Warrant for Genocide?
Subtitle: Israel and the Jews in Contemporary Arab and Western Cartoons
Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell
Published: February 12, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780853037521
Subjects: Comic book & cartoon art; Jewish Studies; Media studies; Social Science; Sociology
Description: "Antisemitic cartoons have long been rife in the Arab-Muslim media. The September 2001 Durban Conference against Racism, intended to denounce and combat racism in all its forms, also featured the distribution of antisemitic cartoons by an Arab organisation, yet this elicited no reaction from the delegates representing Western NGOs at the conference. This event set the author on a trail that revealed thousands of such drawings. In the name of anti-Zionism, Jews are daily depicted as sadistic and bloodthirsty monsters, solely interested in money and power. This return to anti-Jewish hatred is of a new order, in line with current trends - an Arab-Muslim form of antisemitism unexpectedly metamorphosed from the type of antisemitism traditionally linked with the Christian West." "By reproducing more than 400 of these cartoons taken from both the Arab and Western media, this book denounces the use of hatred in the media."--book jacket.