The Israeli Anit-Semitic Cartoons Contest
Now this is an excellent response to all the "freedom of press" vs. "religious offense" insanity we saw the last months.
Actor Eyal Zusman (30) and graphic artist Amitai Sandy (29) from Tel Aviv launched a new anti-Semitic cartoons contest - this time drawn by Jews themselves!
“We’ll show the world we can do the best, sharpest, most offensive Jew hating cartoons ever published!” said Sandy “No Iranian will beat us on our home turf!”
By now, already over a hundred Jewish artists from all over the world have submitted cartoons, which are published on the website Boomka.org.
The message given by this mission is a bright one: freedom of speech should not spare religious dogmatisms, but it should stop, where it spreads hate against a specific ethnic or religious community. Rabbi Marc Gellman put this in brilliant words a month ago:
Humor that is self-effacing is fine as long as the member is of the faith/race/ethnos, but when outsiders tell the joke, it is usually insulting or at least inappropriate. As a Jew, I can freely tell the joke about how the Yeshiva University crew team always lost to Harvard because the Harvard crew team had eight guys rowing and only one guy shouting (pause for laughter). If a gentile told that joke, I would … plotz (a Yiddish word meaning: to faint at a Jewish joke being told by a gentile). It is just not funny or in good taste or even in bad taste–it is just wrong–for anyone to insult other people’s core identity and then hide behind freedom of the press. Yes, we in the West have the right to say any stupid thing we want, but when people get really pissed off about it, we can’t hide or blame them because they can’t take a joke.
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