Sunday Times Anti Semitic Cartoon

[Gromit]

Is it?

http://www.barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/TIMES-CARTOON-e13593581196941.jpg

Murdoch has apologised

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21239917

[woofgang]

Blimey....what idiot let that one through?

[AB Editor]

Just added the cartoon in.

I don't think it was antisemitic at all... not sure what the problem was, apart from the timing (not that the day means much to people...)

[jake-the-peg]

Hardly anti-semitic

Anti-Israeli - possibly

It seems the moment anybody criticises Israel certain characters scream "Anti-semitism!!"

[sandyRoe]

How is it anti Semitic? Anyone who has the temerity to criticise Israel seems to be labelled with that tag.

[Sqad]

No...sorry....I can't see an anti-semetic link.

Have i missed something obvious?

[AB Editor]

(by which I mean "Holocaust Day" isn't marked particularly and it feels a bit like an insult to boil the whole thing down to just the naming of a single day)

[Sqad]

semitic...;-(

[woofgang]

I think the amputated heads and limbs and the bloodstained mortar is (are?) taking things a bit far.

[jake-the-peg]

That's brave ed

Do you fancy adding in the Dutch cartoons depicting Mohammed too so that we can compare?

[woofgang]

I do agree about the difference between jews and Israel though.

[AB Editor]

"Anyone who has the temerity to criticise Israel seems to be labelled with that tag."

Yep. Not sure why it's a story - although I suppose the REAL story is that Murdoch thought he should apologize for it...

[AB Editor]

"Do you fancy adding in the Dutch cartoons depicting Mohammed too so that we can compare?"

Which one? :)

"I think the amputated heads and limbs and the bloodstained mortar is (are?) taking things a bit far."

I think it's the grotesque stuff which gives political cartoons their "oomph"

[AB Editor]

Will this one do Jake? http://tundratabloids.com/2012/09/day4-of-obligatory-mohamed-cartoon-posting.html

[Ellipsis]

"Will cementing peace continue?" - I think this cartoon makes a good point in a strong way. OTOH it's a cartoon of a PM, not a prophet or a God.

On the R4 Today programme this morning, Stephen Pollard of the Jewish Chronicle said that everybody should look at the cartoon for themselves and decide whether it showed "Benjamin Netanyahu glorying in the blood of Palestinians".

You can hear the full interview here (my quote above was from the very end of it) ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21241785

[jno]

not remotely anti-Semitic, but many Israelis instantly claim that the slightest criticism of their government is anti-Semitism. Occasionally it is; this isn't.

Murdoch has apologised but the Sunday Times seems not to have - unlike the Guardian, which backed down in a similar case a couple of months back. So good for them.

[maggiebee]

So Murdoch apologised?? Would take that with a very large pinch of salt. It's very easy to apologise after thousands of people have seen it and it's been copied on to sites like this all over the world. Murdoch doesn't give a stuff.

[ludwig]

Obviously not anti-semitic, as everyone has said.
Murdoch shouldn't have apologised.

[ludwig]

I missed the connection with Holocaust memorial day, which does change things slightly. Insensitive timing, that's why he's apologised.

[FredPuli43]

Political commentary. not anti-semitic. Makes you wonder how Hogarth and others would have fared nowadays!

Was in Jerusalem when an American Jew from New York was complaining about the service in the hotel. He said to his family, of the Jewish Israeli staff, " You have to understand, I guess. They are not really Jewish!". That distinction sums it up, in a way. He meant they were not on the ball, not quick and efficient, like Jews in New York would be. Jews, but no Jew-ish; they were like kibbitzers. There's a big difference between disliking Israel and the policy of its government and disliking Jews or Judaism

[emmie]

pretty repulsive, an apology has been made by Rupert Murdoch