Delegitimizing Jews and Israel in Iran's International Holocaust Cartoon Contest.

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dc.contributor.authorJaspal, Rusien
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-09T10:48:32Z
dc.date.available2013-10-09T10:48:32Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.descriptionThe file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.en
dc.description.abstractIn 2006, the Iranian government-aligned newspaper Hamshahri sponsored The International Holocaust Cartoon Contest. The stated aim of the contest was to denounce “Western hypocrisy on freedom of speech,” and to challenge “Western hegemony” in relation to Holocaust knowledge. This government-backed initiative was a clear attempt to export the Iranian regime’s anti-Zionist agenda. Using qualitative thematic analysis and Social Representations Theory, this article provides an in-depth qualitative analysis of the cartoons submitted to the contest in order to identify emerging social representations of Jews and Israel. Three superordinate themes are outlined: (i) “Constructing the ‘Evil Jew’ and ‘Brutal Israel’ as a Universal Threat”; (ii) “Denying the Holocaust and Affirming Palestinian Suffering”; (iii) “Constructing International Subservience to ‘Nazi-Zionist’ Ideology”. Although the organizers of the International Holocaust Cartoon Contest claimed that their aims were anti-Zionist, this article elucidates the overtly anti- Semitic character of the contest and its cartoons. It is argued that the cartoons exhibit a distorted, one-sided version of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and of Jewish history, and may therefore shape viewers’ beliefs concerning Jews and Israel in fundamentally negative ways, with negative outcomes for intergroup relations and social harmony.en
dc.funderN/Aen
dc.identifier.citationJaspal, R. (2014). Delegitimizing Jews and Israel in Iran's International Holocaust Cartoon Contest. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 13 (2), pp. 167-189en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2014.919804
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2086/9148
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.projectidN/Aen
dc.publisherJournal of Modern Jewish Studiesen
dc.researchgroupSelf and Identity Research Groupen
dc.researchinstituteMedia Discourse Centre (MDC)en
dc.researchinstituteMary Seacole Research Centreen
dc.subjectanti-semitismen
dc.subjectanti-zionismen
dc.subjectpolitical cartoonsen
dc.subjectjewsen
dc.titleDelegitimizing Jews and Israel in Iran's International Holocaust Cartoon Contest.en
dc.typeArticleen

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