- that we should bomb countries that might pose a threat to us in the future, as long as they are relatively small, poor and distant
- that while of course we respect the notion of property, we should use force to commandeer the world's oil supply
- that all men should be castrated in order to reduce the incidence of rape

If it would take a week's research to find a professor endorsing one of these viewpoints, it would take only a few minutes to find them amongst the writings of our journalists. While these ideas are within the limits of acceptable speech in the West, they would surely astound and horrify people in some parts of the world - and, following the argument of the post, make them wish that we did not have nuclear weapons.

[Les]

You would think that being a university professor that he would at least check his facts are right before making a total ass of himself, after all if he got this simple fact wrong, maybe the rest of his conclusions are also questionable! Tom and Jerry was made by MGM.

[Stephen]

The guy's obviously a loon and Iran is dangerous under it's current leaders. But who is this guy? I'm sure you could find similar rubbish coming for the pulpits of evangelical churches. Is this preacher a major figure?

[Justin]

I am not sure what is funnier. Tom and Jerry or that lecturer. On reflection, Tom and Jerry.

[Joe]

Of course it would almost be funny if it weren’t so sad.

Seeing those young people scribbling away whilst listening to that delusional hatred is just heartbreaking.

What a tragedy for Iran. How can we stop it becoming a tragedy for the rest of us?

[OfMiceAndMen]

Brilliant. Fine example of the depth and wisdom that abounds in this region. Im counting the minutes until the BBC rush to write their articles in support of banning all Tom And Jerry cartoons...

[Raj]

lol! How about having a disney cartoon featuring a cute Jew. That would make it much simpler. Or how about cute jewish charchters in hollywood movies; surely, Zach Braff could play that..., he's cute anyway. I've got the hots for him.

[Natalie Wood]

C'mmon, Daniel: Even by Iranian standards, this has to be a bubbe meice!

[Michael Crowe]

The speaker goes on to say that Daffy Duck was really Porkie Pig in an elaborate, stuffy costume, and vice versa.

[Seamus Breathnach]

What religious inspiration is capable of sometimes is hard to believe. What religiously inspired 'universities', whether, Hindu, Jewish, Christian , Islam or other, are capable of parading as 'science' is equally incredible. What they do to students who have no means of developing a critical faculty of their own is unspeakable.

If for no other reason but to establish a critical faculty, this film should be shown around the world. Every religious body, religious seminary and upright professorial mind in existence should be encouraged to listen to it. It ranks with St. Paul's visions, Tertullian's outbursts -- or even Pope Benedict XVI's Regensburg Lecture, where the Christian animus for Islam hides itself behind theo-logic.

This film is so shocking that when comes to realise it is not a clever joke, one comes to the conclusion that it is a priceless jem in that it portrays the studious mind intent on finding material to prop up its prejudices. Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy!

All Religions have an incurable compulsion to appoint those who most proclaim their tenets fanatically. It is most unfortuane that they appoint them uncritically and to the highest as well as the most delicate power-positions. This film is , in point of fact, the conjuncture between personal 'faith' and communal hatred.

When I was young I was compelled to pray for the 'conversion of England and Russia.' One couldn't help but consider English and Russians as ' dirty mices'. The only surprising thing about the Irish educaional sysem in the fifties was that no one every felt it necessary to pray for the conversion of America.

So , that's why I never found Tom and Jerry so funny!

Seamus Breathnach
Dublin

www.irishcriminology.com

[The Sanity Inspector]

Good thing they don't have coyotes and roadrunners in Iran. Do they...?

[Mr Eugenides]

Jo Barbera, of Hanna and Barbera, was a Lebanese-American. So much for the Jewish conspiracy.

[Al]

Apart from the obviously ludicrous inaccuracy of the discussion the section I want to focus on is when he says we now do not hate the mouse when it is cruel to the cat...thanks to the cartoon.

Erm...does he know that the cat is permanently trying to eat the mouse and the mouse is acting purely in self-defence?

His view is that the mouse is to be despised for having a sense of survival.

Now look at this precise point in the context of the treatment of Jews in Europe for the last few hundred years...and even go further back and look at the treatment of Jews under Roman rule...

This is indeed the crux of the anti-semitic argument: that the cat is allowed to eat the mouse and that the mouse is to be despised for simply wanting to survive.

That the anti-semite is allowed to hate the Jew and that the Jew is to be despised for simply wanting to survive.

Nothing so scary as the insane who are treated as sane.

[Don Zeiter]

The scary thing is that if he were to teach that in the US, every tenured professor outside of Bob Jones U would say he should be allowed to teach in the name of academic freedom (see Ward Churchill and Kevin Barret). But let the army set up a recruiting table at a job fair on campus and they are more than happy to run them off.

[Bob Loblaw]

I always thought the mouse was actually America, and the cartoons were an analogy for defeating violent, oppresive, anti-western dictatorships, all as a ruse to steal the world's oil and force McDonald's on the unsuspecting. I'm surprised Tom & Jerry haven't shown up as giant papier-mache puppets in anti-war and anti-globo protest marches yet.

[Greg]

This is what happens when you smoke hash and read Art Spiegelman's Maus

[Donald Wilkins]

Thank you so much. I didn't like Tom and Jerry too much, more slap stick than I like. But now I do have something to laugh at when I see it. The image of a deranged Iranian extolling on Jewish propaganda is too funny - until as you point out he gets the bomb.

[Gene]

According to Wikipedia, the first Tom and Jerry short was made in 1940 -- a little late to be trying to save the Jews from Hitler.

[JonathanInTelAviv]

This is another testament to Iran's depravity, and another justification for what must be done about Iran's nuclear aspirations.

[John]

>>> I'm sure you could find similar rubbish coming for the pulpits of evangelical churches.

You're sure of that? I've heard lots of stuff from religious leaders that I disagree with, but I don't recall one of them postulating that Daffy Duck is a clever Hollywood ruse to enable Jewish bankers to take over the world.

[CC]

I love how the "professor" namedrops Schindler's List as an acceptable (read: sanitized enough that batsh*t Iranian anti-semites who believe the Holocaust was fiction) portrayal of Jews in 1940's Germany.

[David]

So funny and dangerous, just like the loonies in the USA who wish to ban the teaching of evolution & leaders who go to pray for guidance

[Sissy Willis]

Look to the animals.

Cats that look like Hitler:
http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/

[Joanne Jacobs]

I wonder what the professor thinks of "An American Tail" and its sequel, starring Fievel Mousekewitz. (This is not a Disney creation either.) Those Jewish mice are everywhere.

[RebeccaH]

This is why the West laughs at the Islamic world.

[James Kennett]

This sober discussion of Iranian-Jewish relations was written by no less than Natan Sharansky:

http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=17262

[Bryan]

I wonder what he would make of Speedy Gonzales?

[MadMan]

To those people watching this who are saying to themselves, "O.K. so he's a University Professor crackpot, I'm sure we have plenty of professors here that teach some whacked out stuff."
Please realize, this lecture was on one of their national TV channels!
They wouldn't put just anything on TV. Rather, they must feel that this lecturer and/or topic was of great public importance.

[Nick]

The man says that the mouse is clever and cute, and that these factors automatically cause him to be a Jewish stereotype. Why? Can no-one else by clever? Can no-one else by cute?

He goes on to say that the mouse hurts the cat, but that we do not hate it. The professor reminds me of Bottom in a Midsummer Nights Dream: Bottom does not understand the conventions of drama (i.e. to suspend disbelief) and so every little thing in his play (including a lion and the death of two lovers) should be explained so as not to distress women in the audience. Similarly, the professor seems to not understand the conventions of slapstick comedy, seeming to believe that the mouse's antics are for comedy and that no lasting message is to be taken.

The man is quite clearly a fool, and people of his intellectual calibre should be unable to speak on television, let alone become university professors.

[soccer dad]

Actually this is old news. The more recent news is that Pirates of the Carribean is part of a vast Zionist conspiracy.
I blogged about it here:
http://soccerdad.baltiblogs.com/archives/2007/02/26/tom_and_jerry_and_jack_and_will.html

Prefer not to put my details up, just to say the translation was pretty faithful, not a spoof.

[David]

Undoubtedly there are many weird and vile views promoted in Western Universities, but Iran is a country where intellectuals get killed for expressing unapproved views.

I do not imagine you get on TV unless the government is fairly comfortable about your opinions.

[BritishBornEducatedMuslim]

As a British Born Muslim I'd like to make clear that i agree with many of the posts on this site. The professor is clutching at straws, clearly has his facts incorrect, and is expressing some very worrying anti-semitic views.

However this professor seems no more stupid than Mr Blair, or Mr Bush.
I recall that they got their facts grossly wrong? But I guess a few hundred thousand dead iraqi's doesn't make much difference? - just so that we in the west are safe from Iraq's WMD's.

Most people on this site seem to worry, as to what Iran would do with a Nuclear weapon - attack Israel? - if others share the professors views?

Ever wondered what most muslims worry about with Blair and Bush being in power?

Ever wonder why the Muslim world doesn't trust anyone in the west?

Just as there can never be a repeat of the cull of jews in WW2, western governments MUST learn from their mistakes. Iraq - cannot be repeated.

[Seamus Breathnach]

I knew this film reminded me of something, but I couldn't just put my finger on it. And then it dawned on me; it's the Islamic version of Father Ted.

Seamus Breathnach
irishcriminology.com

[John]

Israel cannot hope to fool the entire world by playing the victim when it is occupying Palestinian land and killing more Palestinian civilians than Hamas kills Israeli civilians. Unless Israel acts within International law and obeys UN resolutions, then I'm affraid Iran's wish to end the the state of Israel will be realised. If any nations wishes to exist then it must exist in peace and justice. It cannot exist in oppression and terror. Palestinians commit terror on Israel and Israel in return commits state terror upon Palestinians. This has got to stop. I am shocked by silence by President Bush.

[Mike ,Sussex]

Although this shows a high level of anti-semitism and paranoia in the iranian inteligencia.
I think they are worried about the American film industry has conditioned the minds of Americans over the years.
I think its true that films like Starship Troopers & Resident evil do condition people to accept high levels of violence in war situations.
I think Starship troopers although has a element of comedy/farse. Is some kind of reflection of American leaders desire to rally round the flag & send off the young infantry men to desert landscapes on alien worlds to fight strange bugs with strange cultures.