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."
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