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: An Israeli cartoonist is responding to Iran’s efforts to mock the Holocaust with an unconventional contest of his own: He’s asking Jewish artists to draw anti-Semitic cartoons themselves.

Amitai Sandarovich, a cartoonist for the Yediot Ahronot daily, said he came up with the idea for the competition after an Iranian newspaper launched a contest for cartoons about the Holocaust.

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Truthdig says:

We wonder: Is this sort of like African Americans reclaiming the N-word as their own?

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