Anti-Semitic European Cartoons

By Dale Hurd

CBN News Sr. Reporter

March 6, 2008

CBNNews.com - The following are examples of how recent cartoons in Europe follow the anti-semitic tones of Nazi propaganda.

CARTOONS FROM EUROPE:

1. Published in La Stampa, Italy. April 3, 2002. Baby Jesus: Surely they don't want to kill me again?!

2. Published in Eleftherotypia, Greece. March 27, 2004.

Woman: Why did the Jewish Government kill a religious leader (Sheik Yassin)?
Man: They are practicing for Easter.

3. Published in Dagbladet, Norway. July 10, 2006. "Olmert the Nazi."

This depicts Isreali Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as a concentration camp commandante, replicating a scene from the movie Schindler's List.

4. Published in The London Independent, January 2003.

This was the 2003 political cartoon of the year in Britain. It depicts Ariel Sharon biting the head off a Palestinian baby. Editorial cartoonist Dave Brown of Britain's Independent penned this horrible allusion to the Goya painting, with Ariel Sharon eating a Palestinian child.

5. Published in 1942. Nazi propaganda. The Nazis believed Jews controlled American foreign policy. Here, President Franklin Roosevelt is depicted as as kowtowing to the Jews. This also links the Jews to the Communists.

7. Published in the London Guardian, July 19, 2006. This portrayed Israeli military action in Lebanon. A retraction was printed the following day.

8. Nazi propaganda poster for a documentary 1940 film, The Eternal Jew. The film compared Jews to rats, said they were filthy and were prone to birth defects.

FROM NEW ZEALAND:

6. Published in Christchurch Press, New Zealand. August 10, 2006. Similar to the Nazi propaganda, this depicts the belief that President Bush only listens to the Jews.

CARTOONS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST: