ADL Calls Oliphant Cartoon 'Hideously Anti-Semitic'
New York, NY, March 25, 2009 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) labeled a syndicated cartoon by Pat Oliphant appearing today in newspapers across the country and on the Internet as "hideously anti-Semitic" because of its use of Nazi-like imagery and hateful evocation of the Jewish Star of David.
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."
Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement:
Pat Oliphant's outlandish and offensive use of the Star of David in combination with Nazi-like imagery is hideously anti-Semitic. It employs Nazi imagery by portraying Israel as a jack-booted, goose-stepping headless apparition. The implication is of an Israeli policy without a head or a heart.
Israel's defensive military operation to protect the lives of its men, women and children who are being continuously bombarded by Hamas rocket attacks has been turned on its head to show the victims as heartless, headless aggressors.
What's got Abe Foxman's knickers in such a twist? This cartoon:
Continuously bombarded by Hamas bottle rockets? Yes, poor defenseless Israel is once again the victim.
Where's my hankies, I feel a good cry coming on!
Maybe if the cartoon had shown some headless Gazan kids, blown to pieces by some of Abe's buddies in the IDF, he'd like that better?
Or maybe the cartoon should of shown the wild animals in the Gaza Zoo that were machine gunned to death by IDF thugs, that would be pleasing to Abe?
How about some pics of the Gazan ambulances, medical clinics and food distribution centers that have been bombed into oblivion by the world's "most moral army," that would be A-OK with Abe, huh?
Mr. Oliphant better watch out! The Senate is passing another of their "I'm a Whore for Israel and Proud of It" resolutions that will make political cartoons and honest expressions of disgust with Israel's barbaric behavior illegal.
What's actually scaring fascist thugs like Foxman is that the world is getting wise to the #1 ME terrorist state and threat to world peace, Israel and that they might not be able to go on one of their regular killing sprees against Occupied Palestine without some repercussions.
Yes, that's real scary, isn't it Mr. Foxman?
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