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The above is a cartoon by Pat Oliphant that is currently running in some of America’s most popular newspapers. 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.”
Pat Oliphant’s use of the Star of David in combination with Nazi-like imagery is hideously anti-Semitic. It falsely employs Nazi imagery to portray Israel as a jack-booted, goose-stepping headless apparition, and goes beyond-the-pale of “dissent” and regular ‘criticism”
Welcome to the United States 2009! You aren’t reading about these widespread and mainstream anti-Semitic incidents in a history book regarding Germany…this is your world, and it is taking place now! I wouldn’t be shocked if we soon hear of “Palestine”-American Solidarity rallies that fill Madison Square Garden! One would expect this type of disgraceful cartoon from an insignificant Neo-Nazi publication, or something similar, but in today’s America it is run widely in the New York Times and The Washington Post, among others.
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DON’T JUST SIT THERE….DO SOMETHING!
~Contact Universal Press Syndicate, which runs Oliphant’s cartoons:
Lee Salem, President and Editor, Universal Press Syndicate, 1130 Walnut Street Kansas City, MO 64106-2109 816-581-7301, lsalem@amuniversal.com.
~Contact The New York Times.
~Contact The Washington Post
~Contact Yahoo News.
~Contact Slate.
**However, remember that you will get more with honey than vinegar! Let them know you are angry, but be polite about it. It is also important that you make it clear that your are upset, not because they criticized Israel, but because this cartoon was grossly flawed, offensive, not factually based, etc., by presenting Israel as Nazis. The cartoon doesn’t reflect the truth that Israel strained to protect civilian life in Gaza, nor the true war crimes committed (practically daily) by Hamas – such as targeting civilians and their use of human shields.
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Pamela Geller from Atlas Shrugs adds that Cafepress Store is selling a pin reading: “it was wrong in Auschwitz, it is wrong in Gaza”. I am told that Cafepress is actually pretty specific about what they allow people to sell on their site. Thus, they either don’t know about this, or find the message acceptable. I hope that it is the former and not that this is just another step towards normalizing blatant anti-semitism.
Atlas Shrugs suggests that you contact Cafepress, and let them know how you feel about their selling that offensive product.
You can get more of their contact info, see a picture of the button, and learn more about the story at Atlas Shrugs.
Tags: Cartoons, Civilians, Gaza, Hamas, Hate Speech, Israel, Media bias, nazis
This is horrible, and you see more and more of this everyday. What was once completely shameful is now commonplace.
I’d be very concerned if I were Jewish.
I am speechless.
2. Anastasia
I’m not. This doesn’t surprise me one bit. I imagine it is very similar to how German anti-Semitism was spread among the essentially good, intelligent, and learned German people.
The National socialists didn’t tell them outright that they were going to enslave, then attempt to murder an entire people, and many others….they made it seem logical and reasonable through many years of continuous Anti-Semitism, propaganda, confusion, and lies.
Anti-Semitism in National Socialist Germany was not a fringe lunatic movement, but was a mainstream ideology spread from the ivory towers of Universities, national newspapers, hospitals, scientists, doctors, lawyers, upper and lower classes, and of course political parties.
One should not forget that people like Theodore Hertzl warned of the wave of Anti-Semitism washing over Europe as early as the 1800s. The actual War wasn’t until late 1939.
Can you give us a link for the Washington Post? (Okay, okay. I’m lazy!)
The office next door to where I work subscribes to both the NYT and WaPo. I know a few people there and will suggest they contact these papers. It might be extra helpful for a subscriber to do so.
Hertzl was accused of being an alarmist, no? Why, Europe was becoming more Enlightened and progressive every day!
4 & 5 Anastasia
I have added Washington Post, Slate, and Yahoo News contact info. All of which (among others) ran this cartoon.
As for Hertzl, yes he was long ignored and considered an alarmist. Although he is the most famous, he wasn’t the only one however.
And they want us to bail out these failing rags?
I doubt any of these useful idiots have even heard of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, or look at how HamAss or the Hezbo’s salute or march.
Such dangerous ignorance certainly deserves a response.
Thanks for the info.
Where are the Leaders of the Jewish American Community on this? I’m not Jewish but this pisses me off. They have gotten away with Catholic Bashing, Evangelical Bashing and now its the Jews turn. However Islam is never insulted. Maybe Catholics, Jews and Evangelicals need to start protesting.
Rodan
Some Jewish American groups have responded to this. HOWEVER, the Conservative instinct to wait for organizations, or others to pick up the mantle for us is one thing that differentiates us from the Left, and other groups that have been successful, including the Islamists.
The Islamists don’t wait for their organizations to do the work for them. They are upset about cartoons, so they go out in the streets and MAKE the organization/Government take notice.
The major organizations have their role, but WE THE PEOPLE do too!
Further in the “it could happen here” file:
Americans Future Leaders Hate Israel More Than Hamas Does
http://www.hudsonny.org/2009/03/on-campus-the-pro-palestinians-real-agenda.php
Why cant people just criticize Israeli policy if they don’t agree with it, without being revoltingly anti-Semitic?
And to do this when Gaza is run by a terrorist group. This goes way beyond disgusting.
One of the reasons a**holes like this guy continue this crap is because of it’s effect on many Jewish folks. Many Liberal Jews agree with this nonsense, or react to it by trying to sympathize with the enemy.
Until an overwhelming majority of Jews in the world stop blaming themselves for this and embrace the wonderful heritage God gave them, this will continue in this country.
Jews need to love their children more than the children taught to hate them. Israel is always going to be hated, the prophets foretold this. If you’re going to be hated, you better damn well be feared. Israel’s half-assed defense measures in Gaza and Lebanon haven’t done them much good. Neither has providing these scum with food, water, electric and medical.
Israel needs to treat all Palis like the enemies they are.
11. Bar
That is exactly the point now isn’t it? To rephrase, why can’t they JUST criticize the policies of Israel? It is what they claim they are doing isn’t it?
I believe their manner of “criticizing” Israel evidences and exposes their underlying Anti-semitism.
They hold for Israel a hatred and anger that they have for nothing and noone else? Why could that be? Does Sudan not murder thousands more each day? Are people in Africa not living in ACTUAL poverty? Is Saudi Arabia not restricting the rights of their citizens worse? Does Jordan not restrict the livelihoods of their “palestinians” more than Israel?
They all do……yet it is Israel whom they concentrate on. But they don’t’ stop there. They don’t say “Israel really should be nicer to the Palestinians, and give them more food” but instead jump to hyper-hyperbole and reach into the most disgusting depths to compare the victims of the Nazis to the Nazis themselves. This is not simply “dissent” or “criticism”…this is cruelty!
I want to know when the world will wake up to the fact that they are wrong about Israel, and it is in fact the Arabs that ensure that the conflict continues.
Did you all see this?: Olmert: I Offered PA More Than Ever.
(when everything is not enough!?)
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130628
Yes, we the people do have our role -- in fact, our responsibility. The notion that one has to be Jewish to be “upset” misses the point. Each day’s news brings more examples of the growing “thug society” saying and doing unspeakable things. ACORN bus tours designed to intimidate the innocent, college students with the gaul to opine that, “Israel has no right to exist”, official US emissaries presuming to direct Israeli strategies regarding self preservation and on and on. Damn right it’s time to for every civilized person to stand up and be heard. To stand up and do something before we have to arm ourselves in order to have any hope of turning these trends around.
This political cartoon bilge is worse than the Ol’ Mo khartoons. Ol’ Mo is long dead (and muslims are violent), while Israel is alive and, as you state Wrath, born of the Holocaust.
I really would like to know what people would do if someone were intermittently rocketing their homes, killing a few here and there.
The double standard regarding Israel is what makes me Livid (with a capital ‘L’). Terrori --oops, insurgents and freedom fighters = good while Israel = Nazis. No one ever seems to mention Palis have more rights in Israel than Jews have in any country within Islamia.
I remember when Lebanon erupted in 2006, and Bush was in Scotland. In an unguarded moment overheard, when asked what should be done to stop the fighting, Bush said something like the Palis ‘should stop blowing shit up.’ That should be written on the aborted Palestine-land’s tombstone (the only time I would actually agree with abortion). But as we see, Planned Parenthood (the UN) is for the abortion of a Pali state, while Israel, at this point in time, is not. There’s a ‘sanctity of life’ comment somewhere in that last sentence.
Ooo…lookie what I got in my email today.
The Bean Spiller,
A new motto: 1.0: Now better with spam.
The Bean Spiller,
That email sounds threadworthy.
19. No2liberals
From where I sit, it would need verification first.
Wrath
I guess the Nazis massacring 6 million Jews is not enough for these haters.
6 Million Jews, I cant get over that number.
I cant imagine how offensive it is the Jew to be equated to a Nazi.
When in reality the Nazis are the freaking Islamic Terrorists.
Not really, but in a way its too bad the Jews aren’t killing Islamic terrorists on the same scale the Nazis did, there wouldn’t be any more than a handful of Islamic terrorist left.
21. Bar
wow.
Ok, first as evil as the Islamists are, they have not even come close to reaching the level of the Nazis. As much hatred I have for Islamists, and their similarities to the acts and intents of National Socialism, THEY ARE NOT Nazis (yet!)
Second, a huge NO, to even your joking suggestion that the Jews should be doing to the Islamists what the Nazis did to the Jews. Fighting the Islamists; YES, killing 6 million + of their innocents purposefully, etc.; NO, NO, NO!
it’s real
ya’ll admins are getting an email from me right now.
Just don’t hat tip me. I wouldn’t want my email to get uber spammed from those who might not like the bean spiller.
Wrath,
You are correct.
Once again, we are quickly moving towards the time when the whole world will come to hate the Jew and wish it destroyed. And they will attempt it, then comes the closing of this age and the coming of Messiah, the King of the Ages.
Wrath
My anger is burning pretty bad, but I did not mean it in the way you took it, I mean only the “Islamic terrorists” not all or just any Moslems, unless they are terrorists. I don’t see Islamic terrorists as innocent.
Now I think its wrong but, I can make a good case that anyone Moslem or otherwise living in Gaza is not innocent, they voted the terrorist government into power and they also allow them to stay in power and they allow them a hiding place. Again I think its wrong and I do not advocate killing innocent civilians of any religion or non-religion. Just as I deplore Islamic Terrorists or any terrorist killing Jewish civilians or any civilians.
In WW2 we firebombed Japanese cities, we killed more Japanese civilians in those firebombings then with both atomic bombs. We also firebombed German cities, targeting only civilians.
Now with the advanced technology we have today I do not think we have to resort to those tactics. But the only way to win at war is to break their will to fight, how that is accomplished with Islamic terrorist we have yet to discover.
Again I do not advocate killing innocent civilians of any religion or non-religion.
So, if I see this cartoon correctly, the jews are the new nazis? Does that mean they are going to exterminate themselves?
Oh…… waaaaaaaaiiiiittttt…… the jews are the nazis and the pallies are the jews.
but the pallies keep trying to ‘wipe the jews into the sea’
so really the pallies are the nazis that the jews are and the jews are the jews which is the pallies.
oh crap, I’ve gone cross-eyed.
How about this.
Piss on the pallies, near daily terrorist attacks against a country that keeps giving you free stuff like money, power, aid, LAND, etc….. you are not a victim, you are the aggressor and ISRAEL is the victim.
The left hates the jews now just like their SOCIALIST predecessor, Hitler, did. In fact, the only things the left hates more is straight white conservative males and Capitalists.
Lance
The hatred of the supplicants has clouded the reason of the left who despise the Jew as well, if not better.
Even those who try to think clearly about the outrages we face today bury themselves in conundrums of their own making. Islamic terrorists represent evil, but not so much evil as Nazis… not yet. Today’s technology supports “surgical” war making, yet the only way to win a war is to break the enemy’s will to fight. Foolishly, we pride ourselves on being so sophisticated and nuanced. We refuse to recognize the abundantly clear lessons of the “limited wars” of the last fifty years.
The Islamic terrorists are willing, even eager, to engage eternally in their effort to dominate the world by any means they can support. They have proved repeatedly that they are willing to risk the losses of any given day, so long as they are able to return and take up the fight later. They count on having more determination and persistence than those they oppose. The only response that will work to end the chaos and destruction they produce is a devastating one. Harry Truman demonstrated that with an enemy that was stronger in terms of armament but no less patient and no less determined. If we ignore the lesson he provided, we do so at our own peril. We might be better off to surrender now.
It’s ironic that Charles Johnson is giving his back once again to the Jew while he mocks those that believe Him to be the Creator.
tsk tsk tsk
Does anyone have a wiki account?
The Pat Oliphant wiki page says that this cartoon upset “american Jews”. I would like someone to change it to say something to the affect of “it offended Americans”, or “it offended those who remember the holocaust” etc.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Oliphant)
I hate when they turn this into a “Jewish issue” only, when many here are upset and NOT JEWISH.
I fail to see a difference between the ideology of the Islamic terrorists and the Nazis. Both believed that elimination of the Jews was/is the fundamental solution to there problems.
The Islamic terrorists just do not have the industrial might or the organization the Nazis had.
When WW2 started and the US got involved we refused to carpet bomb cities.
Germany did not have that issue, they freely bombed British cities targeting civilians during the Blitz. Only later in the war did we change our ideas and started bombing German cities. The idea being we could reduce the German population by 1/3 or at least leave most of them homeless and much less willing to fight.
In operation Gomorrah we bombed the German city of Hamburg, starting on July 24, 1943 and continuing until August 3.
Now neither Germany or Japan could wage an effective war without the civilian population that enabled the government. The same goes for Gaza.
Again: I do not advocate targeting civilians, but as history has show sometimes we may not have a choice.
As its has been said “war is hell.”
#10- Wrath--
The author states that the vast majority of anti-Israeli fools and agitators on campus are not Palis nor even foreign. Likewise with the fine professors who teach them what to believe.
Looks like all that Saudi money poured into academia has paid off handsomely.
#31-Wrath— AMEN. This is NOT a Jewish issue. It’s not even an American issue. This is an offense against Truth and decency.
This is an offense against Truth and decency.
No, it is a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.
#30-Song--
There are many, many reasons why I view the leftist attack on “fundamentalist” Christianity with dismay. One of those many reasons is that I believe the demonization of the “fundies” is meant to marginalize the most solidly pro-Israel group in America. I sense a growing party-line that dismisses all support of Israel that has any Biblical connection as being equivalent to a dangerous “religious fanaticism” that will be equated to Islamofascism. This marginalization will pertain to both Bible-clingers and Orthodox Jews. Just my opinion.
What savage said.
Sorry for my crazy war tangent, this stuff gets me hopping mad.
#35 savage
You are correct. That cartoon is just sick.
I wasn’t a fan of the Mo’ cartoons either, but at least with those, I understood the artist’s point.
Not all terrorists are Muslim, and all Muslims are certainly not terrorists, but most of the terrorists today ARE Muslim.
To portray Jews as Nazis exterminating the Gazans in the same way they themselves were exterminated under Hitler is just insanity. Israelis continually bend over backwards for the Palestinians and the UN, and what to they get for it? Demonized, for being too hard on the ‘poor, struggling people’ who continue to support regimes that launches rockets at civilian populations, hide and idolize terrorists, and send suicide squads after prominent Jews worldwide (like in Mumbai).
/absolutely disgusting
the left has won, they are so deeply rooted in all the important institutions the world over, i cant see how its ever going to be different.
we have got to hit bottom and then some before the masses see the error of this modern life.
personally i think song and dance is right, and we are at the start of the time of judgement.
We appear to be living through the rise of a National Socialist USA. A coming together of the government and big business. Curently the US government is showing Wall Street who is boss. After the lesson you will see Wall Street and government partnership of the elite and the decent in National Socialist hell. There are many flavors of socialism and it appears that it’s the National Socialist model being warmed up for America by the USA’s own demagog …The One … Obama.
Vale the USA!
Right when Michelle Obama first became proud of our country, I started becoming ashamed of it.
The khartoon, to me, represents poisonous propaganda inculcating in the masses a hatred of the ‘wrong’ groups of people, as determined by some left-wing cabal. We are bombarded with lies and falsehoods daily presented to us as facts (like fauxtography). The end result of such propaganda is the masses are being desensitized to not questioning modern pogroms against “the other.” In fact, they are creating the very atmosphere in which such pogroms will thrive (ACORN hounding AIG employees at their homes). First the Jews, then the Christians, then the melanin-challenged. There can be no other explanation. Falling back on my History education, we’ve seen this scenario played out a thousand times before, and every time with bloody results.
The Obama Administration is piling up the tinder, while holding the box of matches in their hands, ready to light the conflagration at a moment’s notice. While that moment hasn’t arrived just yet, those with perspicacity know it is coming. It is only a matter of time, of when is the right moment. The only question is how bad will it get, and can we survive to rebuild from whatever’s left.
As I’ve read before from posters elsewhere, I have the sinking feeling this is what it felt like in 1930′s Germany. A few saw Hitler in a realistic light, but could do nothing as the masses were indoctrinated into the Hitler cult-of-personality. We see the same beginnings with the Obama cult-of-personality, of how he can do no wrong, and how anything bad that does happen is the failure of those who work for him, not the Dear Reader himself. Obama’s played that game beautifully with the false outrage over AIG bonuses, while taking no responsibility for those bonuses, or even admitting that he knew about them.
The man constantly campaigns, takes time to fill out an NCAA bracket on TV, yet cannot find the time to fill out his Cabinet, nor stay in the Oval Office long enough to put in a full day’s work (affirmative-action entitlement at its worst). And we’ve already been told, over and over (including from the Grate One himself), that the financial downturn is not Obama’s fault, but the fault of the previous administration, and that Obama can’t fix things because because he can’t create a Cabinet because of the overly-aggressive vetting process by Congress. In most Germans’ minds, Hitler remained blameless for the outrages of the German Government (until the war was brought home to them), just as many in the the Lubyanka wrote letters to Stalin pleading their cases because he couldn’t possibly know and approve of what his minions were doing.
I honestly do not know where we as a Country are heading, but I know I am not looking forward to the journey. I look at the Stimulus Package as being the first of Obama’s Enabling Acts, and we know exactly where the Enabling Act led. From Wiki (not the best source, but right in this case): “The formal name of the Enabling Act was Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich,” or in English: “Law to Remedy the Distress of the People and the Nation.” Sounds awefully familiar.
Someone is putting all the blame on the socialists in Germany for the holocaust but that is not the whole truth, the holocaust could not have happened unless you had lutherans (reformed catholics) or catholics (the continuation of the Roman empires religion with some Christian covering).
These teachings in themselves are anti-jewish, they’ve always been.
These people having been spoonfed jew hatred from their priests whether lutheran, roman catholic, presbyterian or any other type of protestant (reformed roman catholicism).
Look at what Mr.Luther (or Luder as I like to call him, those that know swedish knows what a luder is) had to say about the jews:
“In sum, they are the devil’s children, damned to Hell…” — Martin Luther
the teaching is straight out of Rome and Rome is straight out of the pits of hell with it’s idolatry, hatred of God’s people, hatred of God’s church (trying to make themselves out as the Chuch), their false Jesus etc. etc. there’s so much that unless spiritually blinded people couldn’t really fall for their truly retarded false teachings.
Luther brought that teaching out with him from Rome when the left.
Roman Catholicism is with it’s Replacement Theology both anti Jew and anti Christian, they’ve effectively said they are the new Jews and that Jews failed being the People of God (talk about a retarded lie). So no wonder Catholics, Protestants, Socialists, Muslims and other groups have tried to wipe out God’s people, if they could then they could prove the Bible wrong (but praise the Lord Jesus Christ they will NEVER wipe out the jews, they will come close but these devils are prophecied to burn in hell).
You cannot disregard the hundreds of years that the Roman Catholic institution persecuted both Jews and Bible Believing Christians, burning them at stakes, cut them off with the sword, banished them etc..
That’s all there is to it, and that comes from worshiping idols which God says will make you blind, deaf and dumb (Psalms 115:2-8 and 135:15-18) and indeed all Roman Catholics I’ve ever met have been both deaf, blind and dumb.
Hard Nuts for Catholic Apologists
http://www.wayoflife.org/database/hardnuts.html
This is an old battle. Much older than socialism, much older than islam.
It is the Babylonian lies that the Catholic institution is based upon.
Islam being based on the same core fonudation is also jewhaters.
This is not very strange for those that have studied the roots of the filthy devilish religions and their core doctrines, unfortunately most people have not, most people are truly ignorant about basically everything and will get hostile and try to kill you for telling them what’s up.
And here’s a documentary for you good folks:
A woman rides the beast [about the Roman Catholic religion]
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2989771338920955977
Good Grief, Bible Believer, your capacity for hatred and intolerance seems to know no bounds. Given that you present yourself as a Biblical scholar, it is amazing that you either never encountered, “God is Love” or “Judge not, lest ye be judged” or “Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord”, or at least never took any of it seriously. Good Luck on Judgment Day.