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Fighting Anti-Semitism the Comic Way
(Jerusalem Post) Hadass Ben-Ari - Jerusalem Post cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen began his "Dry Bones" series in 1973 and it now appears in 40 North American papers. Kirschen founded an association called the Dry Bones Project a year ago, which aims to fight anti-Semitism by using humor and comics. "Anti-Semites are the people who want to kill us," he explains. "In the old days the lie would be 'the Jews have poisoned the wells.' Today, you'll find people saying 'the Jewish state has poisoned the Palestinian aquifers' - the same lie, but fixed up. The only way to get into these people's head and really change their viewpoint, I think, is through humor."