TALLINN,
Estonia (AP) — Jewish organizations have denounced an Estonian
newspaper for publishing a mock ad for weight-loss pills
depicting emaciated prisoners at a Nazi concentration camp.
Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem on Sunday called the
mock ad in the Eesti Ekspress weekly a “perverted attempt
at humor at the expense of the Nazis’ millions of victims.”
Alla Jakobson, spokeswoman for Estonia’s
Jewish community, said in newspaper Postimees that the incident
shows Estonian society is experiencing “major problems with
moral and ethical values.”
Sulev Vedler, deputy editor of Eesti
Ekspress says the mock ad, which ran in the paper’s humor
section, was poking fun at an Estonian gas company that recently
used an image of Auschwitz to promote its services.
Vedler says the ad “was not targeted
against Jewish people.” timesofisrael.com
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