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Nazis Would Be Proud of Sunday Times Racist, Anti-Semitic Israel Cartoon
Israel News Agency / Google News ^ | January 28, 2013 | Joel Leyden

Posted on 01/28/2013 3:33:37 PM PST by IsraelBeach

Nazis Would Be Proud of Sunday Times Racist, Anti-Semitic Israel Cartoon

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The Sunday Times runs Nazi style cartoons attacking Jews.

By Joel Leyden
Israel News Agency

Jerusalem --- January 28, 2013 … One has to ask The Sunday Times in London just one question. Which Arab state paid you to bash Israel?
To take a punch at the Jews?

Why would any newspaper in any free democracy take a racist shot at Israel, at every Jew around the world?

As over 60,000 civilians are murdered in Syria, as Iran declares its intention to build nuclear weapons for use against the Infidels of the West, Israel - the only free, open democracy in the Middle East - has just finished holding free and democratic elections. Elections that placed Israeli Arabs into it's Parliament - the Knesset.

So which Arab nation paid The Sunday Times to deflect from their massacres, corruption, poverty and unemployment to target Israel, the Jewish people? And in doing so, continuing the blood libel against the Jewish people.

The Sunday Times used International Holocaust Memorial Day not to honor the 6 million Jewish dead but instead to honor Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. The Sunday Times ran a virulently anti-Israel cartoon illustrating a big-nosed Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu paving a wall with the blood and limbs of crying Palestinians.

The cartoon included a caption beneath the cartoon entitled "Israeli elections- will cementing peace continue?"

The racist cartoon was drawn by Gerald Scarfe, and appeared in the UK national paper on Sunday.

“This cartoon would be offensive at any time of the year, but to publish it on International Holocaust Remembrance Day is sickening and expresses a deeply troubling mindset,” said European Jewish Congress President Dr. Moshe Kantor. “This insensitivity demands an immediate apology from both the cartoonist and the paper’s editors.”

Media monitor Honest Reporting labeled it "a blood libel on a day when the millions of victims of the Holocaust are remembered", while Rabbi Yitzhak Schochet of Mill Hill Synagogue urged the newspaper to "retract that vile piece of anti-semitism and apologize to your readership and affected communities".

The Sunday Times defended its racist cartoon in response to charges of anti-Semitism. "This is a typically robust cartoon by Gerald Scarfe,” a spokesman for the Times said. “The Sunday Times firmly believes that it is not anti-Semitic. It is aimed squarely at Mr. Netanyahu and his policies, not at Israel, let alone at Jewish people."

Scarfe and the editorial staff of the The Sunday Times should quit its spin and own up to its Nazi / Iran style cartoons of the Jews. Do we want to begin with the size of Netanyahu's nose? Or should we go for the crying Palestinians?

As one who served in the Israel Defense Forces as an Humanitarian Officer, I can proudly state that whether it be at security checkpoints to prevent Islamic Jihad bombings (remember 7/7 in London), visiting shopping malls and parks in Israel, Palestinians are provided with as much respect as any other human being. Their freedoms are no different than the freedoms of Jews or Christians in Israel.

I call on the editorial staff of The Sunday Times to come to Israel and show the world where and how the Palestinians, who reject Israel as a Jewish nation and any offer of a real and lasting peace, are suffering.

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Luxury shopping malls, restaurants, hotels are opening in Gaza.
Where is the suffering?

What The Sunday Times cartoon and defense of this racist cartoon does is not to attack Israel's Prime Minister. But the Israeli people who voted for Benjamin Netanyahu and Jews and Christians around the world who support democratic Israel. The cartoon serves to deflect off the real problems in the Middle East and incites hate against Israel and every Jew from London, Manchester and Leeds to New York, Paris and Rome.

As one who lived in London, I know first hand the rampant anti-Semitism that exists in the UK. I know of the Jews, not all, who would rather keep their jobs and be quiet in the face of it. The Board of Deputies of British Jews has lodged a complaint today with the Press Complaints Commission, an independent body for the UK’s printed press.

Jon Benjamin, Chief Executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, stated: “The cartoon is shockingly reminiscent of the blood libel imagery more usually found in parts of the virulently anti-Semitic Arab press. Its use is all the more disgusting on Holocaust Memorial Day, given the similar tropes leveled against Jews by the Nazis.

But now, The Sunday Times needs to answer beyond the borders of England. For there are many Jews and Christians around the world who will not remain silent. Who will not tolerate this desecration of Jews on a day that marks the murder of many in our families.

We who remember Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Treblinka and Sobibor will not allow The Sunday Times to go quietly into the night after spitting on the memory of our murdered dead.

Who paid The Sunday Times and or Gerald Scarfe to run this Nazi style cartoon?

Syria, Iran, Egypt or Saudi Arabia?
Or was it al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah or Islamic Jihad?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisemitic; cartoon; geraldscarfe; israel; liberalagenda; progressiveagenda; sundaytimes; unitedkingdom; waronterror
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1 posted on 01/28/2013 3:33:52 PM PST by IsraelBeach
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To: IsraelBeach
expresses a deeply troubling mindset,

I am so sick and tired of this crap! Hey, Jews! Don't be troubled over this sort of thing. It's what they plan to do to us. Don't worry your little pointed, leftist, Jewish heads with this "troubling mindset." Remember, THEY WANT US DEAD! Prepare for the fight, which the leftist Jews refused to do in Europe back in the 1930s. Read the history. Read today's newspapers. Need any more proof they want us dead? Don't be surprised when they help the arabs and muslims expand their reach. Oh, sure, they might start liking Jews again, once we've been wiped out. But don't bet on it!

Mark

2 posted on 01/28/2013 3:44:48 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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3 posted on 01/28/2013 3:45:42 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: IsraelBeach

Any doubt about which side the current Marxist in Chief would take?


4 posted on 01/28/2013 3:56:00 PM PST by BlueStateRightist (Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.)
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To: IsraelBeach

Scarfe....scratch a radical-leftist Brit cartoonist...find an anti-Semite. Not that the American left is any better. By the way, Scarfe is maybe the most famous Brit political cartoonist. He also did the uh “art” for “The Wall.”


5 posted on 01/28/2013 4:01:01 PM PST by driftless2
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To: MarkL

Save your breath my good FRiend. My other home in Florida is an over 55 community. Solid Jewish/Democrat. A few exceptions and they are convinced today Jews would gladly vote for Hitler as they did for Obama. History channel did a show about Jews for Hitler.....

Make up your own mind.


6 posted on 01/28/2013 4:18:44 PM PST by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: driftless2

I can never understand anti-semitism.

Everything I have seen about Jewish culture leads me to believe that for the most part they encourage their children to be educated because they have had to deal with a lot of hardship as a people. This leads their children to end up in good jobs because they are higher educated because they are pushed harder which leads people to envy them.

Is this the root of it?


7 posted on 01/28/2013 4:26:04 PM PST by GraceG
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To: rrrod

I see both sides here, plus ; it is damn sad how the US Jew is so damn liberal for the most part. Look at Wasserman Schultz. When I was ten years old my father took me through Dachau, and; those brick walls with ovens large enough for a human body stacked on top of each other are images I will never forget.My father had been the lead signal corps officer to enter that camp with the 42 ID. Those photos he took are still at my sisters, and; they were not the one’s distributed in the packets. I have asked my youngest sister several times to donate the photos to the halocaust museum.


8 posted on 01/28/2013 4:38:36 PM PST by Lumper20 (`)
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9 posted on 01/28/2013 4:45:44 PM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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10 posted on 01/28/2013 4:46:23 PM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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11 posted on 01/28/2013 4:56:37 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: IsraelBeach
Paging Dr Godwin!


12 posted on 01/28/2013 5:07:06 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: IsraelBeach; SJackson
Thanks for the post; a ping.

13 posted on 01/28/2013 5:41:07 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,spend it all today;who can take your income,tax it all away..0'Bozo man can :-)
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To: IsraelBeach

Progressives are the new NAZIs.


14 posted on 01/28/2013 5:50:13 PM PST by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: IsraelBeach
FWIW, Murdoch apologizes for “offensive” Netanyahu cartoon
15 posted on 01/28/2013 6:03:23 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: IsraelBeach
I think the cartoon is stupid and its premise is incorrect, but where is the racism?

Must everybody yell "racism!" at any picture, thought or idea they disagree with?

Is it racist because Netanyahu is pretty ugly in the cartoon? I think most people are ugly in editorial cartoons. For example, is the following cartoon racist?

I think the Netanyahu cartoon is stupid and nasty, but racist? Nah.

16 posted on 01/28/2013 6:19:32 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: rrrod
History channel did a show about Jews for Hitler...

Is that true?

17 posted on 01/28/2013 6:32:48 PM PST by GOPJ ( Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. Vladimir Nabokov)
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To: SJackson

Please check out reply #11 - maybe ping your list to it?


18 posted on 01/28/2013 6:46:08 PM PST by GOPJ ( Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. Vladimir Nabokov)
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To: GraceG
Well, a lot of it is just hatred of a different religion. Jews were called Christ-killers since the diaspora. Like the Chinese in the Orient, it was expedient to blame the Jews for the other people's misfortunes. Crops went bad...blame it on the Jews. The plague killed thousands?...those dirty Jews were responsible. People who do well are always envied by those who don't.

But I'm particularly exasperated by people who look at the Mideast and see a country like Israel, whose citizens contribute far beyond their numbers in areas of science, medicine, and technology, and think they are the villains. Contrasted against Mideast Arabs many of whom are still living in the seventh century and contribute little else but murder, honor killings, and backwardness.

19 posted on 01/28/2013 6:46:56 PM PST by driftless2
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“But I’m particularly exasperated by people who look at the Mideast and see a country like Israel, whose citizens contribute far beyond their numbers in areas of science, medicine, and technology, and think they are the villains. Contrasted against Mideast Arabs many of whom are still living in the seventh century and contribute little else but murder, honor killings, and backwardness.”

Post of the day :)


20 posted on 01/28/2013 7:08:39 PM PST by DaveinOK54 (Freedom is not Free and I'll never quit defending it.)
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