Friday's Emory Wheel (pdf) featured this cartoon by student Dylan Woodliff.
Alongside the cartoon, amazingly enough, was Woodliff's 251-word explanation.
I have no intention of inciting a connection with the Holocaust . . .
Of course, that's the whole point of his cartoon. The paper gave Deborah Lipstadt op-ed space to reply:
There is a serious problem in the Middle East but Woodliff’s glib comparison of Jews to Nazis is not only ill-informed, it demonstrates a certain prejudice — antisemitism — which will never help resolve the situation. Whatever one thinks of Israeli policy, to describe it as akin to the Nazi policy of murdering all of European Jewry is to engage in antisemitism and a form of Holocaust denial.
Finally, I was struck by the explanatory note the Woodliff appended to the drawing. No editorial cartoon should need an explanation or an addendum. If the cartoonist is any good, his work should speak for itself.
