Posted on 05/10/2007 2:35:50 PM PDT by lizol
Israeli cartoon raises Polish protest
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Polish embassy official complained Thursday about a Holocaust cartoon feature in an Israeli newspaper last month, charging it depicted Poles in an unfavorable light.
The Ha'aretz daily ran the cartoon before last month's annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. It depicted the story of the artist's mother escaping from Poland during World War II. One of the frames pictures Polish passengers on a train, many with drinks in their hands, harassing the young woman.
The cartoons were republished in the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita on Thursday and caused an outrage, according to Piotr Trobniak, a spokesman for the Polish embassy in Tel Aviv.
"It describes the Poles as vicious drunks and in a negative way. They look very ugly and not nice. This is a very difficult issue," Trobniak told the Associated Press.
The editor of the Ha'aretz supplement that printed the cartoon feature, Nir Becher, denied the charges. "We aren't saying anything against the Polish people as a whole," he said. "This is a description of the people who were there at that moment in time, according to testimony of the woman who was there."
The Polish complaint charged that cartoons were an inappropriate way to depict the Holocaust, but Becher said the cartoon was a literary tool that was used because there were so many other stories on the subject.
Six million Jews were killed by Nazis during World War II, many of them in death camps built in Poland. Among the victims were most of the 3.5 million Jews who lived in Poland.
Leave it up to an Israeli leftist Rag like Ha’aretz to depict Poles in an unfavorable way. Poland is fairly pro-Israel these days. Liberal leftists are scum of the earth in any nation.
Looks like Nazi propaganda to me. The thin blonde Aryian woman being confronted by the Slavic untermenchen. Sure this isn’t from the Völkischer Beobachter?
Tell the story of what happened to your mom during the Holocaust and everybody accuses you of having a political agenda.
“Looks like Nazi propaganda to me.”
Say in public and you will see that all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Yes, being objective can have its risks. For example, one should never point out that the Nazis killed roughly as many non-Jews as they did Jews, or that in Poland, Stalin killed about as many non-Jews as did Hitler.
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How should this episode have been portrayed?
I was’nt aware that ants or any other insect had a language to translate...
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You bet they are.
I’ve read, that during some discussion on Israeli TV the host asked the editor of the Haaretz something like: “What would you say, if some Polish newspaper published a cartoon showing Jewish people in similar view?”
And you know what the answer was?
“You can’t compare such two situations” LOL!
I can tell you this for fact, coming from a Polish family, this was most probably true.
The men in my mother’s family became different people when drunk, as did my mother.
However, when not drinking, these were some of the sweetest people ever.
Just because a bunch of drunken men in Poland made this lady’s experience horrible, it is not a reflection on the entire population of Poland. Perhaps some people should not be so sensitive.
Absolutely right; nor can I understand the phenomenon of an Israeli liberal leftist, given the left's tendency to side with the terrorists.
...interesting. People have depicted historical cruelty by groups of people in the USA in cases where there was no reason to doubt the depictions. I don’t recall seeing demands for censorship from whole communities of Americans against such personal accounts. But in a band of countries from Italy to Russia, propaganda is elevated to higher levels of importance.
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