1. A Jewish-looking teacher, wearing a trenchcoat and apparently nothing else, is standing in front of a class of nubile young women. He is saying "Now, how many of you 70 young virgins want an A in this class?" The caption reads: "Why so few Jews become suicide bombers."
2. A Christian priest has just murdered an Arab and ripped out his heart. Drooling with lust, he is handing the heart over to a Jewish harlot with enormous hooters labeled "The Holocaust."
3. A stereotypical Jewish mother is teacher her daughter how to cook. She is saying, "The secret ingredient, bubbeleh, is a little Christian child's blood so the matzoh balls can stick together!"
4. The cover from Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree" has been altered. The little boy is standing under the tree, but instead of leaves, money is falling into his hands. And the caption reads, "And the tree said "Come, boy, come and cut down my branches, build a cross and crucify the Lord."
5. Hitler and Gandhi and Martin Luther King are in heaven, looking at a newspaper. The headline reads "Jews Slaughter More Palestinians." Gandhi and King are saying, "If we'd only known, Adolf, we would have helped you exterminate them."
6. A drawing of Moses, with a tablet. The caption says, "Moses gives the Jews the special, secret Eleventh Commandment." On the tablet, it says, "P.S., Don't forget to control the media."
1. These cartoons are: a. Horrible and offensive. I am shocked you are describing them here. b. Offensive, though some might be funny or politically meaningful. c. Perfectly okay.
2. As it happens, these cartoons are entries into a "antisemitic cartoon contest" run by an Israeli cartoonists' society. The contest was announced after an Iranian paper said it was going to run a Holocaust-denial cartoon contest, to protest the drawing of Muhammad cartoons by western papers. Indeed, most of the people drawing the cartoons described above are Jews. Does this change your thinking at all? a. In this context, I think they are fine as satire. No apologies needed. b. They are defensible in context, but still deeply offensive and troubling. c. That doesn't change anything. They are simply inexcusable.
3. Which of these is "funniest"? 1 2 3 4 5 6
4. Which of these is most effective at what it is trying to do? 1 2 3 4 5 6