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The '''Israeli Anti-Semitic Cartoons Contest''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: תחרות קריקטורות אנטישמיות ישראלית) was a cartoon contest initiated by two [[Israel]]i artists in response to the [[Muhammad cartoons controversy]] and the subsequent [[International Holocaust Cartoon Competition|Holocaust cartoon competition]] by the [[Iran]]ian 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!"<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jpost.com/Israel/TA-artist-takes-on-Iranian-cartoons|title=TA artist takes on Iranian cartoons|date=16 February 2006|access-date=2018-12-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629144109/http://www.jpost.com/Israel/TA-artist-takes-on-Iranian-cartoons|archive-date=2017-06-29|url-status=live}}</ref>

The ''[[Jerusalem Post]]'' reported Sandy as saying that his intention was to challenge bigotry by using humour.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} According to ''[[Haaretz]]'', within three days of the announcement of the contest, Sandy was interviewed by more than thirty daily [[newspaper]]s, as well as two television channels and a radio program broadcast on 450 local stations in the [[United States]].{{citation needed|date=January 2015}}

On April 6, 2006, 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]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Broder|first=Henryk M.|date=2006-04-21|title=Jewish Caricature Contest: Kosher Anti-Semites|language=en|work=Der Spiegel|url=https://www.spiegel.de/international/jewish-caricature-contest-kosher-anti-semites-a-412390.html|access-date=2022-10-20|issn=2195-1349}}</ref>

Other common themes through the cartoons included [[Hegemony|world domination]], the myth of Jews having [[horn (anatomy)|horn]]s, [[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.

==References==
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==External links==
{{Portal|Israel|Comics}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060223195444/http://boomka.org/blog/?p=1 Israeli group announces anti-Semitic cartoons contest!]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060427183955/http://boomka.org/blog/wp-content/plugins/falbum/wp/album.php?album=72057594067999377  Israeli antisemitic cartoons contest], a web-archive of the cartoon gallery

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[[Category:Jewish comedy and humor]]
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