ANOTHER Nazi propaganda emulating anti-Israel cartoon

"Little Green Footballs" pro-Israel website ^ | 8/5/3 | Auth

[NativeNewYorker]

I wrote: “Cartoons like this, not seen in the West since the bad old days of Julius Streicher and Der Stuermer, are getting more and more common. ”

When I wrote that, I was simply repelled by what seemed to me to be obvious, gut-churning antisemitism.

Auth/Phil Inq.

vs.

From Hitler-era Germany.

[NativeNewYorker]

ich ping

[anniegetyourgun]

Gad....it's even worse than I thought it was.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[wideawake]

Absolutely sickening.

[Frank_Discussion]

I know SO MANY people who think that this sort of thing could never happen again... It scares me that this is right out in the open, and the same people don't see the danger.

Egads.

[NativeNewYorker]

Tony Auth, born in Akron, Ohio, and raised in Southern California, has been drawing since the age of five.

He graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1965 and worked for six years as chief medical illustrator at Rancho Los Amigos Hospital, a large teaching hospital affiliated with the medical school of The University of Southern California.

In 1967, while still working as a medical illustrator, Auth began doing political cartoons. He first drew a single cartoon each week for Open City, a Los Angeles weekly. After a year, he began creating three drawings weekly for the UCLA Daily Bruin. Those cartoons were used widely in other college newspapers. In 1971, The Philadelphia Inquirer hired him as staff editorial cartoonist, and he is currently a member of its editorial board.

Auth has won several awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for distinguished service in journalism.

Auth's work appears five times a week in The Philadelphia Inquirer. He and his wife, Eliza, have two children.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Totalitarians, socialists, communists of all stripe are anti-semites. That has been a constant of history. If anti-semitism didn't exist, I'm convinced they'ed invent it.

[ZviTheWise]

Most likely it's a coincidence -- the subjects of both are very different, the Nazi-era one being simple hate propaganda, but the new one apparently referring to effects of the Israeli wall/fence plan.

[wideawake]

It scares me that this is right out in the open, and the same people don't see the danger.

Well, it underscores our responsibility.

If a newspaper publishes anti-Jewish garbage we should complain.

If a friend, neighbor or co-worker makes an anti-Jewish comment we should correct them and point out that what they're doing is wrong.

If a politician advocates the "Palestinian cause" or even more sinister things, we should bring it to people's attention and work to defeat them.

If we see any Jew being harassed or bothered by others we should defend them vigorously - physically if we have to.

[Jay D. Dyson]

Methinks the terrorists doth protest too much.

[Frank_Discussion]

I agree.

[NativeNewYorker]

Most likely it's a coincidence -- the subjects of both are very different, the Nazi-era one being simple hate propaganda, but the new one apparently referring to effects of the Israeli wall/fence plan.

Dude. Both portray Judaism as a physically devisive force.

Career cartoonists like Auth know the history of their trade. T'ain't no freepin' coincidence.

[Baseballguy]

Umm, What does it mean? I have no clue. Could someone explain it?

[NativeNewYorker]

It means Jews divide/imprison people.

[SupplySider]

It means the Israelis are fencing off the "Palestinians" into disconnected ghettos while keeping most of the land for themselves. It implies that the Jews are Nazi-like oppressors of innocent refugees. Disgusting.

[Alouette]

The Arab cartoons are actually much worse than Nazi propaganda cartoons.

Nazi anti-Semitic cartoons

Arab anti-Semitic cartoons
(from Qatar, "moderate" Arab "ally"--oh yeah, the Qatari (our "moderate allies") cartoons are also ferociously anti-American)

[NativeNewYorker]

I'd expect that kind of stuff from the religionofpeace, but not Auth!

The Inqi has (had?) a large Jewish audience.

[veronica]

I'll be sending this info to my contacts at the organizations which monitor such matters.

[NativeNewYorker]

Thanks. I am quite in a lather about this.

I've seen Auth's material for years, but I had no idea he harbored these views, won a Pulitzer, and sat on the Inqui's editorial board.

I suspect we'll see a pattern similar to that after the Chicago editorial cartoon smear -- feigned ignorance of the meaning and history of the image, crocodile tears for getting free PR, chest-thumping about the first amendment, whining about over-sensitive Jews, and in the end, nothing.