Is this anti-semitism?

ha

Regular Gargamel or Sexy Gargamel?

http://www.rp.pl/artykul/948550.html

translation: http://tinyurl.com/c5j9s7t

Steve Bell in the Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/27/hungarian-rightwinger-call-survey-jews

Yeah that one doesn't really need the question mark.

WHAT THE FUCK HUNGARY YOU DIDN'T KILL ENOUGH OF US ALREADY????

zydki on sale from hala mirowska (warsaw):

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/432276_10101534573783639_1325961062_n.jpg

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5guWyiarF7Ahem2pqnlP61ATrZ6nA?docId=CNG.1f5230b87c34eb7ef95150ba96d4cfb3.941

i have no clue what to make of that except that jyllands posten is well known for a right-wing anti-muslim pro-israel paper. would be interested in reading more actual reporting on the rise of anti-semitism in denmark in scandinavia

yes me too esp cuz i would hesitate calling a protest outside the israeli embassy an "anti-semitic incident"

i know that sweden has seen a big rise in far-right nationalist political parties, generally anti-immigrant i would guess also anti-semitic (though maybe also pro-israel? you can never tell with these jokers)

ya its all a depressing clusterfuck

“We have had a Zionist-controlled Hollywood, a Zionist-controlled news media that is the conduit to all of this violence...this imagery into every home in America, and so you wonder why there is a culture of violence? It is because it comes from the Jews in Hollywood. That is where the conduit of violence comes from,” Phoenix-based Mike Harris said on Tuesday.

http://www.presstv.com/detail/2012/12/19/279024/zionists-create-culture-of-violence-in-us/

The guy who blamed Sandy Hook on the Mossad ^

The comments are a joy:

I've read most of the story behind the slayings at Newtown.There is a deliberate attempt to hide what really went wrong to warrant the murder of the younglings.The zionist would stop at nothing to kill and defile anything that does not favour them.Now, as part of a calculated evil mischief,they want to deprive Americans the right to own and keep arms for self defence.This is because they want to punish America for the losses suffered by Israel at the 8 days false flag war on Gaza and the "loss of face" at the UN General Assembly.These people are definitely evil.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2012/12/polands-past?fsrc=rss

"younglings," ugh, as a Star Wars fan I apologize for this

yeah as i read that all i cld think was SECURITY HOLOGRAM

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-filipino/world/01/05/13/hitler-statue-holocaust-site-stirs-controversy

Hmm:

Poland's chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, said he was consulted on the installation's placement ahead of time and did not oppose it because he saw value in the artist's attempt to try to raise moral questions by provoking viewers.

He said he was reassured by curators who told him there was no intention of rehabilitating Hitler but rather of showing that evil can present itself in the guise of a "sweet praying child."

"I felt there could be educational value to it," said Schudrich, who also wrote an introduction to the exhibition's catalogue in which he says art can "force us to face the evil of the world."

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-filipino/world/01/05/13/hitler-statue-holocaust-site-stirs-controversy

Seems to be the same Rabbi.

Well at least he's consistent.

http://forward.com/articles/168948/german-travelogue-unveils-stubborn-anti-semitism/

good news, everyone!

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2013/01/14/3116806/jew-is-a-new-word-for-cool-in-dutch-linguist-says

http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-to-demand-apology-for-anti-semitic-netanyahu-cartoon/

Well is that cartoon anti-semitic? Dubious allegation imo. It's blunt but I could imagine Scarfe drawing a similarly gory image a few years ago with Tony Blair or George Bush.

bibi and his big nose are building a wall w/ the blood of arabs. can't imagine what's anti-semitic about that.

http://blog.camera.org/archives/2013/01/which_one_of_these_antisemitic.html

Like the Israeli cartoonist in the article says, Bibi's nose isn't that big compared to your standard Scarfe caricature. And what's anti-semitic about a wall or blood? (in this context, not in the case of blood libel obviously) The Eternal Jew poster that the blogger claims Scarfe "emulates" doesn't look like it at all.

lol ok

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/54/Dave_Brown%27s_Goya_Ariel_Sharon.jpg

What's wrong? Never seen an anti-Semitic caricature of an Israeli politician before?

http://commentisfreewatch.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/steve-bell-16-12-2012-0021.jpg

Nothing to see here...

Don't see the original cartoon as anti-Semitic myself.

Cartoonists should avoid drawing noses on Israeli politicians to avoid this kind of controversy though.

Don't worry about it.

http://cdn.timesofisrael.com/uploads/2013/01/TIMES-CARTOON-195x293.jpg

I particularly like how the blood is dripping out of the cracks of the wall. Such attention to detail.

every time this happens they say they would do the same for putin or whatever, which might be true but is always oblivious to the overdetermination, that where israel is concerned there is always a litany of old antisemitic tropes produced by the same 'neutral' imagery

"in this context, not in the case of blood libel obviously"

why not? that's the exact association that makes it look antisemitic.

They should probably stop brutalising Palestinians maybe

some of the responses here boggle the fuck out of me, and then I remember:

OMG I WANT THIS AMAZING RONALDINHO BOTTLE OPENER

it's (accidentally?) quite evocative of this:

When astrologers told the Pharaoh that an Israelite male child born at that time would grow up to overthrow Pharaoh, Pharaoh decided to kill all the male children born to the Israelites. He ordered them thrown into the Nile River.

Pharaoh was stricken with a skin disease. His doctors told him that only baths of blood could cure his disease. So Pharaoh bathed in the blood of Israelite babies.

When the subjugation was at its worst, the Egyptians forced upon the Israelites an unreasonable quota of bricks. If the Israelites failed to fill the quota of bricks, their children were killed in front of them, and the bodies were mixed into the brick-mortar.

They should probably stop brutalising Palestinians maybe

yeah! stop brutalizing the palestinians, jews and we'll stop running anti-semitic comics in the uk press!

Please continue to tie your support of the Palestinian nationalism movement to your support of anti-semitic comics on ILX. You're definitely doing your argument a service.

http://www.jonathanlynn.com/images/gallery/yes_minister_title2.jpg

scarfe's end titles for yes minister/yes prime minister

Or they won't be perceived to be anti-Semitic because of ya know caricatures

it's not like these shitty cartoons are of any political value

like if someone tells steve bell that depicting benyamin netanyahu as the puppetmaster behind the uk foreign office is not merely politically fatuous but also antisemitic, and he no longer gets to do shitty cartoons about israel, the world will still be the same

Mordy, posting other cartoons that are anti-semitic doesn't prove that this one is. That may be your personal response but it's not a clear-cut case. This Haaretz writer puts a strong case for the defence:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/four-reasons-why-u-k-cartoon-of-netanyahu-isn-t-anti-semitic-in-any-way.premium-1.496880

xp nostormo, are you seriously saying that no cartoon critical of Israel is allowed to include blood because, in a different, specific context, blood is used as an anti-semitic image? Should this be the only case where the depiction of blood is not allowed at all?

should cartoonists avoid blood when depicting jewish subjects? honest q

should cartoonists avoid apes when depicting black presidents? honest q.

Wouldn't want to offend Bibi