Cartoongate: The Israeli-sponsored anti-Semitic cartoon contest
This just keeps getting stranger:
In response to the Danish newspaper doing an anti-Islamic political cartoon contest, an Iranian newspaper decided to push the boundaries of free speech (well, sort of) by doing Holocaust cartoons contest. In response, now, an Israeli comic book company has decided to show that, when it comes to anti-Semitic humor, no one can beat the Jews.
“We’ll show the world we can do the best, sharpest, most offensive Jew hating cartoons ever published!” said Zusman, and Sandy added: “No Iranian will beat us on our home turf!”
The contest has been announced today on the www.boomka.org website, and the initiators accept submissions of cartoons, caricatures and short comic strips from people all over the world. The deadline is Sunday March 5, and the best works will be displayed in an Exhibition in Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Sandy and Zusman are now in the process of arranging sponsorships of large organizations, and promise lucrative prizes for the winners, including of course the famous Matzo-bread baked with the blood of Christian children.
Fresh Air (“jazz hands!”) has interviewed one of the organizers.
The world is getting extra-nuts recently.
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Oh, so NOW you pay attention to this story. 🙂 Kidding! Yeah, I’m sure you’ve heard too about Islamic countries renaming Danishes as Muhammed cakes, and that some American cartoonists are thinking about entering the Iranian contest.
Comment by Mimic — February 26, 2006 @ 7:37