A vilifying cartoon portraying Jewish worshipers praying before the New York Stock Exchange has been declared the winner in Iran’s first annual International Wall Street Downfall Cartoon Festival on Monday.
Anti-Semitic Cartoon Wins Iranian Festival Prize
A vilifying cartoon portraying Jewish worshipers praying before the New York Stock Exchange has been declared the winner in Iran’s first annual International Wall Street Downfall Cartoon Festival on Monday.
The festival’s cartoon contest was reportedly held to demonstrate Iran’s solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement. The Iranian outlet Fars News co-sponsored the International Wall Street Downfall Cartoon Festival, to “help people in the United States take their message out to the world,” according to Radio Free Europe.
The Iranian government has come out in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement in its tensions between the US and the Western world. Police intervention in response to unruly Occupy protesters was cynically criticized by Iran after human rights organizations and the US denounced Iran’s inhumane treatment of anti-government protesters during the staged re-election of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009.
At least several of the cartoon entries were anti-Semitic as well as anti-American. The contest’s winner, Mahmod Mohammad Tabrizi, drew three ostensibly religious Jews praying towards Wall Street, which is depicted as Jerusalem’s Western Wall. Tabrizi was awarded five thousand Euros, the festival’s statue, and a letter of appreciation.
The cartoon from Oleksiy Kustovsky from Ukraine, who was awarded four thousand Euros as the second place winner, portrays a man who is hit by descending rocks as two men try to scale bags of American money.
The contest’s jury panel consisted of seven judges from several countries including Iran, Turkey, Poland, and Romania. The panel had selected the top ten winners and 99 finalists from a total pool of nearly 1,600 cartoons from around the world, including entries from the United States, Serbia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Russia, and China. The cartoons are currently displayed in Tehran and can be viewed on a Fars webpage associated with the festival.
In 2006 Iran organized a contest of cartoons mocking the Holocaust. A Moroccan illustrator was awarded the top prize at that event for depicting an image of Auschwitz behind Israel’s security fence. The co-sponsor of the Holocaust contest, Iranian newspaper Hamshahri, claimed that the event was held in order to test the Western world’s capacity for tolerance.
steve
But if someone prints a cartoon that is anti muslim, the world will riot and kill people for weeks
Yosy
Hashem Yirachem!
A good persian is a dead persian. Yemach Sh’mam!!
Ed Shindle
So this entitles Jews all over the world to do what the Muslims do… make a big stink about it and go on a killing spree eh?
Calm Down
I think its funny… If a Jew drew it there would be no backlash but since an Iranian did let’s go to town! Its just a lame cartoon (which granted made me snicker)stop giving it more significance than it deserves. Believe me if your concerned about Iranians opinions of Jews and Wall Street bankers this is the least of your issues.
Kinda Cute
I think it’s kinda cute, and unfortunately there is some truth to it in our times. If they want to make cartoons instead of killing people, that’s fine with me.
menachem mendel
your ego must be shallow……….like, just who cares what people think, when you know they are both nuts and evil…yoe get this because of your attitude about “other jews”.when you begin NOT to judge other jews and stop doing cult stuff ( i really am not in the mood to make a list ) hashem will “straighten you up” an stand by you…be well and stop judging others
The Truth Hurts?
Let me get this straight. Bernie Madoff.Should I list more? Jewish mothers are diluting milk to be able to feed their children cereal.Jewish kids are going to public schools because the parents can not afford tuition. Should I go on? I won’t even begin to talk about the prices of kosher food, meat, milk.
Jobs for frum yidden with families? Nobody cares. We suffer. We get put into ovens. What did we learn?. Oh, the one that dies with the most toys wins???!!! Yeah, we all want Moshiach.Don’t we? So what did we do different today that was excepable to Hashem, that really gave him nachus? Where do you think these guys, our enemies, come up with this stuff? Do you think everyone is blind? What, we are so perfect and wonderful? If we are honest, if we have a brain in our head, we ask Hashem to bring Moshiach to save us not just from those wanting to kill us, but from ourselves!!!
Hellooo??? Is there anybody in there?
Good Old Hypocracy- doesn-t get better
The best part is that the cartoon was created by a nation that would kill it’s own grandmother for cash. There are many examples in the muslim world. If you want to see people who worship money look no further than Dubai, probably the world’s most ostentatious display of lucre. I find that the people who are always assuming that other people have money and being all righteously resentful about it, are the ones who love money- just that it be transferred to their own pockets- without any hard work or effort, of course.
#3 shindle
It’s cowards like you that are a danger to the world. Yes, I believe that a Jew can and should ‘make a big stink about it’ as you so eloquently put it.
#3 are you on crack?
TO # 3 No one said we should go on a killing spree, however, if we did make a big stink (and I am not talking about killing or destroying) then we dont make it easy for them to do this type of thing. The worse thing you can do is remain silant, because they will twist it, in their minds to “since you didn’t say anything we thought it was ok”.
and on top of that your comment was so off the wall as to be bizzare.
I HOPE@OPTIMUM.NET
A GOOD JEW HATER IS A DEAD JEW HEATER,
I Accept the Criticism
The Iranian regime does not have good intentions, so let’s take them out of the picture. (Although, in truth, the Iranians didn’t create the cartoon, they only chose it.) Also, let’s set aside for a minute that most of the U.S. and the World are all about the money too. But is there any truth to the criticism contained in the drawing? How many Rebbes, Shluchim, Yeshiva principals, Mikubolim and stam “Frumeh Yidden” worship nothing but money? Enough to make this cartoon accurate.
#12 should speak only for himself.
You are correct to accept criticism that applies to yourself and try to change your own priorities, but speak for yourself. I’m not aware that ‘Many Rebbes, shluchim, yeshiva principles and mekubalim worship nothing but money.’ Do you generally make libelous allegations about ‘many’ people without providing factual proof to back up either the allegation or the amount of people involved?