Cementing Hate on Holocaust Memorial Day
January 27, 2013 15:26 by Simon Plosker
This cartoon published in The Sunday Times (subscription-only) would be offensive at the best of times. That it has appeared on Holocaust Memorial Day is doubly so.
Penned by Gerald Scarfe (the cartoonist behind Pink Floyd’s The Wall), the caption reads: “Israeli Elections… Will Cementing Peace Continue?”
A hideous looking PM Benjamin Netanyahu caricature builds a wall cemented with blood, crushing Palestinians including women and children.
Israel’s security barrier (of which the vast majority is a fence and not a wall) is meant to protect Israeli civilians against Palestinian terrorism. In any case, the imagery of this cartoon amounts to a blood libel on a day when the millions of victims of the Holocaust are remembered.
In response, The Commentator’s Raheem Kassam states:
In conversation with a friend of mine recently, I was asked, “Do you think in 200 years time, people will have forgotten the Holocaust, or believe that it was a myth?” I naively responded, “No. I believe there are enough good people in the world to ensure that doesn’t happen.” At the time, I would never have thought the editors of the Sunday Times were in amongst those who would seek, in true Der Sturmer fashion, to use Holocaust Memorial Day to publish a blood libel, and knowingly undermine the memory of one of the worst genocides ever.
HonestReporting CEO Joe Hyams said:
Holocaust Memorial Day is an opportunity to remember the most appalling atrocities carried out in modern history. It should also be a day when the media remembers that Israel’s actions to defend its citizens bear no relation whatsoever to the genocidal crimes of the Nazis. On any day, this cartoon’s imagery is an assault on the real victims of genocide, demeans their suffering and insults their memory. The Sunday Times should be mindful that what started as cartoons in the 1930′s ultimately led to violence and unspeakable tragedy. This is a lesson that The Sunday Times has clearly not absorbed.
How could The Sunday Times stoop so low?
Write to The Sunday Times and demand an apology and retraction - feedback@thetimes.co.uk
martin
7:17 pm
Feb 13, 2013
I am familiar with Shlomo ben Ami (Solomon son of my people) who in my opinionlives up to his chosen name (peace) but not to his family name. He is a eal leftwing advocate for the Meretz party. This is a very far left party which has connection with many NGOs that are funded by overseas countries and organisations to demonize and delegitimise Israel. He is of the same ilk as Beilin and Peres, both of whom worked with their Jew/Israel hating Norwegian counterparts in Oslo. I do not exaggerate my comments about the Norwegians, with sufficient documentary evidence to prove it. They both should have been tried for treason, at the time what they did was illegal.
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martin
7:24 pm
Feb 13, 2013
Brian, you mentioned Ha’Aretz earlier and now Shlomo ben Ami. We had a Ha Aretz journalist on this site criticised for his anti Israel comments. Well, both he and ben Ami are of a similar ilk. Ordinary Israeli citizens have no time for extreme leftwing views and comments which play into the hands of Israel’s enemies. Many Jewish born leftwingers have found a new religion, called socialism. They make abig thing about being Jewish Or Israeli aka Chomsky. These people are a tiny but very vocal minority which the international socialists adore for their work against the interests of Israel.
Yehuda Avnes an observant socialist Jew originally from Manchester, I believe, It’s a great book
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martin
7:28 pm
Feb 13, 2013
Brian, I just remembered a place to check out books online
JEWISH VIRTUAL LIBRARY. Peruse through and see what you are looking for..
Perhaps where you live, a library might stock some books. If you are in the UK, and near Ross on Wye, they have a huge amount of used books there.
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Brian Jones
11:59 am
Feb 14, 2013
It’s ok, I can get all these books easily. But it seems you just label anyone who doesn’t agree with the dominant narrative a “self-hating jew/jew-hater”. Question is, when trying to understand 1948, should one believe the account of Efraim Karsh, Ilan Pappe, or Benny Morris, who all have very different views? The one you choose will likely depend on your pre-existing beliefs. Truth is a slippery thing, and it’s a good deal more complex than any one train of thought. Even though I fundamentally disagree with Karsh, I still take a lot from his writing and find it useful. A good book for Pal views is “What it Means to be Palestinian”. The author doesn’t represent it as truth, just interviews.
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martin
2:46 pm
Feb 14, 2013
Brian we receive a continual barrage of pro Arab and Fakestinian misinformation. I really don’t want to see anymore. They have wasted many $billions of tax paters money as it is, when other more deserving people need real help instead. People such as Ilan Pappe are well known for extreme leftwing views, and I take it all with a pinch of salt.
Brian on this page you can see the free ebook on the Israel – Arab conflict. Try that, it is as good as any. If we appear to be correct, that’s because we are. I have seen and heard more than sufficient hatred even on a personal level from these Arasb fanatics. They are what are and therefore, to me, they deserve what they have in life.
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Brian Jones
3:57 pm
Feb 14, 2013
That’s fine. I’ll read the books you recommended, even if you seem entirely determined to only draw information from sources which represent the view you already hold. But you don’t appear to be correct. You appear to be committed to a massively simplified history which cannot accomodate any kind of challenge, a stubborn refusal to consider the experiences of others, an absurd belief that Israeli identity is somehow more ‘authentic’ than Palestinian, and a parroting of the official discourse which papers over any kind of reflective self-doubt, any recognition that history simply cannot be as simple and one-sided as you portray and a complete lack of critical analysis of the sources you use.
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emes
1:36 am
Feb 15, 2013
Brian Jones and Martin – get a room! – your clogging up my air space!! – happy valentines day!
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martin
12:42 pm
Feb 15, 2013
Ha haha That’s alright Emes (truth) I’ll blow you a kiss too, I believe in inclusion.
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A jew whose nose was broken by prohitler muslims
3:47 am
Mar 22, 2013
the picture which displays netanjahu as a bad vampire is enough for me to see who is behind this international antisemite conspiracy. it’s neonazi groups from evrywhere, which all have to be closed and all members jailed for very long.
The anti-israel, anti-jewish haters will not win. they won 1933 to 1945 in germany. they the nazis on purpose massmurdered my own almost total family.
now, new muslims come who praise hitler. they must be jailed. many bad countries don’t do that. why, this WILL end in ww3 if we don’t prevent jihadalkaida from taking over the world. sci movies predict that that would happen. all uk taken over by islamic fanatics.
I don’t want that. Do sumtn gainst it or …!
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A jew whose nose was broken by prohitler muslims
3:53 am
Mar 22, 2013
also, see what was said by really many neonazis on yahoo:
news DOT yahoo DOT com/jews-greece-mark-wwii-nazi-deportation-223745848.html
many neonazi antisemites were there like an allegedly female (?
) poster called “madison”, another called “ray”, what they said is equal to what hitler said: “jews are evil etc.” is the main “motto” of those brainwashed AMERICANS. Most Americans ARE NOT like that, I know. But SOME are. NO European who’s not a scum neonazi, would EVER be SO drastical in their OVERT antisemitism, SO EXTREME, as THOSE FEW ones aMONG the Americans. Those few ones who are those “strongly”-antisemite being ones, are equal to hitler. bad allusions to one old Star Trek episode..
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