So, the Times ran a full-page ad (PDF) on the back of the Week in Review section on Sunday featuring this lovely, vaguely anti-Semitic cartoon. Of course, the group behind the ad, the Council for the National Interest Foundation, is only the latest to make hay of the contemptible Walt/Mearsheimer "Israel Lobby" paper.
It seems the Times might exercise some discretion before running an ad doing the bidding of Hamas and taking seriously the claim that "we in Hamas are for peace." The Times holds the First Amendment as absolute, you say? Yes, we all remember the Times running the Danish cartoons (not to mention its support for campaign-finance regulation).
And, one other side note: You doubt the cartoon above is anti-Semitic? Well, check out the cartoonist’s Web site, which features such familiar tropes as Jews-as-cannibals.
There’s a reason the Times has the reputation it has.
And there’s a reason opposition to Israel always walks hand-in-hand with anti-Semitism. They are one and the same.
Good anti-Semitic art is a matter of balancing enduring, historical myths with a new spin.
I’m so used to us being portrayed as devils, vampires, rats, insects, spiders, leeches and snakes, that saying we are giant, bestial, sub-human apes is actually a refreshing change of pace. I want to compliment the cartoonist on his motif.
He didn’t even have to show us drinking blood or wearing swastika’s to get across his hatred of Jews.
Great job, Khalil! You are a very talented bigot.
A balanced cartoon would show sad little suicide Arab bombers, buggered from a young age, yearing for redemption by martyrdom, and sadly denied the change to kill non-combatant children. They are told that is the only way to make up for their “sin”.
A balanced cartoon would show the Saudi financed lobby, 17 times the size of the 500 pound gorilla, the shape of a very large dinosaur, complaining that he only wants his right to eat his normal meaty lunch. Of course there would be bones spread over the entire land outside the wall, some 2000 times the space protected by the Wall.
Of course there is a lobby for Israel. In Washington there is a lobby for EVERYTHING. For anti semitics, lobbies and walls are only wrong when they support Jews. Guns are only bad when they protect Jews. The problem is not that the Arabs don’t have enough land, it is that Jews have any.
josephgrossberg,
the cartoonist is not that original to deserve a prize, he just used a classical Islamic drill this time - ‘Jews and Christians as sons of monkeys’.