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28 April 2019
SPECIAL NOTICE
We are all aware of the murderous attack at the Chabad Synagogue at Poway, California yesterday. 60-year-old Lori Kaye was killed when she saved the Chabad rabbi by stepping between him and the gunman.
Lori Kaye.
May Lori Kaye’s memory be forever blessed.
The News on the Israeli Street
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
In Judea and Samaria:
Palestinian terrorists using Molotovs and “rocks” attacked Israelis near the Al-Khader Junction, between Tapuach and Ariel, south of the T-Junction, on the Jerusalem Road, near Marda, throughout Gush Etzion, and in the vicinity of Tekoa.
One piece of good news–the Palestinian terrorist who attacked Israelis at the Tapuach Junction last week died this morning.
On the Gaza border:
Another day with more launches of explosive balloons by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza into southern Israel–the hardest hit areas were at Besor and Kfar Maimon.
TODAY’S BLOG:
From the The New York Times to the Warsaw Ghetto to Poway
There is no need to explain this anti-Semitic cartoon more than just saying that a blind Trump is being led by the Jewish dog Netanyahu.
This is the type of cartoon one might have expected to see in Der Sturmer in the 1930s along side an article about how Jews were attempting to destroy European culture–or perhaps see in a newspaper today in Ramallah, Cairo, or Amman where there is a constant rant against Jews.
But no.
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This “cartoon” was drawn by Portuguese cartoonist Antonio Antunes Moreira and appeared on Thursday in The New York Times beside an article “A Sad Waste of a Crisis on Immigration” written by Thomas Friedman. Friedman’s piece approvingly quotes a description of the Trump Administration as one perpetuating “gratuitous brutalities”–one of Friedman’s continual criticisms of Israel.
What is gratuitous and egregious of course is the anti-Semitism of the cartoon: the old dual loyalty trope ascribed to Trump via the kipa (yarmulke) that he is wearing; the portrayal of a Jew as a dog (how many times did we Jews portrayed as animals in Der Sturmer?); and the use of a Star of David to denigrate.
Not that it is surprising, but what is also egregious is the total lack of editorial discretion used by the editorial staff of the Times. It is especially egregious given the cartoonist who drew the cartoon.
That cartoonist is Portuguese cartoonist Antonio Antunes Moreira*–a cartoonist already well known for his anti-Semitism. Perhaps the most famous example of this was the cartoon that Moreira drew back in 1983 which depicted Israeli soldiers allegedly abusing Lebanese civilians:
Note the small boy in the front right of the “cartoon” with his hands raised and the way the Israeli soldiers are depicted.
Israeli soldiers are identified by the Star of David on their Nazi-styled helmets and by their Nazi-styled jackboots. Sickeningly, this anti-Semitic cartoon actually won the Grand Prize in a Canadian cartoon contest back in 1983.
At the time, Moreira’s cartoon was widely castigated for its anti-Semitism, not only because of the way that Israelis were portrayed but also because it defamed the Holocaust by being a rip-off of this actual photograph of Jews being rounded up by Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto:
One of the most iconic photos from the Holocaust.
Amazingly, one of the judges in the Canadian contest attempted to deflect the criticism of the cartoon by saying “The most sensitive people today are Israelis and Jews outside of Israel. . . “
Isn’t it amazing how Jews were blamed then, and are blamed now, for being “too sensitive” about anti-Semitism?
Doesn’t it remind you of the attitude of the world in the 1930s? Jews are supposed to just overlook daily displays of anti-Semitism as “anomalies”. As we all know, in the 1930s these displays led to the Holocaust; these days, displays on Facebook, Instagram, and on social media everywhere lead to murderous gunmen attacking Jews in a Chabad in Mumbai, a Chabad in Kenya, a synagogue in Pittsburgh, and a Chabad in Poway.
Every time a Jew is killed such as 60-year-old Lori Kaye in Poway yesterday, the world wrings its hands for five minutes, holds a few candlelight vigils, and then goes back to tolerating anti-Semitism.
One final note. We started this blog today by noting that the “cartoon” in the New York Times was like something straight out of Der Sturmer. It is no coincidence that the murderer at Poway wrote in his pre-attack manifesto: “Every Jew is responsible for the meticulously planned genocide of the European race.”
Addendum 1: Antonio Antunes Moreira also goes by Antonio Moreira Antunes.
Addendum 2: As of the writing of this blog, The New York Times has yet to apologize for the cartoon–merely expressing that its editorial staff showed “poor judgment.”
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.