France: Anti-Semitic (Jews as cockroaches) political cartoon on popular blog

"... the conspiracy libel supposes that the Jews act as one, in pursuit of goals inimical to the interests of non-Jews..." (Anthony Julius)

Via La Règle du Jeu (François Heilbronn):

This cartoon features on Alain Soral's blog Egalité et Réconciliation.  Alain Soral, who is a friend of Dieudonné, is known for his antisemitism.  Both Soral and Dieudonné are very popular in France.

"France!! beware... the cockroaches are on the go"

President Emmanuel Macron is represented as a cockroach and so are the other "cockroaches" who surround him and who are all Jewish: Jacques Attali (dubbed the "chief cockroach"), Bernard-Henri Levy, Jack Lang, Alain Finkielkraut and Julien Dray. To avoid any doubts about their Jewish origins, Attali is pictured with a Star of David medal pinned on a blue and white striped ribbon evocative of the garb deportees were made to wear.

Finally they all come out of a toilet bearing the initials of the CRIF (an umbrella organization of French Jewish organizations) and the LICRA (an anti-racist organisation targeted by anti-Semites who believe it is run by Jews for the benefit of Jews).  Next to it, stands a "French Republic" toilet with the door closed.

So what's the message?  France must be be watchful because the "cockroaches" are "on the go" (a reference to President Macron's party La République En Marche) and ready to control him.

The cartoonist is the author of this antisemitic drawing. 

Norway: Caricature equates circumcision with pedophilia

Via Ynet News:

Norway's fourth-largest newspaper has recently published a caricature depicting supporters of circumcision for Jews and Muslims as pedophiles. 

The offensive caricature appeared in The Dagbladet, the second largest tabloid in the country that has a circulation of approximately 75,000 copies a day.  The caricature depicts a man wearing a kippah (skullcap) and a bearded man standing next to him, both holding signs reading 'Yes to circumcision' and 'Religious freedom.' A third man, wearing a ratty coat, tells them: "I know what you mean. I, too, am told by an invisible man to fiddle with children's penises."

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It's not the first time.  In 2013, Dagbladet carried this caricature: 

Norway paper’s cartoon ‘so anti-Semitic it would have made Hitler weep with joy’

Belgium: Antisemitic cartoonist named 'cultural ambassador' for Belgian town

Via Elder of Ziyon: 

Luc Descheemaeker (aka O-Sekoer) has been named the "cultural ambassador par excellence" for the city of Torhout, Belgium. 

Belgian news site Nieuwsblad says he deserves the award because his cartoons have been shown worldwide. 

This is true. He was a winner of Iran's Holocaust Cartoon contest with this entry.

The town of Torhout is quite aware of this because there was worldwide publicity for the school he taught at honoring him despite this clearly antisemitic cartoon. 

And he has drawn other antisemitic cartoons as well, like this one that blames Jews for being blown up by terrorists:

This one with a similar motif doesn't bother with the seeming even handedness of the previous cartoon, squarely blaming Jews for terrorism:

There is no way for any honest person to interpret these cartoons as anything but antisemitism. 

A JTA reporter in Belgium who covered the previous honor for Descheemaeker was shaken by the tacit support for antisemitic expression in Belgium:  

I wanted to see if this see-no-evil approach from government offices in a country whose leaders often declare a zero-tolerance attitude to anti-Semitism surprised me. But the real shock was the response from the Belgian media to JTA’s coverage of the affair.

De Morgen, one of Belgium’s largest and best-respected dailies, ran an article that omitted reference to Descheemaeker’s caricatures of Jews. It described the Iranian competition as a “controversial” affair “themed on the Holocaust,” which the paper said was instituted as a statement about freedom of expression following the publication of insulting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in Denmark. 

(UNESCO, the cultural arm of the United Nations, had called the contest “a mockery of the genocide of the Jewish people.”) 

Descheemaeker, who is described in the paper as an internationally acclaimed caricaturist, is quoted as saying in reaction to the uproar created by his work: “There is still such a thing as freedom of expression.”
Knack, a popular news site, took the same editorial line. 

Confused, I reached out to Joel Rubinfeld, founder of the Belgian League Against Anti-Semitism and former president of the CCOJB umbrella group of French-speaking Belgian Jewish communities. I wanted to know whether Belgian education officials were more tolerant of expressions of anti-Semitism than their counterparts from other Western European countries.
“It’s a problem,” he said. “We’ve encountered a number of cases where schools did not take the necessary measures when Jewish pupils were targeted in anti-Semitic bullying, for example.” 

A teacher who last year told a Jewish high school student, “We should put you all on freight wagons,” was allowed to keep his job following an internal inquiry. It ended with him apologizing while denying any anti-Semitic intent in the first place. 

Cases involving anti-Semitic abuse among students are regularly ignored at Belgian schools, “which don’t apply the measures necessary to make these cases stop,” Rubinfeld said. 

One student was forced to leave his public school and was enrolled in a private Jewish one last year following harassment, which included a threat to “break his skull” if he showed support for Israel. Also last year, the Belgian media reported on the online shaming by classmates of a pro-Israel high school student. He also left the public education system for a Jewish school.

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More about Luc Descheemaeker (aka O-Sekoer):

Belgium: Catholic school supports teacher who won prize at Iran Holocaust-mocking cartoon contest

Belgium: Jews are Nazis, Trump is a Nazi - guess who isn't a Nazi?

France: Vile sexual antisemitic drawing of Manuel Valls at presidential primary polling station

Antisemitic drawing found on the door of a polling station at today's second round of the socialist presidential primary.  It depicts candidate and former P.M. Manuel Valls whose wife is Jewish and the inscriptions reads "Valls a star is born".

Via Facebook

"Valls a star is born"

Greece: Game firm closes Auschwitz ‘escape room’ following complaints

Via JTA:

They didn't escape

An entertainment company in Greece canceled a game in which players use clues to escape from a room themed around the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.

The Rubicon agency, which is located in the northern Athens suburb of Galatsi, in recent weeks advertised the Auschwitz “escape room” on social media. Jews and non-Jews complained it was disrespectful to Holocaust victims, the left-leaning news site Protagon reported Tuesday.

“In frozen Poland, the walls of the crematorium of the infamous Nazi concentration camp for prisoners, primarily of Jewish origin, still reek of burnt human flesh, they say,” a promotional text for the game read. “Take on the role of a prisoner still looking for signs of life from loved ones, dare to stay  in the shadow of the historic crematorium, discover the big secret and escape before you, too, turn into ashes.”

Reached by Protagon, a spokesman of the firm responsible for the game said it had been scrapped and that the decision to create it did not take into account “that this could cause offense.”

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Belgium: How my JTA reporting about an anti-Semitic cartoon changed my views of Belgium — for the worse

Cnaan Liphshiz @ JTA:

I used to think I had a pretty good understanding of what it means to be Jewish in Belgium.  A longtime observer of that polarized binational country, whose dysfunctions and successes often reflect those of the European Union headquartered in its capital, Brussels, I have family ties there and am fluent in the local languages.

But I had to readjust my understanding of Belgian Jewry’s circumstances this month while reporting on a local Catholic school’s stated pride in and support for a teacher who had published anti-Semitic caricatures, and who recently won a cash prize at Iran’s Holocaust mockery cartoon competition.

Shielded by education officials’ wall of silence and celebrated in mainstream Belgian media as a champion of free speech, Luc Descheemaeker was able to pass off anti-Semitic imagery as legitimate criticism of Israel in a way that I had thought impossible in an established Western democracy in the heart of Europe.

As Descheemaeker’s advocates circled the wagons around him — his school praised him as working to preserve, not distort, the memory of the Holocaust — I saw firsthand how anti-Israel vitriol has mainstreamed classic anti-Semitism in a country where Jews are leaving partly because they feel their children can no longer comfortably attend the public schools.

My Belgian eye opener began with a post on The New Antisemite blog, which tracks anti-Jewish sentiment in Europe. It said the vice director of the Sint Jozef Institute high school near Antwerp had told a Belgian Jewish publication that she was “very proud” of Descheemaeker after he won $1,000 and a special mention at the Second International Holocaust Cartoon Contest in Tehran.

An Orthodox Jew waits to bludgeon
a peaceful Arab baby and his mother
with a giant Star of David

The winning entry by Descheemaeker, a plastic arts teacher who retired this year, was a drawing of the words “Arbeit Macht Frei” over Israel’s security barrier along the West Bank. The German sentence, which means “work sets you free,” was featured on a gate of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Poland.
Previously, I found, Descheemaeker had published at least two cartoons that used classically anti-Semitic imagery. In one,  an Orthodox Jew waits to bludgeon a peaceful Arab baby and his mother with a giant Star of David. In another, the Jew is waiting to startle a jihadist who is holding a shopping bag while wearing an explosives vest — presumably so she blows herself up. [...]

As Belgian Jews continue to grapple with the anti-Semitism problem in their country — in 2014, a suspected jihadist was arrested for the shooting deaths of four people at the Jewish museum in Brussels — a growing number are deciding to look for a new home.

Last year, 287 Jews immigrated to Israel from Belgium, which has a Jewish population of about 40,000. It was the highest figure recorded in a decade. From 2010 to 2015, an average of 234 Belgian Jews made aliyah annually — a 56 percent increase over the annual average of 133 new arrivals from Belgium in 2005-2009, according to Israeli government data.

“In Belgium, the choice for Jews is often between abuse or ghettoization,” Rubinfeld said. “It’s not surprising that a growing number of Belgian Jews are finding alternatives to both.”

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Belgium: Catholic school supports teacher who won prize at Iran Holocaust-mocking cartoon contest

Luc Descheemaeker (aka O-Sekoer) of Belgium was awarded a special prize ("honorable mention") at the infamous Holocaust cartoon contest organised by the Iranians.  He also received $ 1,000 cash prize.

Luc Descheemaeker teaches art and "culture" at the Sint-Jozefsinstituut at Torhout, a catholic school in Flanders.  Regards, a Belgian Jewish magazine, (July 2016 issue) contacted the school and was told that they were immensely proud ("très fière") that one of their teachers had been awarded the prize.  The matter seems to have rested there.

On 18 December, Luc Descheemaeker proudly posted on his blog his award-winning Iran Holocaust-mocking cartoon "embellished" with a drawing by British street artist Banksy, titled Report Descheemaeker vs BANKSY in Tehran (see Resistart too). Whereas Banksy is an original artist, Luc Descheemaeker's work is unimaginative and dull resorting to the recycling of conventional images. It is extremely doubtful that Banksy and any serious artist would stoop so low as to take part in a Holocaust-mocking contest considering the theme and the number of Holocaust deniers and Jew haters that took part.

On 16 March, Descheemaeker posted the cartoon with a Banksy addition again (linking to a Syrian blog - http://o-sekoer.blogspot.be/2016/03/o-sekoer-cartoon-in-picture-in-syria.html):

At the award ceremony in Teheran, which he did not attend but was in contact by videolink, he boasted to have accepted an invitation for a "personal exhibition in Teheran in 2017".
 
Descheemaeker is much appreciated by his Catholic school, the media (Nieuwsblad reported that he had won a prize in Iran, but not a word about the content) and the local authorities at Turhout. Except for two Belgian Jewish magazines, the fact that he participated in an antisemitic contest doesn't seem to bother many people in Belgium.

The carton below is by Zéon, known for his antisemitism, and won the first prize.  It was lifted from Alain Soral's blog Egalité et Réconciliation an posted by Descheemaeker - which goes to show something about his tastes and leanings.  Alain Soral is a friend of Dieudonné who hates Jews and gays.

Other drawings by Zéon: 

Greece: Ariel Sharon in Nazi uniform on the cover of an anti-fascist/racist collection of cartoons

Against antisemitism – Ενάντια στον αντισημιτισμό and XYZ Contagion (in Greek) blogs report: 

Ariel Sharon dressed like a Nazi with a swastika on his arm stating “Fascism is not only the logic of killing, but primarily killing logic” appears on the cover of Stathis Stavropoulos’ new collection of cartoons. It is entitled “The anti-fascist, anti-racist [cartoons]” (Kapsimi Editions, Athens 2016).

The cartoon was initially published in the leftwing daily newspaper Eleftherotypia in March 2004.

See also: Anti-Semitic Caricatures in Greece Following Yassin Operation (Anti-Defamation League).

France: Cartoonist Zeon wins Iranian Holocaust-denial contest

French cartoonist Zeon is the winner of Iran's 2nd International Holocaust cartoon contest in the 'cartoon' category.  Other Europeans won special mentions in both the cartoon  and caricature categories.


Via Teheran Times:

Speaking at the ceremony, the secretary of the competition, Masud Shojaei-Tabatabai said, “One of the subjects we asked cartoonists to focus on was why the Western countries arrest any scholar who doubts the Holocaust while they put no limit on freedom of speech in other categories.”

“The other subject was why Palestinians should pay for the Holocaust… we are concerned about the modern Holocaust that is being sought by the Zionist regime, which is known as a child killer government,” he added.

Zeon (France, first prize)

Misha (Russia, special prize)

Luc Descheemaeker (Belgium , special prize)

Hicabi Demirci (Turkey, special prize)

Santiagu (Portugal, special prize)

Europe: Khomeini was an enthusiastic “connoisseur” of European anti-Semitism

Ben Cohen @ The Tower:

Bernard Bouton, France

JNS.org – A haredi Jew looks into a mirror and sees the face of Adolf Hitler gazing back at him. The walls and guard towers of Auschwitz are squeezed into a snow shaker, with flying dollar bills replacing the fake snowflakes. Another haredi Jew waves a swastika-shaped fan at an Israeli flag, which blows furiously atop a corpse draped in a Palestinian flag.
Not enough? There’s more. The gates of Auschwitz, adorned with the deadly motto “Arbeit Macht Frei,” swing open to reveal the Al-Aqsa mosque, which sits on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, devils’ horns jutting from his forehead, gives a Nazi salute; instead of his usual business suit, he wears a bloodstained brown uniform, with a Star of David rendered as a swastika decorating the sleeve.

Pablo Utiel, France

These are just a selection of the entries submitted to Iran’s latest Holocaust cartoon contest, currently on display in Tehran at the none-too-subtly named Islamic Propaganda Organization. By and large, the cartoons are crudely drawn, in keeping with the themes that they promote. [...]

This is not a recent development, nor is it related to Israeli policy or anything Israel actually does. Anti-Semitism among Iran’s Islamists in fact precedes the creation of the State of Israel. In his excellent book “Germany and Iran: From the Aryan Axis to the Nuclear Threshold,” German historian Matthias Kuentzel described the massive audience in Iran for Radio Zeesen, a Nazi propaganda outlet that

Zeon, France, won first prize

broadcasted programming in Farsi. Among the listeners was the figurehead of Iranian Islamism, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. According to Kuentzel, Khomeini was an enthusiastic “connoisseur” of European anti-Semitism. “They are liars and determined,” Khomeini wrote in a tract entitled “The Islamic State.” There was also the following claim, based on the same wretched fantasies that lead to Holocaust denial: “We see today that the Jews (may God curse them) have meddled with the text of the Qur’an and have made certain changes in the Qur’ans they have printed in the occupied territories.”

These same views prevail among Iran’s leaders today, no matter what [Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad] Zarif says. Indeed, to disavow Khomeini would be unthinkable in the current context, as demonstrated by the recent election of Ayatollah Ahmed Jannati as head of the “Assembly of Experts,” a key ruling body that chooses the supreme leader.

Luc Descheemaeker Belgium, won
honorable mention

Jannati is a boilerplate fanatic who leads chants of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” at Friday prayers. It was Jannati who, in 2009, backed then president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s blood-drenched crackdown against pro-democracy demonstrators. The regime that existed in 2009 still exists today, with the same mechanisms of fearsome repression at its disposal. It cannot be reformed, and certainly not from within. But—heretical as it is to say this—it can, and should, be overthrown.

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Steffen Jahsnowski, Germany

Santiagu, Portugal

Luca Ionel, Switzerland

Thomas Losfeld, France

Cartoons: Second International Holocaust Cartoon Contest

Belgium: Jewish academic Anya Topolski posts outrageous Latuff cartoon

"Europe today - Europe in the past" outrageously equating the plight of Arab refugees to European Jews exterminated by the Nazis and their henchmen.  This type of comparison is often used by Israel haters and antisemites.

Anya Topolski, who is a Jewish  Israel-basher has posted a drawing by Carlos Latuff on Facebook.   Topolski is a good friend of another Israel-basher Simone Susskind, a prominent member of the largest Belgian Jewish organisation (CCLJ). Carlos Latuff is well known for his relentless hatred for Israel and was awarded second prize at the antisemitic Holocaust cartoon competition in Teheran (2006).

Anya Topolski was invited with Nadia Fadil by Simone Susskind to speak at the Jewish Museum in Brussels.  Susskind is a Socialist MP and recently compared Haredim to Jewish extremists.

See: Brussels Jewish Museum hosts conference with two BDS anti-Israel militants.

Topolski teaches at the Radboud univeristy of Nijmegen and previously at the University of Leuven (KULeuven) and signed a pro-boycott Israel petition initiated by Herman De Ley.   Prof. Herman De Ley is the webmaster of a blog hosted by the University of Ghent which features links to Holocaust-denial and revisionist blogs.

She was with Herman De Ley the only person from Belgium who signed yet another "anti-Israel" petition: http://backtheboycott.com/

Both, Anya Topolski and Nadia Fadil (they pride themselves on belonging to the AEL generation) are admirers of Dyab Abou Jahjah despite the fact that he called several times for the ethnic cleansing/extermination of all six million Jews of Israel ("la valise ou le cercueil", meaning "either the suitcase or the coffin").   

More about Abou Jahjah HERE.

Spain: Cartoon shows Israeli soldiers molesting Jesus, urinating on Palestinians

Is this surprising?   "According to a poll commissioned by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 58.4% of Spaniards believe that "the Jews are powerful because they control the economy and the mass media." This number reaches 62.2% among university students and 70.5% among those who are "interested in politics." More than 60% of Spanish university students say they do not want Jewish classmates. "These numbers are as surprising as they are worrying: the most anti-Semitic people are supposedly the most educated and well-informed," the report says. The poll also shows that more than one-third (34.6%) of Spanish people have an unfavorable or completely unfavorable opinion of Jewish people." (Gatestone Institute)

The Jerusalem Post reports:

The Spanish Jewish community is threatening legal action for a “Nazi” style cartoon published by a local satirical magazine which portrayed hook nosed Israeli soldiers urinating on Palestinians and physically abusing Jesus.

In the most recent issue of the popular left wing El Jueves, a publication similar in many respects to the irreverent French weekly Charlie Hebdo, illustrator Julio Serrano harshly criticized the Jewish state, including allegations that Jerusalem’s Israel Museum keeps a Torah scroll wrapped in “the skin of my holy testicles” and that any Jew who marries an Arab is stripped of his citizenship and expelled.

“This is absolutely outrageous and obviously we are going to be seeking legal remedies,” David Hatchwell, the president of the Jewish community of Madrid, told the Jerusalem Post on Thursday.

While magazines lambasting religion and politics in an irreverent style are fine, he contended, it is “absolutely unacceptable” to engage in “every single original anti-Semitic attack and slanders against the Jewish people.”

“This [cartoon] could be taken from the Nazis’ Der Sturmer and nobody would notice the difference,” he continued, referring, among other things, to the magazine’s portrayal of Jews as having long hooked noses and seeking to dominate their gentile neighbors.

In one panel an Israeli soldier, wearing what appears to be a German style helmet, can be seen holding his genitals in his hands as he urinates on a cowering Arab and cries that “you don’t understand, Palestinian, my grandparents were in a concentration camp”

“Ok, the Holocaust was horrible and resulted in the creation of the State of Israel so that the Jews could live in peace, but that doesn’t give you the right to hassle the non-Jewish people who live there,” he writes. “Israel is like the child who watched in horror as his father beat his mother and now, as an adult, he beats his wife. Under Israeli law, Jews have preferential treatment as regards education, health, homes and work, and if you are not Jewish in the State of Israel, you are f**ked.”

Regarding politics, Serrano wrote that “:the Jews have it all tied up” and that non-Zionist parties are banned “so let’s forget about the cannabis party.”

Another illustration showed a soldier kicking an Arab woman and a hasidic man. Explaining that Israel constitutes “apartheid 2.0,” the illustrator averred that “no Israeli can marry a Palestinian [and that] such a union take place, the Israeli loses his citizenship and is obliged to emigrate.”

“The Palestinians are made to use secondary roads, which are studded with checkpoints at which Israeli soldiers exercise an iron control over the movements of those who are not Jews,” he continued, using a picture a long nosed Jew pushing a beaten Jesus next to a checkpoint.

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Switzerland: Young Socialists post 'Jewish lobby' cartoon (UPDATE: apology)

Via BLICK:
 
JUSO (Young Socialists Switzerland) is a youth organization connected to the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland.


Recently they posted the antisemitic cartoon above on their Facebook page.   It shows President and Commerce Minister Johann Schneider-Ammann feeding a fat Jewish man, who has a large nose and sidelocks.   Schneider-Ammann says ".. and a spoon for... the international financial lobby".  The hungry child next to him gets nothing.


JUSO removed the cartoon and published a statement saying that they understood that the cartoon could be interpreted in an antisemitic way and that this in no way reflects on their basic values.   They apologize without reservation and assure everybody that there were no antisemitic intentions behind it.


Update: apology text via Haaretz:

“We understand that the cartoon allows for an interpretation through anti-Semitic codes and stereotypes that absolutely do not correspond with JUSO’s basic values,” the organization wrote in a statement on Jan. 23. ”We would like to apologize unreservedly for this regrettable error and affirm that there was no intention to reproduce anti-Semitism.”

Belgium: Molenbeek fighting anti-Semitism with viciously anti-Semitic cartoon (2013)

Background: Molenbeek 'youths' threatened Jews and drove Jewish shops out of business

Lifted from Philosemitism blog (2013):

An anti-Semitic and holocaust-denying cartoon featured on posters for a conference in Brussels - in an area, Molenbeek, densely populated by Muslims - organised by the local section of the Socialist party.  The conference was cancelled.  The theme was "Let's talk calmly about Zionism"...  You couldn't make it up, could you?

The drawing is by French anti-Semitic cartoonist Zeon. Here is another drawing by him:

UK/Spain: Rothschild pig cartoon - A Spanish left wing or a Spanish right wing perspective?

Background: Scottish MP, Sandra White, thinks Israel pays off Murdoch and Rothschild with oil in return for war on Syria  

Mark Gardner writes @ CST:

[...] The wording beneath ROTHSCHILD is “Banqueros y sirvientas”, Spanish for ‘Bankers and servants”. It is a sad sign of antisemitism today that nobody could say with any certainty whether the pig cartoon comes from a Spanish left wing or Spanish right wing perspective. It is seductive for both, even if the left usually finds it unacceptable to say the word “Jewish”, as in “Jewish money”.

This is the full version of the Rothschild half of White’s tweet:

The image superimposed on the pig, above the word ROTHSCHILD derives from American neo-Nazi websites. It has three Stars of David, one in red above BANK, below the picture of Lord Rothschild, the others on President Obama and former President Bush. The presidents are flanked by cartoon hook noses and hands being rubbed together. This is a close up cut and paste from one of the most commonly used antisemitic cartoons in US neo-Nazi circles.

Of course, even without the US neo-Nazi ‘BANK’ image, the picture is still antisemitic. It plays to the enduring antisemitic charge that Jews use wealth to control others to go to war on their behalf (or in Kaufman’s case, to turn a blind eye to Israel’s own actions). This allegation framed Hitler’s only public speech in which he basically threatened the Holocaust; and we should note that Goebbels made a film specifically about the Rothschilds and the Battle of Waterloo.

This what Sandra White blatantly evoked when she retweeted the image: but it is echoed every time a public figure states, or accepts, stupid conspiracy language about Jewish or Zionist money. [...]

Greece: Former Finance Minister Varoufakis as 'Jewish loan shark' in newpaper cartoon

Greek blog 'Against Antisemitism' reports:

Cartoonist Efi Xenou depicted Yanis Varoufakis as Shylock.
Source: http://www.tanea.gr/skitsa/tis-efis-xenou/

A cartoon depicting former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis as a «Jewish loan shark» was published today in the Greek daily newspaper «Ta Nea» (page 7).

The context: Italy shocked at 24,000 euro TV interview with Varoufakis

In a letter to the editor, the Central Board of the Jewish Communities in Greece strongly protested the blatant antisemitism of this cartoon.

Related post: Greek mainstream newspaper singles out names of “Jewish origin” featured on Swiss Leaks (10/02/2015)

Austria: Vienna Jews: City ignoring Muslim anti-Semitic incitement

The Times of Israel reports:

The Jewish Community of Vienna has accused the city’s prosecutor’s office of ignoring anti-Semitic incitement by pro-Palestinian activists.

The incitement took the form of a caricature published last month on the Facebook page of organizers of the Vienna march of International Quds Day — an annual event held in cities across the world since it was initiated in Iran as an expression of solidarity with Palestinians and rejection of Zionism and Israel. 

The caricature showed men wearing Middle Eastern garb and one child pouring water into a hole, at the bottom of which stands a worried-looking, drowning Orthodox Jew holding an Israeli flag. The caricature contained a Turkish-language quote attributed to Ruhollah Khomeini, the late spiritual leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran: “If every Muslim poured a glass of water on Israel, it would drown.”

The organizers of the march on July 11 removed the caricature after the Jewish Community of Vienna complained about it in Austrian media. Politicians from across the spectrum condemned the caricature as anti-Semitic and several parties filed a criminal complaint for incitement, but the Vienna Prosecutor’s Office recently decided to close the case without charging anyone.  Read more.

France: Cartoon accuses Israel of apartheid and child killing

The French are absolutely obsessed with Israel and Jews. Once again they show their passion for Palestinians.  Everyday the French find a cause for "indignation" against Israel and the Jews. 

Victor Perez writes about this cartoon by Jacques Tard published in Libération illustrating an article entitled "Jacques Tardi, My indignation".  Tardi wraps up the article saying that he will not be intimidated by the accusation of antisemitism.  He says that the accusation doesn't work any more.  The French, like him, have the right to criticise a country that violates international law every day. One just wonders if he is "indigné" by the bombing of the Kurds by Turkey.  Or the way the Saudis and the Qataris behave. Or the way the Europeans treat the Roma.  Or the persecution or Christians and other minorities in Muslim counrtries.  But that's a totally different ball game.  "Indigation" is a highly selective operation.

Caption:
Say No to Tel Aviv sur Seine!  Apartheid summer-beach 2015.
Summer-Gaza 2014
2200 dead of which 550 children

France: Bernard Bouton, antisemitic cartoonist

French cartoonist Bernard Bouton was upset at me when I said that the cartoonists who signed up for Iran's Holocaust Cartoon contest are antisemites.

I mean, really, what's the connection between Iran and antisemitism?

Let me bring President Obama's words on the topic:

So there's still going to be a whole host of differences between us and Iran, and one of the most profound ones is the vile, anti-Semitic statements that have often come out of the highest levels of the Iranian regime. 

Got that, Bernard?   The highest levels of the Iranian regime often make vile, anti-Semitic statements.

Well, Bernard might argue that he hates the extreme right.  He hates racism.  He hates war.  Look at his cartoons.

Indeed he does.  But he also hates Jews.  Here are a few of his cartoons focusing on Israel.  Judge for yourselves.  Is Bernard Bouton really an antisemite?

On December 7, 2014, Israel (supposedly) attacked weapon depots at two military facilities.  Bernard Bouton doesn't like it when Jews try to destroy weapons before they're fired at them.

Bernard Bouton thinks Israeli love for Iran is like a warplane bombing.   Jews can never do anything good.  They're evil.

Last but not least.  "Captive Gaza", caught in the web of a 7-branched golden menorah spider.

Bernard Bouton thinks this is not antisemitic.

That is why he signed up for Iran's antisemitic hate-fest against Israel and the Jews.  I'm sure he'll continue to tell himself that he's been misunderstood.  He's not an antisemite at all!   Just because he uses Nazi imagery for Jews, those Jews think he's antisemitic.  Stupid Jews.

On my blog Bernard Bouton said he "hopes people could live together in peace".

Bernard Bouton lives in a country where Jews are scared to walk the streets.  And instead of helping them, he stabs them in the back, using his cartoonist pen.

Bernard Bouton supports one of the most antisemitic regimes in the world today.

Bernard Bouton encourages hatred and terrorism against Jews.

If that's not antisemitism, I don't know what is.

Finland: How A Leftist Meme Became A White Supremacist Comic Strip

Remember, kids.  Though it may look like it, this is NOT anti-semitism.  It's anti-Zionism.  

Via BuzzFeed:

Anti-Semitism makes for unlikely bedfellows, a point you might infer from the strange history of “Jew-bwa-ha-ha.gif” (also known as “Le Happy Merchant”), the derogatory Jewish caricature beloved in equal measure by message board white supremacists and just-for-the-lulz trolls, and in fact created by a 90s version of the latter for a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

And now, to that noxious brew, add another ingredient: the Finnish internet.

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Le American Bear seems to have started out as simply a parody of Americans: He’s stupid, he’s addicted to hamburgers, he thinks drinking Diet Coke is good for his health, and he’s willing to protect his freedoms with a gun.

Quickly, however, the main dynamic of the comic was established: “Le Happy Merchant”, who Le American Bear uncritically accepts as his “greatest ally”, repeatedly tricks Le American Bear into acts of violence and self-harm that either enrich Le Happy Merchant, serve Israel, or both. It’s a modern version of a centuries-old trope, a Der Sturmer cartoon run through a chan filter. The fact that the cartoons are funny, in the internet-culture way, is the scariest thing about them.