Iran is hosting an international cartoon contest–on the Holocaust.

Organizers of the 11th Tehran International Cartoon Biennia claim the event is not meant to either approve or deny the genocide that claimed the lives of six million Jews at the hands of the Nazis, according to Iran’s semi-official IRNA news agency.

“The main question is that why is there no permission to talk about the Holocaust despite their (the West) belief in freedom of speech,” contest secretary Masud Shojai-Tabatabai said, The Jerusalem Post reported.

But he claimed that Israel has used the Holocaust as a pretext in the conflict with Palestinians.

“Why should the oppressed people of Palestine pay the price for the Holocaust?” he told IRNA.

“We are also worried about the contemporary holocausts in which a great number of women and children are being killed in Iraq, Yemen and Syria,” he added, the Tehran Times reported.

Some 50 countries are expected to participate in the June 16th contest, which is offering a $50,000 cash prize to the winner, and will also will feature a separate portrait contest focusing on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

In May, a similar event was held in Iran at the Second International Holocaust Cartoon Contest.

Shojai-Tabatabai said that event also aimed to display the West’s double standard toward freedom of expression – particularly the publication of satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, FARS news reported.

The magazine gained worldwide recognition after Islamic brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi gunned down 12 people at its offices because of the cartoons.