The Public Prosecutor's Office intends to prosecute the Arab European League  www.ael.nl for a cartoon. The cartoon published on the AEL website illustrates the claim that the Holocaust is an invention of the Jews. The Public Prosecutor's Office has determined that this constitutes discrimination since it insults Jews as a group.

In 2006 the Centre for Information and Documentation on Israel www.cidi.nl/index.php lodged a complaint about a series of cartoons on the AEL website. The Holocaust cartoon was the only one judged to be punishable by law.

The cartoon shows two men standing beneath a sign reading "Auschwitz" and beside several dead bodies, saying the victims might not have been Jewish but they still had to "get to six million" - the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust.

Two weeks ago the Public Prosecutor's office offered to drop the case if the AEL removed the cartoon from its website. At first the AEL acquiesced, but then it put the cartoon back on the website claiming that the ruling was an instance of double standards, since the republication of the Danish cartoons of Muhammad was allowed in the Netherlands. Today it removed the cartoon once again.

The Arab-European League is an Arab and Islamic lobby group based in the Netherlands and Belgium.