The Israeli Anti-Semitic Cartoons Contest ( Hebrew: תחרות קריקטורות אנטישמיות ישראלית) was initiated by two

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

i artists in response to the

Muhammad cartoons controversy The ''Jyllands-Posten'' Muhammad cartoons controversy (or Muhammad cartoons crisis, da, Muhammedkrisen) began after the Danish newspaper ''Jyllands-Posten'' published 12 editorial cartoons on 30 September 2005, most of which depicted Muhamma ...

and the subsequent "Holocaust Cartoon Competition" by the

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ian newspaper ''

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''. Illustrator Amitai Sandy announced the contest on the website of his

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

-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 ''

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'', 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

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. 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

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on the World Trade Center. Other common themes through the cartoons included world domination, the myth of Jews having horns, the

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...

(and its denial), and the

blood libel Blood libel or ritual murder libel (also blood accusation) is an antisemitic canardTurvey, Brent E. ''Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis'', Academic Press, 2008, p. 3. "Blood libel: An accusation of ritual mu ...

, all of which were familiar staples or topics of antisemitism. Many of those staples were 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 {{comics-stub he:פרשת קריקטורות מוחמד#התגובות לקריקטורות