Spot the Antisemitic Cartoon!
For centuries, the Blood Libel — the accusation that Jews consumed Gentile children (or their blood) for ritual purposes — was a sure-fire way to whip the population into an antisemitic frenzy.
Today, the Arab Press is unabashed in evoking the Blood Libel, but in contemporary Europe, that would be deemed “unsophisticated.”
Oh no! We didn’t mean that. We were … umh … quoting Goya!
says the Independent.
(Al Quds, May 17, 2001)
(The Independent, Jan 27, 2003)
There’s a lively discussion over at Alas, a Blog — political cartoonist Barry Deutsch’s blog.
His blog is achingly beautifully designed. Seeing it makes me want to tear up and redo the design of mine.
Must … resist … !
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The Independent responds to antisemitic cartoon charges
Weblog: Alas, a Blog
Excerpt: Here's the cartoon in question... And read this link explaining what the blood libel myth is, if you don't know already. Trish Wilson provides a link to The Independent's response page: it includes three defenses of the cartoon, one written...
Tracked: August 28, 2004 12:00 PM
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Comic Relief
Weblog: The Chucklehut
Excerpt: I have not been keeping up with the world on-line, limiting my input to television, radio, and the legitimate stage that all the world, as some say, is. So I don’t know if what I have to say here is...
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WAC Promoting Moral Equivalency on 9/11?
Weblog: Blogbat
Excerpt: On September 11, the World Affairs Council will be screening a film some might consider sympathetic to terrorists. The HBO-produced documentary about the Arab-Israeli conflict titled, “To Die in Jerusalem” essentially seems to...
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