The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) labeled a syndicated cartoon by Pat Oliphant appearing today in newspapers across the country and on the Internet as “hideously anti-Semitic” because of its use of Nazi-like imagery and hateful evocation of the Jewish Star of David.
The cartoon portrays a headless, jack-booted figure marching in a goose step with a sword in one hand and pushing a Star of David on a wheel with the other. The Jewish Star has fangs and is chasing after a woman carrying a child, labeled “Gaza.”
Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement:
Pat Oliphant’s outlandish and offensive use of the Star of David in combination with Nazi-like imagery is hideously anti-Semitic. It employs Nazi imagery by portraying Israel as a jack-booted, goose-stepping headless apparition. The implication is of an Israeli policy without a head or a heart.
Israel’s defensive military operation to protect the lives of its men, women and children who are being continuously bombarded by Hamas rocket attacks has been turned on its head to show the victims as heartless, headless aggressors.
(YWN Desk – NYC)
Join the official YWN WhatsApp status
4 Responses
Ribbono Shel Olam, what is considered regular political cartoonery in the Arab countries has come here. Please, please, please, send Moshiach as soon as possible so we are able to live in safety and peace.
#1,
I hope G-d reads the comments on Yeshiva World News.
This is nothing new. Oliphant has been doing this sort of antisemitic stuff for at least 20 years that I remember.
The only way to have safety and peace as well as Mashiach is to return to Israel. Rav Chaim of Volozin learned from the events of Joseph that it is safer for a Jew to be in a pit of vipers and scorpions in Israel than to be in the palace of the king outside of Israel.