The Israeli Anti-Semitic Cartoons Contest (Hebrew language, Hebrew: תחרות קריקטורות אנטישמיות ישראלית) was initiated by two Israeli artists in response to the Muhammad cartoons controversy and the subsequent International Holocaust Cartoon Competition, "Holocaust Cartoon Competition" by the Iranian newspaper ''Hamshahri''. Illustrator Amitai Sandy announced the contest on the website of his Tel Aviv-based graphic arts company on February 14, 2006, stating, "We'll show the world we can do the best, sharpest, most offensive Jew hating cartoons ever published! No Iranian will beat us on our home turf!"
The ''Jerusalem Post'' reported Sandy as saying that his intention was to challenge bigotry by using humour. According to ''Haaretz'', within three days of the announcement of the contest Sandy was interviewed by more than thirty daily newspapers, as well as two television channels and a radio program broadcast on 450 local stations in the United States.
On April 6, the winner was announced on the contest homepage: "Fiddler on the Roof." It depicted a fiddler on the Brooklyn Bridge during the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center (1973–2001), World Trade Center.
Other common themes through the cartoons included Hegemony, world domination, the myth of Jews having horns, the Holocaust (and its Holocaust denial, denial), and the blood libel, all of which were familiar staples or topics of antisemitism. Many of those staples were antisemitic canard, canards as well.
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Israeli group announces anti-Semitic cartoons contest! Israeli antisemitic cartoons contest
a web-archive of the cartoon gallery
Editorial cartooning awards
Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
Israeli awards
Arts awards in Israel
Antisemitic works
Jewish comedy and humor
2006 in Israel
2006 in comics
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