{"id":745,"date":"2006-02-07T21:43:26","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T01:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/02\/07\/killer-cartoons\/"},"modified":"2006-02-07T21:43:26","modified_gmt":"2006-02-08T01:43:26","slug":"killer-cartoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/02\/07\/killer-cartoons\/","title":{"rendered":"Killer Cartoons"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I<\/em>n
\n this cartoon, from Al-Watan (Oman) (August 10, 2002), Jewish acts are
\n equated with those of the Nazis. This Nazi-type anti-Semitic caricature
\n of a Jew has a hooked nose, a hunched back, has no shoes, and is sweating.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Although we have decided to uncharacteristically
\n refrain from posting any of the 12 offending drawings<\/a> of Muhammed, we
\n can’t resist getting in on some of the controversy. To show that we can clearly
\n relate to
\n people being deeply offended by callous and viscious cartoons attacking
\n our religion and the things we hold closest to our heart, we have decided
\n to
\n reprint some
\n other examples of this reprehensible practice.<\/p>\n

Seeing such racist and anti-semitic cartoons makes us want to race out
\n to the streets and start a world-wide religious war against anyone with
\n such a lack of respect as to publish distorted lies like these…..<\/p>\n


\n In the above cartoon, from Akhbar Al-Khalij (Bahrain) (June 10, 2002),
\n the anti-Semitic caricature of a Jew on the right says: "Say: "I hate
\n the Arabs!" and American president George W. Bush, made to resemble
\n a parrot, repeats: "I hate the Arabs, I hate the Arabs." <\/em><\/p>\n

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Another
\n major theme in Arab cartoons is the bloodloving or blood-thirsty Jew.
\n In today’s Arab world this image of unbridled hatred has mutated
\n into the alleged quest for Palestinian blood.
\n Blood-drinking Jews are frequently shown by Al Ahram, one of
\n Egypt’s leading dailies. On 21 April 2001, it printed a cartoon showing
\n an Arab being put into a flatting mill by two soldiers wearing helmets
\n with Stars of David. The Arab’s blood pours out and two Jews with kippot
\n and Stars of David on their shirts drink the blood laughingly. <\/em><\/p>\n

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A Jewish Devil (Ariel
\n Sharon), walks on the bones of dead Arabs.<\/em><\/p>\n

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cartoon from the Anti-Defamation League <\/a>web site<\/p>\n

It is clear that nothing can be gained by trying to understand or reason with people who would publish such
\n distorted trash.  The only solution is to kill them, obviously.
\n Or are we missing something here? <\/p>\n

authors note: It occurs to us that in today’s hyper-heated debate environment, we should make it explicitly clear that the previous comments are facetious in nature. Humor blogging can be dangerous when faced with readers completely lacking a sense of humor….<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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