Posted on 09/29/2015 12:03:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Israel has demanded an apology from a Norwegian newspaper, arguing a cartoon putting oranges from Israel side by side with pizza from Nazi Germany constituted "hate speech".
The cartoon, by Norwegian cartoonist Ola Lysgaard, shows a woman standing in front of an organic food store.
"Organic food, huh?" reads the text. "But who cares if the food is produced unethically?"
In the next panel, the woman holds an orange and says: "These oranges comes from Israel! You are supporting murderers!".
Next the woman is seen holding a carton: "This macaroni is produced in North Korea!? How did you even get a hold of these??".
In the last panel, the woman holds a box of frozen pizza marked with a swastika, with a "Made in Nazi Germany" label, and says: "And this pizza is from N… what kind of store is this??"
Dan Poraz, first secretary at the Israeli Embassy in Oslo, said that the cartoon was "thoughtless" and "reprehensible" and clearly constituted hate speech.
"There is a fine line between freedom of speech and hate speech," he wrote in a comment in Dagbladet, "and this cartoon crossed that line, it's about time that editors take responsibility. An apology may be a suitable way to start."
He complained that the cartoon "puts Israel in the same category as Nazi Germany and North Korea", and compared "democratic Israel, which fights for the security of its citizens" with "unstable and violent dictatorships".
He also said it was both "incorrect" and "offensive" to portray Israeli products as "unethical".
"This is damaging because it can incite anti-Israeli bias that can lead to violent reactions," he said.
According to Isreal's Ynet News, Dagbladet's editor has refused to apologize, arguing that it was "only a cartoon" and that the Israeli reaction was overblown.
The cartoonist Ola Lysgaard is bemused by the stir.
"I'm used to people not getting my jokes. They aren't trying to please everyone. But I've never experienced people missing the point to this extreme level," he told the Local.
"I don't know if the offended people read a bad translation, or just didn't get it. Either way, I can't help but find the whole situation utterly amusing."
Below is the cartoon in full. You can find it on Imgur here, and in Dagbladet (Norwegian) here.
“I’m used to people not getting my jokes...”
Maybe because they’re stupid.
That NAZI pizza would be very stale. Seventy years old - ugh!
Most Norwegians migrated to the U.S.A. and other countries long ago, while enormous numbers of people migrated to Norway from the Balkans and southern Europe.
Many of those who migrated to Norway from the Balkans and from southern Europe also took Norwegian surnames, by the way.
As for the cartoon, it’s highly dishonest and evil. Notice that the newer Iberian Norwegians don’t challenge their Islamist friends.
Leftists draw ugly cartoons.
Not sure why ...
I think this kind of swill is foreshadowing for a lot more of what’s coming in Europe for the Jews.
I’m thinking that when the Islamist get more control in Europe that the European lefties are going to sell out the Jews in a big way, with the mistaken belief that this is somehow going to curry favor with the Islamic barbarians.
Jew Hate in Norway,
Norway gave Jew Killer Ararfart the Nobel PEACE Prize.
And since I'm nitpicking here, that should be “unethically,” not “unethical.”
Why do the Israelis care about the marginal ravings of a shrill, dumpy Norwegian moonbat? By the way, that caricature of the moonbat is uncanny. I can only guess that it's supposed to represent the cartoonist and her robust sense of outrage.
And the rest of the world will be laughing their rear ends off when the Muzziescum take over Norway, Sweden, and all the other Eurotard countries who opened their countries to an onslaught of these vermin. They didn’t have enough native rapists and murderers, so they sought to correct that deficiency by importing more.
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