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CDC Issues Warning to Jewish Doctors with Daughters. National Lampoon, 2001.
"The Center for Disease Control issued a warning today to all physicians born of Jewish descent that their daughters could be 1000 times more likely than non-Jewish doctors' daughters to become slutty, sexually-charged adultering whores. The CDC has already identified what they refer to as a 'Major Slut-Whore Cluster' in Southern California. Tomorrow, they plan to obtain blood and semen samples from Jewish M.D.'s in the region including: Dr. Fleiss, father of Heidi Fleiss, Dr. Lewinsky, father of Monica Lewinsky and Dr. Levy, father of Chandra Levy. Researchers remain baffled as to why this strange disease: SDS (Slutty Daughter Syndrome) seems to afflict only the daughters of Jewish doctors."

Jewish Jokes and Anti-Semitism.
Australian Journal of Comedy, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1995
"It is not an easy matter to locate that line between acceptability and nonacceptability. We might say that a Jewish joke is not anti-Semitic if it is conveyed by Jews, to Jews, about Jews, and neither explicitly asserts nor remotely implies disparagement of Jews as a group. It does appear to be anti-Semitic if it contains over-simplified and deprecating judgements and negative or inaccurate generalisations about Jews by non-Jews, and directly or indirectly furthers malignant stereotypes and/or leads to acts of intimidation, provocation, bigotry, prejudice,discrimination or physical aggression. In reality however, the distinctions are far more complicated and difficult to make, requiring a more careful, critical, and dispassionate evaluation of intention, purpose, and consequence, witting or unwitting."

Jewish Anti-Deprecation League Protests New Woody Allen Movie,
The Onion
"The Jewish Anti-Deprecation League picketed the New York premiere of Woody Allen's latest film, Waltzing With Schopenhauer, Monday, arguing that it 'perpetuates misleading stereotypes of Jewish self-deprecation that do not reflect the modern Jewish-American experience.' The JADL is decrying Allen's portrayal of the film's lead character, Reuben Hirschhorn, a Columbia University creative-writing professor who, despite achieving considerable personal and career success, is plagued by severe self-doubt, hypochondria, perceived sexual inadequacies, an inability to commit to long-term relationships, existential angst, an obsessive fear of death, and disturbing dreams involving his overbearing mother making chicken soup for Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels. 'Mr. Allen has made a career out of presenting his own foibles and insecurities as characteristic of all Jews,' JADL executive director Howard Klosterman said. 'Jews are tired of seeing themselves routinely represented as neurotics who can't enjoy their lives, no matter how successful, and Mr. Allen is one of the primary perpetrators of this offensive cliche.'"

'I Am Not an Anti-Semite!' jokezine.com
"'I am not an anti-Semite,' Hillary Clinton declared in a beer hall in a German blue-collar neighborhood outside of Buffalo, New York. She went on to explain, 'Die Rede ist von Miniatur-Lastwagen - bis aufs kleinste Detail den großen Originalen nachgebaut. Und das keineswegs nach Anleitung durch einen Bausatz, sondern der eigenen Kreativität entsprechend' to a chorus of thunderous applause."

Ali's Shocking Punch(line), Washington Post, December 18, 2001
"We have always admired Muhammad Ali, so we hoped our ears were deceiving us when we heard the 59-year-old former heavyweight champion of the world tell a couple of off-color jokes at the Washington premiere party for 'Ali,' the biopic starring Will Smith as the champ and Ron Silver as trainer Angelo Dundee. As Ali took the microphone at the Georgetown restaurant Cafe Milano – with Mayor Tony Williams standing behind him on the podium – Ali's fourth wife, Lonnie, could be heard advising him: 'No, no, no, don't.' But before a packed crowd that included Silver, Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, former Republican party chairman Frank Fahrenkopf and plutocrat-philanthropists Jim Kimsey and Joe Robert – Ali let 'er rip. 'What's the difference between a Jew and a canoe?' the legendary boxer asked, his voice slightly muffled from the effects of Parkinson's disease. 'A canoe tips!' The crowd, which included more than a few Jewish folks, including Silver, reacted with laughter – some of it uncomfortable."

Angered by Snubbing, Libya, China, Syria Form Axis of Just as Evil,
satire.com, February 2002
""In Speech, Bush Calls Iraq, Iran and North Korea 'Axis of Evil' -- N.Y. Times, 1/30/02 -- Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the 'Axis of Evil,' Libya, China, and Syria today announced they had formed the 'Axis of Just as Evil,' which they said would be way eviler than that stupid Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis President Bush warned of his State of the Union address ... While wondering if the other nations of the world weren't perhaps making fun of him, a cautious Bush granted approval for most axes, although he rejected the establishment of the Axis of Countries Whose Names End in 'Guay,' accusing one of its members of filing a false application. Officials from Paraguay, Uruguay, and Chadguay denied the charges. Israel, meanwhile, insisted it didn't want to join any Axis, but privately, world leaders said that's only because no one asked them."

Who Is a Comedian?, The Gantseh Megillah, Volume 3, Issue 3
"Listen to Jackie Mason: "A normal person wouldn't become a comedian. The egomania, the neurosis, the need to overcompensate, the feeling that life is meaningless without stardom - it's too much suffering." So who becomes a comedian? Groucho Marx, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Lenny Bruce, Jerry Seinfeld, the list goes on and on. There must be a reason here as well to explain not only why there are so many Jewish comedians today, but also why Jews throughout the ages have been known for their humor." [Jewish comedians cited by this web site include: Bud Abbott (mother was Jewish, Abbott & Costello), Woody Allen (Born Konigsberg), Marty Allen, Jason Alexander (Greenspan), Tom Arnold (converted to Judaism, has some Jewish lineage), Joey Adams (born Abramowitz, converted to Christian Science), Bea Arthur (born Bernice Frankel, Golden Girls, Maud), Ed Asner (Lou Grant, Bronx Zoo), Hank Azaria, Roseanne Barr, Richard Belzer, Richard Benjamin, Jack Benny (Benjamin Kubelsky), Milton "Uncle Miltie" Berle (Berlinger), Sandra Bernhard, Joey Bishop (the only living member of the "Rat Pack"), Elayne Boosler, Victor Borge (Danish Jew, Rosenbaum), David Brenner, Fanny Brice (Borach), Matthew Broderick (mother is Jewish, same as wife, Sarah Jessica Parker), Albert Brooks (Einstein), Mel Brooks (Kaminsky), George Burns (Nathan Birnbaum), Red Buttons (Aaron Chwatt), Lenny Bruce (Born Leonard Alfred Schneider), Eddie Cantor (Iskowitch), Andrew Dice Clay (Silverstein), Sid Ceasar, Billy Crystal, Rodney Dangerfield (Jacob Cohen, later changed it to Jack), Larry David (seinfeld creator/producer, star of "Curb your enthusiasm"), Fran Drescher, Marty "googly eyes" Feldman, Fyvush Finkel, Al Franken, Mitchell Friedman (Voted #1 Jewish Comic by the Young Jewish Alliance in 1999), Jackie Gayle, Brad Garrott (Gerstenfeld, "Everybody Loves Raymond"), Larry Gelbart (M*A*S*H), Gilbert Gottfried, Elliott Gould, Ellen Greene (Little Shop Of Horrors), Shecky Greene, Steve Guttenberg, Buddy Hackett, Goldie Hawn, Buck Henry (Zuckerman), Michael J. Herman ("The Next Big Thing" according to the LA Times), Danny Hoch, Gabriel Kaplan, Jonathan Katz (Dr. Katz, comedy central), Andy Kaufman, Danny Kaye (Kaminsky), Richard Kind, Andy Kindler, Alan King, Robert Klein, Jack Klugman (Odd Couple), Lisa Kudrow, Carol Liefer, Jerry Lewis (Jerome Levitch), Richard Lewis, Shari Lewis (Hurwitz, "Lambchops"), Hal Linden (Barney Miller), Jon Lovitz, Mal Z. Lawrence, Norman Lear (creator of The Jeffersons, All In The Family, Good Times), Bill Maher (mother is Jewish), Howie Mandel, Sally Marr (Lenny Bruce's mother, Joan Rivers portrayed her on Broadway), Marc Marron, The Marx Brothers, Jackie Mason (Maza), Walter Matthau (Matuschanskayasky), Elaine May (May/Nichols), Anne Meara (Stiller/Meara, converted to Judaism), Lorne Michaels (Lipowitz), Marilyn Michaels, Larry Miller, Rick Moranis (Ghostbusters, Honey, I Shrunk The Kids, Little Shop of Horrors), Zero Mostel, Taylor Negron (mother is Jewish), Mike Nichols (filmmaker, The Graduate, The Bird Cage, born Peschwosky), Super Dave Osbourne (brother of Albert Brooks, born Einstein), Kevin Pollak, Sarah Jessica Parker (mother is Jewish, same as hubby, Matthew Broderick), Rhea Pearlman, Freddie Prinze Sr. (father was Hungarian Jew), Freddie Prinze Jr., Gilda Radner, Harold Ramis (actor/director, Ghostbusters, Caddyshack, Groundhog Day), Tony Randall (Rosenberg), Carl Reiner, Rob Reiner, Paul Reiser, Paul Reubens (born Rubenfeld, aka Pee Wee Herman), Don Rickles, The Ritz Brothers, Joan Rivers (Molinsky), Freddy Roman, Rita Rudner, Bob Saget, Mort Sahl, Soupy Sales (Supman), Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider (half-Jew), Sherwood Schwartz (Gilligan's Island, The Brady Bunch), Robert Schimmel, David Schwimmer, George Segal, Jerry Seinfeld, Harry Shearer, Sarah Silverman, Mitzi Shore (owner of The Comedy Store), Pauly Shore (son of Sammy & Mitzi), Sammy Shore, Gary Shandling, Bobby Slayton (father is Jewish), Barry Sobel, David Steinberg, Matt Stone (Southpark), Yakoff Smirnoff ("What a Country!"), Jerry Stiller (Stiller/Meara), Ben Stiller, Peter Sellers (mother was Jewish), Howard Stern (contrary to his popular "half-Jew" shtick, Howie is a full blooded Jew), Jon Stewart (Leibowitz), Teller ("Penn & Teller, born Raymond Teller, father is Jewish), Brother Theodore (Born Gottlieb, frequent favorite of David Letterman), The Three Stooges (Horowitz), Bruce Vilanch, Gene Wilder (Jerome Silberman), Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot), Henry Winkler ("The Fonz" on Happy Days), Robert Wuhl, Henny Youngman.]

Queer Settlers Land on Berkeley Starbucks,
QUIT!, August 2002
"About 25 queer settlers descended on a downtown Berkeley Starbucks [the Starbucks chain is owned by Jewish Zionist activist Howard Schultz] on Saturday, August 17, claiming Berkeley as 'a city without people for people without a city.' The group, organized by Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT!), posted a banner proclaiming the reclaimed café 'Queerkeley – A Prophecy Fulfilled.' They also erected homes (transformed 'Palestinian civilian homes reclaimed from another street theatre action'), lawn furniture, and signs reading, 'It Works In Palestine, Why Not Here?' and 'It’s Ours Because We Say So.' They erected plastic palm trees to 'make the concrete bloom,' and gave patrons a tract explaining their religious claim to the land ..."

Why Not Me?: The Inside Story of the Making and Unmaking of the Franken Presidency,
by Al Franken, Book Browse,
"From [Franken's] Book Jacket: First came Theodore White's The Making of the President, 1960. Then All the President's Men. Now the searing chronicle that will forever change the way we view the man and the office . . . The dramatic rise and dizzying fall of Al Franken, who would become the first Jewish president of the United States. Franken began his unique American journey in the small town of Christhaven, Minnesota ... Go behind the scenes and meet Team Franken, the candidate's brain trust. Including brother and deputy campaign manager Otto, a recovering sex addict and alcoholic ... Cheer as Franken stuns the pundits by defeating Al Gore for the Democratic nomination, then is swept into office with a landslide victory over Newt Gingrich. And he chooses an all-Jewish Cabinet because 'America doesn't want a Cabinet that looks like America, it wants a Cabinet the President is comfortable with.'"

Amy's Answering Machine,
Amy's Answering Machine
"If your mother's calls drive you crazy, just hear the messages Amy Borkowsky gets from her mom."

Grad Student Deconstructs Take-Out Menu,
The Onion,
"CAMBRIDGE, MA—Jon Rosenblatt, 27, a Harvard University English graduate student specializing in modern and postmodern critical theory, deconstructed the take-out menu of a local Mexican restaurant 'out of sheer force of habit' Monday. 'What's wrong with me?' Rosenblatt asked fellow graduate student Amanda Kiefer following the incident. 'Am I completely losing my mind? I just wanted to order some food from Burrito Bandito. Next thing I know, I'm analyzing the menu's content as a text, or 'text,' subjecting it to a rigorous critical reevaluation informed by Derrida, De Man, etc., as a construct, or 'construct,' made up of multi-varied and, in fact, often self-contradictory messages, or 'meanings,' derived from the cultural signifiers evoked by the menu, or 'menu,' and the resultant assumptions within not only the mind of the menu's 'authors' and 'readers,' but also within the larger context of our current postmodern media environment. Man, I've got to finish my dissertation before I end up in a rubber room.'"

Exerpts from "The Shikse's Guide to Jewish Men"

Is This a Joke? Jewish Humor Fails To Make List of Funniest Jests,
[Jewish] Forward, October 25, 2002
"Rabbi Moshe Waldoks recently left an angry message on the Forward's voicemail service. 'I'm curious to hear what someone has the nerve to call 'the funniest joke,'" growled the disgusted co-author of 'The Big Book of Jewish Humor.' 'What chutzpah!' The wise men of Chelm would be turning in their graves if they knew of the results of a study published earlier this month that named the most widely praised jokes throughout Europe and North America. While, according to Waldoks, 60% to 70% of people in the humor industry (writers, comedians, etc.) are Jews, there is not a single joke involving Jews in the survey's top tier. LaughLab, created by the University of Hertfordshire in England and the British Association for the Advancement of Science, conducted a yearlong survey via the Internet, in which more than 2 million people passed judgment on 40,000 jokes. 'There aren't 40,000 gentile jokes," huffed Alan King, the comic's comic and author of the brand-new 'Alan King's Great Jewish Joke Book' (Crown). 'If there are, they've been changed.' The British, King told the Forward, are 'carriers of bad humor. India wasn't funny, South Africa wasn't funny, so what do they know?' ... Waldoks says that he doubts that the absence of Jewish jokes indicates any overt antisemitism on behalf of the world at-large. 'I think it's an ignorance,' Waldoks said, not any lack of material."

It's good to be a Jew in Canada. Is this country anti-Semitic? Not compared to all the rest, says B'nai Brith counsel,
Toronto Globe and Mail, Marvin Kurz, January 8, 2003
"A joke is told about a rabbi asked to officiate over a funeral for Harry, a man he did not know. He gets to the podium and asks whether anyone who knew poor Harry could come forward to say a few kind words about the deceased. No one comes forward. He asks again, pointing to the men he is told were the poker buddies of the dear departed. Again, no response. Finally, he cries out in desperation: 'Can't anyone say anything good about Harry?' Finally, a shriveled man at the back of the room stands up and declares: 'His brother Morris was worse!'"

Lenny Bruce,
"Anyway, the whole of Lenny's performances were always packed with Yiddish words and phrases and to really get into him was an education in that pungent argot all by itself. Lenny used Yiddish as a symbol of the cumulative value of a culture in which chicken soup can be made into a delicacy and he used Goyishe ["non-Jewish"] to signify the culture of machine-made, cellophane-wrapped, least-common-denominator, mass-produced food."

Joseph Lieberman Campaign,
Joseph 2004

A Joke,
Poetry in Motion 4 All,
"An Englishman, an American, a Chinese, a Palestinian and an Israeli, are drinking a cup of coffee, when 5 individual flies appear and one each lands in one of their respective cups. - The Englishman pushes his cup away, and goes to get a new one. - The American pulls the fly out, tortures it a little [what the heck, just for the fun of it] throws it away, and drinks the coffee. - The Chinese man throws the coffee away and eats the fly. - The Palestinian [besieged and starving as he is] drinks the coffee, eats the fly and is on the look out for more. - The Israeli: sells his coffee to Englishman, claiming no fly has ever been in it, sells the fly to the Chinese man as a 'delicatessen' , demands that the Palestinian prevents any and all flying insects from landing in his coffee, shoots the Palestinian's son in retaliation for the terrorist attack launched by the fly, takes his coffee and his fly before the Palestinian succeeds in consuming them [and, of course, sells them as well] and then demands that the American gives him $60 billion to buy a new cup of coffee and 80% of the coffee-shop. The world in a nutshell."

[Apparently this depth of Jewish obsession about the Holocaust isn't a joke. Note the image and the Anti-Defamation's complaint about it at the link below.]
Cease & desist letter - ADL,
rotten.com, April 2000
"Because this picture reminds certain Jews of the Holocaust, they are demanding that we remove it. Suddenly anything that reminds Jews of the Holocaust, even things that have nothing to do with it, verboten? A high percentage of our staff is Jewish. After all rotten.com is part of the media conspiracy that Marlon Brando was kind enough to inform us about."

From: Alan King's "Great Jewish Joke Book" (2002):
"Two beggars were sitting on a park bench in Mexico City. One held a crucifix and the other a Star of David. Both held hats to collect contributions. People walked by, lifted their noses at the man with the Star of David, and dropped money in the hat held by the man with the crucifix. Soon the hat of the man with the cross was filled to overflowing, while the hat of the man with the Star of David was completely empty. A priest walking by noticed the men and approached them. He said to the man with the Star of David, "Young man. Don't you realize that this is a Catholic country? You'll never get any contributions in this country holding a Star of David." The man with the Star of David turned to the beggar with the cross and said, "Moishe, can you imagine, this ditz is trying to tell us how to run our business?"

Chatological Humor. The Saddest Chat Hosted,
by Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, November 4, 2003
"Gene Weingarten's controversial humor column, Below the Beltway, appears every Sunday in the Washington Post Magazine. He aspires to someday become a National Treasure, but is currently more of a National Gag Novelty Item, like rubber dog poo ... Gene Weingarten: Good afternoon. Noodling around on the keyboard yesterday, I came up with the term "julatto," meaning someone who is half Jewish and half gentile. It describes many excellent people of my acquaintance, including my own children, the Czar's children, Pat the Perfect's children, the Auxiliary Czar's children, and no less formidable a figure than Tom the Butcher, the editor of my column. I did a quick Google search and discovered not a single prior appearance of this term anywhere on the Web. This excited me beyond all reason, and I began sending out dozens of self-congratulatory e-mails to friends, relatives, total strangers, editors of dictionaries, etc. At this point, pthep - with her icy, maddening, know-it-all calm -- urged me to check for "Jewlatto," which resulted in 21 hits. I am not particularly bothered by this. For one thing, my term is more elegant. Second, "Jewlatto" seems to have been hijacked by racists. So, in fact, MY term is rescuing a noble concept from being consigned to the dunghill of history. However, it then occurred to me that, possibly, the term was in some way offensive to African Americans. But some research among African Americans proved this not to be the case. However, one African-American I asked said he found the "Ju" part to be potentially offensive to JEWS. (This is a very complicated subject.) It is true that, for some reason, the term "Jew" sounds worse to people than the term "Jewish," almost as though it was an epithet. (You never hear the KKK fulminate about "Jewish people.") So I was going to reluctantly jettison this whole excellent neologism until I suddenly remembered something my ma - an actual 100 percent Jewish person - used to say whenever some matter of public debate arose: "Is it good for The Jews?" This is, in fact, the anthem of the WWII-era Jewish American. So, "Jew" is inoculated. "Julatto" is fine. I am going with it. Consider it out there. This is now archived forever in this chat, the first public use of the term. And you just know it is going to spread, because We control the media."

[Hmmm. What's the subtext of this news story? Anti-Semitism is so rampant in today's world that Jews endorse it? Or that the Jews who dominate the TV world have quaint in-house squabbles about what's kosher to laugh about? Or is the point that Jewish men don't just have "contempt for Jewish women," they have contempt for everyone?]
Anne Frank Jokes OK for Comedy Central Prep Show,
Newsmax, Novembe 27, 2003
"Jon Hayman, a former "Seinfeld" writer and Jewish, recently did a routine on a Comedy Central-sponsored "Sit ’n Spin" night that left some in the audience and backstage groaning. The comic pretended to be Anne Frank reading a typical teenage girl's summer camp diary entries – only the camp in the sketch was Auschwitz. Hayman's routine had Frank, who actually died in Bergen-Belsen, innocently wondering why the Dachau and Auschwitz softball teams wore the same uniforms, referring to the pulling of gold teeth as camp arts and crafts, and offering lewd descriptions of sexual encounters with historical figures such as Jackie Kennedy, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., according to Forward magazine. Annie Korzen, a comic actress who had a small recurring role on "Seinfeld," heckled Hayman afterward, calling him an "abomination." Korzen in her rebuttal routine called Hayman's routine an example of "the contempt that some Jewish men have for Jewish women." Ron Zimmerman, who has been a producer on the WB's family drama "Seventh Heaven," then took the stage and read from Holocaust revisionist literature, asking why Korzen was not heckling. Finally, the management cut his set short, announcing the show's end and cuing the house band. Zimmerman shouted: "Imbeciles! Get out! And I won't leave the stage until you're all gone! The last Jewish man standing, that's what I am!" Some of the comedy writers, says Forward, are still upset by what they see as the intrusion of prudishness into their oasis for ribald humor."

A Modest Proposal for the Suppression of Negro Terrorism in the United States,
By Tefel Hall, Academic Papers, November 12, 2002
"What would happen if America treated Blacks the same way that Israel treats Palestinians? This paper proposes just that. It is modeled after Jonathan Swift's satirical essay, "A Modest Proposal For Preventing the Poor People in Ireland From Being Aburden to Their Parents or Country, and For Making Them Beneficial to The Public." What is the proper name for black-on-white violence? Let us call it what it is: Negro terrorism. How else can we label the kind of violence which rocked Cincinnati last year? ... The solution The problem of Negro terrorism may seem intractable, but in fact it is easily solved. All that is required is some innovative thinking, and it is in this spirit that I make the following proposal: the US Congress should immediately repeal the 14th and 15th amendments to the US Bill of Rights. By repealing the 14th amendment, we could deny Negroes due process and equal protection under the law; by repealing the 15th amendment, we could also deny them the right to vote. With these simple changes, whites could once again gain supremacy over their own homeland. Naturally, a few minor technicalities would have to be overcome. For example, our legislators would have to define exactly who is a "Negro." In the 19th century, Negroes were sometimes defined as anyone with "one drop" of Negro blood, while to be considered white, one had to have "pure" white ancestry (Wikipedia). Such criteria may be too stringent for modern sensibilities, but that should not discourage us from trying to define race. Instead, we might look at the example of another democracy with a terrorism problem: Israel. Israel is probably the only western democracy that still has race laws, and the way that Israel enforces these laws should prove helpful to us in America. For example, Israeli law currently defines a "Jew" as anyone with at least one Jewish grandparent (M.F.A.). Following this model, the U.S. might stipulate that anyone who wished to be classified as "white" must prove that their ancestry is at least one-quarter northern European. And, like Israel, we could periodically alter this definition, in order to ensure that the white race always has a substantial political majority. Israel also provides us with an excellent example of how we might deflect charges of racism. Artfully, Israel has relatively few laws which are explicitly racist, and since most of these laws deal with immigration, it is hard to unequivocally denounce them. After all, is it not the right of every country to control its immigration policy, even to the extent of admitting or rejecting only certain races? ... Think of the possibilities: 1) We could take away the political rights of all Negroes and other nettlesome minorities (about 1/3 of our total population). If anyone thinks this percentage is unjustly high, we can point out that Israel also denies 1/3 of its inhabitants the right to vote, based solely on their race. 2) We could also abridge the rights of an additional 11% of our population, just like Israel. These restrictions should be targeted at knee-jerk liberals, who may be tempted to provide support for terrorist minorities. 3) We could establish "white-only" communities similar to the "Jewish-only" settlements which can be found throughout Israel (Masra). That way, law-abiding white Americans would not have to live next door to Negro terrorists. 4) We could establish a network of "white-only" roads, just as Israel has built a network of roads for "Jews-only" (Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment). In America, such roads would allow whites to travel without the inconvenience or danger of passing through Negro neighborhoods. To further control Negro terrorists, we might also institute a system of military checkpoints, which Negroes would have to pass through anytime they traveled anywhere. Whites, of course, would not be stopped nor have to wait at these choke-points. 5) Utility companies could give the lion's share of America's resources to whites. A report by the Israeli Human Rights Organization B' Tselem suggests the potential benefits: The discrimination between Palestinians and Israeli settlers regarding the supply of water is especially conspicuous in the many cases where settlements are located near a Palestinian town or village and are connected to the same Mekorot [Israel Water Authority] well ... 6) Using Israel as a model, we could reestablish segregation in our schools. Think of all the terrorism which might thus be prevented, not to mention all the money we could save. According to a report by Human Rights Watch: The Israeli government operates two separate school systems, one for Jewish children and one for Palestinian Arab children. Discrimination against Palestinian Arab children colors every aspect of the two systems. Education Ministry authorities have acknowledged that the ministry spends less per student in the Arab system than in the Jewish school system. 7) I am sure we would also find it profitable to deprive Negroes of other basic rights: for example, the right to assemble peacefully, the right to a free press, the right to obtain a car licence, the right to start a business, the right to buy industrial equipment, the right to export farm products, the right to run for political office, the right to a lawyer, the right to a trial, the right to travel abroad, equal access to government benefits such as welfare, health care, and veteran's loans, the right to carry a firearm, the right to go to the beach, the right to attend an Israeli university, the right to leave home without first obtaining permission, the right to walk to the corner market without being killed by American-made weapons of mass destruction, etc., etc., etc. Under America's new laws, most Negroes would have none of these rights, and the few who did, their rights would be strictly limited, being subject in all cases to the arbitrary rulings of white military authorities. These measures can hardly be considered draconian, as Israel routinely denies these same rights to its Arab non-citizen minority (Davidsson, Haas)."

Cartoon in UK paper draws Israeli protest,
Ha'aretz (Israel), January 28, 2003
"The Israeli Embassy in London has sent a strongly worded letter of protest to The Independent, following an editorial cartoon yesterday by Dave Brown, depicting Prime Minister Ariel Sharon biting the flesh of a Palestinian baby. In the cartoon, Sharon says: 'What's wrong? Have you never seen a politician kissing a baby?' The background shows Apache attack helicopters sending missiles from the cockpit with the message 'Vote Likud.' In her letter, Shuli Davidovich, the embassy's press secretary, writes: 'As Britain commemorates National Holocaust Day, I am shocked that The Independent has chosen to evoke an ancient Jewish stereotype which would not have looked out of place in `Der Sturmer', and which can unfortunately still be found in many Arabic newspapers' ... She adds: "One must be extremely careful to draw the line between legitimate criticism, and the anti-Semitism that often parades as such." A year ago, a furor broke out over a New Statesman cover picture showing a Magen David sticking into the Union Jack, portraying the effect of the Jewish lobby in Britain. At the time, the magazine apologized."

Satire or anti-Semitism? Looking at Goya 'Exactly as Goya does, Brown accuses a political leader of sacrificing his own children',
by Philip Hensher, The Independent (UK), January 31, 2003
"Amid the considerable volume of protest and complaint stirred up by Dave Brown's cartoon of Ariel Sharon, there may be discerned some genuine offence rather than lobbying, and it would be wrong to discount that. The image suggests that Sharon is murdering children as part of his election campaign, an accusation that is likely to awaken not just disagreement, but distress. Nevertheless, it may be worth trying to read the cartoon simply as an image, to see if its context and means provide any explanation of so gross an insult. The image is based on a painting by Goya, the late Saturn Devouring One of His Sons of 1819-23 ... I think we can start to see a real, substantial point to Brown's argument. The image refuses to accept, as many of the protesters assert, that the Palestinians are not Sharon's responsibility; he is Saturn, devouring his own children. It cuts across the idea of 'Sharon's people' against 'Arafat's people' and shockingly maintains that the Palestinians are not primarily Sharon's enemies, but his children. The central plank of the attack on the image is the accusation that it is actively anti-Semitic. That is a difficult question to address, because the history of the caricature of Jewish people is substantially one of anti-Semitism, but it should not, per se, be impossible to produce a caricature of any Jewish person without resorting to anti-Semitic stereotypes. The history of anti-Semitic caricature makes it improper, for instance, to exaggerate the size of a subject's nose, and yet that is one of the standard practices of caricature. What is apparent to me is that the accusation made by the cartoon, though severe, is one that ought to be within the means of graphic satire. Similar pictures were produced of Mrs Thatcher in her prime. Critics of the image should ask themselves, above all, not whether they agree with it, but how this accusation would be made, with the same legitimate force, by a cartoonist with no anti-Semitic prejudices; because, surely, everyone must concede that criticism of a specific policy of a specific Israeli government need not proceed from racial prejudice. I think the answer is that it would look very much as the cartoon actually does."

Dick Locher,
ComicsPage.com

The Simon Weisenthal Center unveils new Missile of Tolerance,
mikeszine,
"The Simon Weisenthal Center, a leading Jewish human rights organization, proudly announced their new Missile of Tolerance today. The Weisenthal 1, is an air-to-surface missile that will be used to teach Palestinian militants and any Palestinian civilians in the two hundred-yard radius a strong message of racial tolerance. The 750-pound blast fragmentation warhead is specially designed to improve tolerance in anyone killed, injured or burned beyond recognition by the powerful explosive. The missile performed well in an early morning Tolerance Education Mission on a suspected Palestinian militant, five of his neighbors and a six-year-old boy that happened to be playing in a burned out car by the compound. The attack resulted in seven more racially enlightened Palestinians who will be buried in a large funeral procession later in the week. In addition, the Weisenthal Center also released the New Lexicon of Hate. A pocket guide to help and to better equip families, clergy, law enforcement, the military, and the media to recognize today's symbols and symptoms of bigotry which have infected many Arabs and Palestinians. The lexicon documents the coded anti-Semitic hate speech that is common among Palestinians. Included in the book are coded phrases commonly used by Palestinians: “Please stop torturing me, I have no idea where he is”, “Can I have some clean water?” or “Didn’t the United Nations decide these settlements are illegal?” These are all revealed for their insidious anti-Semitic nature."

[The Jewish Lobby's censorial coordinated Complaint Bureau wins again:]
When a cartoon offends readers,
by Don Wycliff, Chicago Tribune (here at Focal Point Publications), June 1, 2003
"In my nine years as the Tribune's editorial page editor, the moments of greatest controversy and personal anguish all were the result of editorial cartoons ... On Friday, our editorial page ran a cartoon that crossed all the lines. Drawn by former Tribune cartoonist Dick Locher, the cartoon depicted President George W. Bush on one knee on a bridge over what was labeled 'Mideast Gulch.' The president is laying down a carpet of bills -- U.S. currency, presumably -- in front of a portly male figure with a large, aquiline nose and clad in a black suit marked with the Star of David. As a Yasser Arafat-like figure looks on with arms crossed, the black-suited man -- is he Ariel Sharon? a generic Israeli? a generic Jew? -- remains riveted on the money, and says, 'On second thought, the pathway to peace is looking a bit brighter.' Locher could not be reached for comment Friday evening. But editorial page editor Bruce Dold said, 'I think Dick Locher intended to comment on the influence the U.S. can exert through the foreign aid it provides to Israel. I think that's all Locher intended. But the cartoon carried several other messages that could be seen as drawing on anti-Semitic symbols and stereotypes. It also implied that the U.S. is bribing Israel to support the road map to peace, but there is simply no evidence to support that. On those levels, the cartoon failed.' Did it ever. The telephones began ringing early and continued to ring late. E-mail inboxes started to show that telltale subject line: 'cartoon.' Some callers identified themselves as Jewish; some did not. But all identified themselves as offended ... Since the Tribune does not currently have a staff editorial cartoonist, each day's cartoon is selected from a batch bought from various syndicates. Locher's cartoons come through Tribune Media Services. Dold was out of town on Thursday, so the selection of Friday's cartoon fell to his deputy, John McCormick, with help from Voice of the people editor Dodie Hofstetter. McCormick said he settled on the Locher cartoon because the policy issue it depicted -- the use of U.S. aid to influence the Israeli government -- was one that had often been discussed in editorial board debates. There is no question in my mind that McCormick and Hofstetter, two of the most honorable people I have ever worked with, did not knowingly try to smuggle an anti-Semitic cartoon into the newspaper. But that this cartoon did indeed give grievous offense to many good people is beyond question."

["Freudian Slip?" Parody online "news:"]
Dean Apologizes For Calling Lieberman “Average Jew”, Meant “Average Joe", Newshax, August 9, 2003
"At a Democratic presidential debate last week, Presidential hopeful and governor of Vermont, Howard Dean, got into another spout with one of his colleagues, Senator Joe Lieberman. The fight began when each candidate was asked, in light of the fact that it was recently revealed that Iraq did not attempt to obtain uranium from Niger, whether the war on Iraq was justified. Lieberman stated that that information provided by President Bush in his state of the union address was irrelevant to his decision, and that he would still have authorized the use of force on Iraq. Dean, on the other hand, blasted Lieberman’s views, lambasting him as a “Bush want-to-be” and “just another average Jew.” After several newspapers accused Dean of being anti-semitic, Dean issued a public apology to Lieberman, stating that he had simply mispronounced Lieberman’s first name, “Joe”, as “Jew”.

[The Jewish Thought Police strikes again:]
Cartoonist sacked after being accused of anti-Semitism,
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), August 15, 2003
"An award-winning cartoonist dumped by New Zealand's biggest newspaper because of his drawings on the Middle East conflict said he stood by his work and rejected an editor's right to direct what he could or could not draw. Malcolm Evans, twice named as the country's cartoonist of the year, says he was sacked by The New Zealand Herald after the newspaper received complaints from Jews about his cartoons on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Evans, who denied that his cartoons were anti-Semitic, said while he accepted an editor's right to reject a cartoon, he did not accept an editor's right to direct what he should draw. He said the paper's editor-in-chief, Gavin Ellis, had told him to stop submitting cartoons on Israel. However, Ellis said Evans had been sacked on legal advice, but would not comment further. Evans, who had worked for the Herald for seven years, told National Radio the argument had started when the paper received letters from readers about his cartoons critical of Israel. "I have got to acknowledge in the first instance that the paper had the balls to publish those cartoons, but once they were published and reaction came in, the paper seemed to shrink from association with them and ultimately I received this edict."

[Look at a Jew cross-eyed? Get fired. Go to Jail. Get harassed. Become persecuted. Etc., etc., etc. Jews are SACRED: DO NOT CRITICIZE THEM.]
Star makes waves in Jewish circles; Philadelphia Inquirer cartoon spurs fury,
By Faygie Levy and Alexandra Perloe, Jewish Telegraphic Agency (from Philadelphia Jewish Exponent)
"A cartoon that first appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer is having repercussions as far away as Seattle, where the cartoon also appeared. The editorial cartoon by Tony Auth, which first appeared July 31, depicts a wire fence in the shape of a Jewish star. Enclosed in each of seven sections — the six points of the star, as well as the center — stand groups of Palestinian men, women and children. According to Auth, the drawing was designed to illustrate "that the State of Israel is building a fence that separates Palestinians and is an obstacle to peace." But that´s not how many people saw it. "It was really outrageous," said Israel´s consul general in Philadelphia, Giora Becher. "It was insensitive for the cartoonist to use the Jewish symbol of a Magen David, and to use it with barbed wire and some connotation of the concentration camp." Harold Goldman, president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, said, "The Tony Auth cartoon crossed a line between what is acceptable political commentary and satire to what is clearly anti-Semitic and anti-Israel commentary." Nancy Baron-Baer of the regional Anti-Defamation League office added that the cartoon evoked memories of the Holocaust, "where the fence was used to commit atrocities, equating that to the Israelis´ building a fence to keep terrorists from committing atrocities." By using a symbol of the Jewish faith, she added, Auth "has put his criticism forth to say that it´s representative of all Jews, not just the State of Israel." Auth responded that over the years he has drawn many cartoons critical of suicide bombers. He also said that those who seek to peg him or the Inquirer as anti-Semitic are dead wrong. "It is only possible to regard me and my work as anti-Semitic by selectively looking at certain cartoons," he said. Several groups — including the federation; the ADL; the Zionist Organization of America; the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Philadelphia; the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, and others — lodged formal complaints with the paper. A letter written by the local JCRC and the Va´ad: Board of Rabbis said the groups were "appalled that Mr. Auth can take a symbol of the Jewish people, the Star of David, and so distort and pervert it — that it borders on desecration." The cartoon, said Steve Feldman, executive director of the ZOA´s Philadelphia branch, "defames the Jewish people and defames Israel."

Cartoonist fired over Israel views,
BY BUSTER SOUTHERLEY, Green Left Weekly, August 27, 2003
"The New Zealand Herald newspaper has sacked its award-winning cartoonist following a censorship row. Malcolm Evans was dismissed after drawing cartoons criticising the Israeli government's treatment of the Palestinian people, including one that depicts the word apartheid, a Star of David forming the letter A. Geoff Levy of the Auckland Jewish Council claimed that “the apartheid cartoon was offensive to Judaism and members of the Jewish community”. In June, the Herald responded to criticism of the apartheid cartoon in an editorial: “Criticism of Israel is, in the minds of some, criticism of all of Judaism. Yes, there are some for whom that may be the case; people whose views are driven by prejudice. That is not to say, however, that all criticism of the Israeli government's policy in relation to Palestinians is based on such prejudice, far from it. There are legitimate criticisms to be made of those policies, just as Palestinians can be called to account for their unacceptable retribution on innocent Israeli citizens.” Nonetheless, Evans reported that Herald management tried to stop him from drawing any more cartoons about Israel and its policies towards the Palestinians. Evans refused to be censored and was sacked. He denied the charge of anti-Semitism ... He recently won a Qantas media award as New Zealand's Cartoonist of the Year. His cartoons can be viewed at: http://www.www.evanscartoons.com

A semiology lesson in propaganda: the cartoon above by Jeff Greenberg. Greenberg succeeds in being both vehemently anti-Christian and anti-Arab at the same time, while framing the generic Jew as innocent victim of both historical nemeses. The commenting woman who doesn't understand Jewish justice in Greenberg's world is wearing a cross: she is highlighted with veritable blinking lights as a Christian. Her drowsy husband in a stupor carries a golf club. Note the "cross" of golf clubs on his hat. This exemplary Christian couple in Greenberg's world are quintessentially naive and stupid. In the left image below, there are two male Arabs who are about to be killed (note the gunsight over them). Greenberg relies on popular Judeocentric convention that Arabs with guns and dynamite are automatically "terrorists,"not freedom fighters for their homeland. Greenberg's inference is that armed Arabs deserve to die. (Israel is an oppressive military state, and equivilant stick figures with Stars of David [and verifiable tanks, jets, concentration camps, torture chambers, and nuclear weapons] on them would be more than appropriate.) The image on the bottom right depicts the categorical Jewish innocent entering a bus, three females -- one an infant. We do not see that, as normal, there are many Israeli soldiers on this bus, or that young women are obligated also to serve in the Israeli military. We have no clue in this cartoon that the entirety of Israeli life is a military force that oppresses Arabs. Nor do we see the thousands of "innocent" Palestinians murdered by Israeli troops. Essential message of this cartoon: the murder of Arabs is justifiable. Christians are too stupid to understand that.

[Jews have gotten a few cartoonists (who don't tow the Judeocentric Party line straight enough) fired this year - search our files about it. The entire genre of "Nazi," "Holocaust," etc. is apparently beholding to an enforced Jewish patent. And if Jews are "offended" by anything, the sky will cave in. God, man. "Offending" other ethnic groups and getting away with it is a uniquely Jewish expertise.]
Sask. Party still furious over 'Nazi' cartoon,
CTV (Canada), October 15, 2003
"The Saskatchewan Party says it wants more heads to roll over an NDP cartoon depicting its leader as a Nazi guard loading people onto railcars. The party wants NDP Premier Lorne Calvert to hold an independent investigation into the controversial drawing. But Calvert has refused Saskatchewan Party campaign chairman Harry Meyers says he also wants Calvert to fire his deputy chief of staff, Ed Tchorzewski. He says Tchorzewski knew about the cartoon for weeks and took no action. Calvert maintains Tchorzewski called a meeting to let staff know the cartoon was inappropriate as soon as he saw it. As far as he's concerned, the matter is closed. Late Tuesday, Calvert fired highways department employee Dave Degenstien for his involvement with the cartoon. The man who drew the cartoon, Carlo Binda, an NDP communications strategist, resigned earlier in the day. The drawing showed a man looking like Saskatchewan Party Leader Elwin Hermanson loading people onto a box car entitled "NDP Sympathizers." He's dressed in black boots and a military uniform with an "S" on the collar. The cartoon was sent to about 40 high-ranking party insiders through email. Calvert spent most of his day apologizing for the cartoon. During an appearance on a CKRM radio show Tuesday, he called the drawing "inappropriate." "I don't even want to call it a cartoon. There is nothing funny about it," Calvert said. "It's a drawing that is, in my view, totally inappropriate. The events of the Holocaust, in my view, should never be trivialized and never be used in a form of satire." Calvert apologized to Hermanson over the telephone. "It was sort of a matter-of-fact apology. It wasn't cavalier and it wasn't emotional. I just told the premier that I accept his apology and that my feeling was actions speak louder than words. He would be wise to get (the matter) cleared up,'' Hermanson said. Meyers, who is Jewish, said he was appalled by the way the cartoon appears to make light of the Holocaust. He wants Calvert to fire everyone involved. "Nobody tried to stop this," Meyers said. "Nobody said it was wrong and nobody said anything until they got caught." B'nai Brith Canada applauded Calvert for denouncing the cartoon in a news release. The Jewish advocacy group said the cartoon, "trivializes the crimes of the Holocaust and causes undeserved anguish to those who survived that evil regime." The cartoon appears to be a play on the Saskatchewan Party's so-called hit list, a database the party keeps of civil servants with NDP connections."

Issues regarding my dismissal from the New Zealand Herald,
by Macolm Evans, This interview piece published in Israel contains a number of errors that have upset some people. I wrote to the paper expressing my concerns at being misquoted and the Editor published my response in the "Letters to the Editor" sectionf, September 6th 2003 Ha'aretz newspaper Israel Friday, August 29, 2003 Elul 1, 5763 "Drawing the line" By Sara Leibovich-Dar
"New Zealand editorial cartoonist Malcolm Evans is waiting at home in Auckland for a miracle that will return him to work. Last week he was dismissed from the New Zealand Herald, the largest newspaper in the country, after drawing a series of pro-Palestinian cartoons that harshly attacked Israel's policy in the territories and compared it to Nazism. In the wake of the cartoons, many letters of protest reached the newspaper; the Jewish community in Auckland complained to the editor, Gavin Ellis. Evans was asked to moderate his cartoons or to stop drawing those relating to the Middle Eastern conflict. He refused. "An editor can decide not to publish my cartoon, but he can't tell me how to draw it," he says in a telephone interview from his home in Auckland. Evans is angry at the New Zealand Jewish community and at Jews from other countries who, he says, complained about him. "I don't want to say that the Jews control the media, it sounds racist, but I didn't believe they'd fire me. I thought we could work something out," he says. "Suddenly I'm unemployed, after working on the paper for seven years. I'm fighting for the principle of freedom of expression, but soon I'll have to put bread on the table, and I don't know what I'll do." Editor Ellis refuses to provide his reaction because of "legal circumstances." His office sent a notice to the press in which he claims that it's not true that Evans was dismissed because he refused to stop drawing critical cartoons about Israel. The Auckland Jewish community believes that firing the cartoonist was the right thing to do. Geoff Levy, head of the Auckland Jewish Council, says in a phone interview from his office that Evans caused damage to Judaism and the Jews. "One can criticize Israel," says Levy, "but one can't arouse hostility toward the Jews and that's what he did, something which is contrary to the laws of New Zealand." The Israeli ambassador to Australia and New Zealand, Gabby Levy, who met with Ellis and asked him to moderate the newspaper's pro-Palestinian policy, believes the editor did the right thing by firing Evans. "Hostile media are liable to cause harm, and we must warn about it," he says. The dismissal of Evans, who is also the president of the New Zealand Cartoonists Association, is causing a storm both within and outside of his country. Evan says he has been receiving about 80 e-mails a day from all over the world since he was fired, most of them supportive, "but there are also those who attack me." Robert Russell, director of the Cartoonists Rights Network, which comprises about 2,000 cartoonists from all over the world, sent a letter to the editor of the New Zealand Herald and demanded that he demonstrate courage and stand by Evans. "It's rare for such a thing to happen in a developed country. On the one hand, the paper has a right to fire anyone who doesn't do good work for it," says Russell in a phone interview from his home in Virginia. "But we mustn't forget that a cartoonist is hired because of his personal opinions."

[This is quaint. The Jewish Lobby is stealing George Orwell, who has been accused by some as himself being "anti-Semitic." We have below the charge of a "Right wing-Left wing-Every kind of wing" CONSPIRACY that depicts world Jewry as, in turn, a CONSPIRACY.]
Palestinian daily: Israel strangling the world Official PA publication depicts Jews as threat to entire planet,
World Net Daily, November 11, 2003
"Amid what some analysts are calling a new wave of anti-Semitism, the official Palestinian daily newspaper published a cartoon depicting the oft-repeated charge Jews are a danger to the world. The cartoon in Al Hayat Al Jadida plays off a recent European poll showing nearly 60 percent of those surveyed believe Israel is the greatest threat to peace in the world today. "The doctrine that Jews endanger the entire world has been a common theme of anti-Semites throughout history," commented Itamar Marcus of Israel-based Palestinian Media Watch. "Often they create a specified threat, as in the 'poison wells' lie in the Middle Ages," Marcus said. "Other times Jews are depicted as a general universal threat, as a larger-than-life evil threatening humanity." Marcus notes Malaysia's recently retired Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's comment on the European poll. Mohamad asserted: "The reaction of the world shows that [Jews] do control the world." "There are not many Jews in the world," he said. "But they are so arrogant that they defy the whole world." The poll was conducted in 15 European countries. In the survey, 500 people from each of the 15 EU countries were asked which state they regard as most dangerous to world peace. According to the results, 59 percent believe Israel tops the list, and 52 percent positioned the U.S. in second place ... The information age, particularly with the advent of the Web, said Weitzman, has helped spread the hate material. In her new book, "The New Anti-Semitism: The Current Crisis and What We Must Do About It," Phyllis Chesler argues a dangerous, worldwide coalition of forces have joined together to blame the Jews and the Jewish state for the current state of turmoil around the world. This Orwellian force, Chesler says, comprises Islamic terrorists, well-intentioned but misinformed students, right-wing fascists, left-wing ideologues, pious academics, feminists, opportunistic European politicians and sensation-seeking international media."

[The Jewish Lobby has been chasing cartoonists for a while now. Malcolm Evans even got fired from the New Zealand Herald after Jews starting complaining about how they and their racist nation (Israel) were beyond normal criticism.]
Daryle Cagle's Cartoon Web Blog,
November 23, 2003
"Here's an interesting tidbit that I missed last week. The Australian Press Council upheld a complaint by a reader of the Sydney Morning Herald who felt that a cartoon by Alan Moir was racist and should not have been published. (Although Alan is a regular on our site, we didn't receive a copy of the offending cartoon.) The Herald acknowledged a "lapse in judgement" in printing the August 12th cartoon which juxtaposed images of the Warsaw Ghetto and the security wall being built on Israel's West Bank. The cartoon showed two images of roads blocked by walls, with a wall labeled "Warsaw 1943" and a wall labeled "West Bank 2003." The Herald printed many angry responses from readers in addition to an unusual apology by the Herald's editor."

AUTH CARTOON BEGETS CHARGES OF ANTI-SEMITISM, FAIRLY OR NOT,
by Ahmed Bouzid, American Reporter, December 17, 2003
"On July 31, 2003, nationally syndicated cartoonist Tony Auth, who is based at the Philadelphia Inquirer, published a cartoon critical of the 'Separation Wall' that showed the star of David made out of barbed wire enclosing Palestinian populations. The cartoon immediately created an uproar within the Jewish community in Philadelphia and nationwide and raised the usual hackles of anti-Semitism against the cartoonist. Representatives from various Jewish groups in Philadelphia at once asked for a meeting with the Inquirer and two weeks later, on August 18, 2003, met with newly installed Editor in Chief, Amanda Bennett, to complain about the cartoon and the cartoonist. Two weeks later, on August 31, 2003, the Inquirer devoted a whole page of op-ed space for these groups to air their grievances. On Sept. 1st, representatives of Arab and Muslim groups in Philadelphia who had been seeking a meeting with Ms. Bennett since she became editor in June, and who had been told by Ms. Bennett that she was not meeting with anyone "just yet," contacted Ms. Bennett upon learning of her meeting with the Jewish groups and requested a meeting to discuss what they felt to be a disturbing and well-established pattern in Mr. Auth's cartoons of using and abusing deragotary stereotypes about Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims. Five weeks later, On Oct. 8, representatives from Palestine Media Watch (I was one) and the Philadelphia chapter of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) met with Ms. Bennett for more than one hour to discuss Mr. Auth's cartoons. We presented Ms. Bennett with seven copies of two neatly bound reports focusing on all cartoons published by Mr. Auth regarding the Palestine-Israel conflict (45 cartoons) and Arabs and Muslims in general (41 cartoons, excluding Iraq) between September 2000 and August 2003 ... Our request to Ms. Bennett at the end of the meeting was for the Inquirer to provide a Sunday op-ed page for Arab and Muslim Americans in the Philadelphia area to write on how they have been portrayed by the US media and how they have fared in general since 9/11, given their precarious civil rights situation. Ms. Bennett said that she would take the matter into consideration and that she would get back to us with an answer soon. Since the meeting, we sent Ms. Bennett three follow-up emails in a span of more than two months asking for her to update us on her decision. For more than 10 weeks, neither Ms. Bennett nor Mr. Auth, nor indeed anyone else in the Inquirer, even bothered to respond to our queries. Direct queries to Mr. Auth were also ignored ... Obviously, the difference between our groups and the Israel-first groups is that we came to Ms. Bennett respectfully, quietly, without first mobilizing a letter-writing campaign, with two reports spanning three years of evidence, and we presented our case without impugning the cartoonist's or the paper's intentions or integrity, and without shrill accusations of bigotry and racism. By contrast, Israel-first groups immediately mobilized their members to flood the Inquirer with letters and phone calls, with of course the usual accusations of anti-Semitism. So, what lessons should one draw from this tale of two pressure groups? The first immediate lesson is that the "anti-Semitism" card, especially when backed with hysterical and shrill outcries, will every time trump reasoned and empirically-informed argument. About a year ago, a similar tug-of-war between Israel-first groups and our groups took place, with basically the same results: on the one hand, a hundred or so Israel-first demonstrators shouted outside of the offices of the Inquirer slogans to the effect that - what else - the Inquirer was 'anti-Semitic', that it was the legacy of Nazi-sympathizers, that it supported terrorism, and called for a boycott of the paper ... A second, and related, lesson is that newspapers will react not to reasoned argument but to raw pressure. The pressure group that mobilizes the more people to make phone calls, send faxes, or send emails, is the pressure group that gets the attention. Pretty straightforward physics, but important to note and highlight, since I have yet to meet a single editor or reporter who was honest enough to acknowledge this depressing fact of life in American journalism. Instead, every single time the issue comes up, I am given the high-minded bromide that journalists resent organized mobilizations and that such mobilizations are more often counter-productive than they are effective. But reality spells a different story: the loud and hard right, for instance, has successfully intimidated weak-kneed newspapers into giving them far more space than they deserve, given how marginal their opinions are relative to mainstream public opinion ... The bottom line: mobilize and mobilize, and make noise. Not that we should stoop to tarring-and-feathering, to lying and lynching; not that we should emulate every aspect of the Israel-first and the hard right camps. That is not the style of principled causes. But we do have clear and present enemies who are so consumed by self-righteousness that any destruction they wreck with their intolerance to dissenting opinion is in their mind fully justified by the end they seek. Well, for those who feel that the progressive cause is inherently and by definition too diverse and too democratic to train its sights on any one target with common, concentrated energy, we do have one: a bitter fight against those who feel that our destruction is an important stepping-stone towards their false Utopia."

[Meanwhile, the Jewish Lobby succeeds in banning cartoons about Israel all the time.]
[Racist Jewish cartoons]], [for "Women in Green"]
Arabs against Discrimination

[In the Jewish Lobby's eyes, telling the truth is a Thought Crime. Here's the Englehart (Hartford Courant) cartoon they seek to censor. Folks, in Jewish eyes this is a manfestation of "anti-Semitism." Think about it. This little cartoon that dares to infer in the slightest that it's possible ANYTHING Jews do could instigate anti-Jewish hostility affords the Jewish Censorial Nuthouse to expound their usual inane "tolerance" lecture and look for Englehart's head on a pole.]

[More censorship from the Anti-Defamation League (which recently had to pay out $10 million to the Quigley family for calling them "anti-Semites"). The Jewish Lobby seems to have a special delight in censorsing cartoons. Mel Gibson got away, so they aim for smaller fry. The ADL doesn't even provide a link for you to see the object of their smear. Jews create "anti-Semitism" by their beliefs and actions -- always. Even by this stupid demand upon the Hartford Courant. Are Jews losing touch with reality? ]
Letters to the Editor. The Hartford Courant. March 3, 2004, [The ADL headline says: Hartford Courant Cartoon: a License to Bigotry]
Anti-Defamation League
"To the Editor: For more than 2,000 years, haters of Jews have never struggled to find a rationale for blaming their victims: the Jews are too rich, too poor, they are communists, they are capitalists, they are rootless, parasitic foreigners without their own land, they are nationalists (Zionists) with a country of their own. For anti-Semites and their apologists, the trouble with Jews is simply that they are. Englehart joins these misguided apologists with a cartoon that blames Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for contemporary anti-Semitism, while at the same time trivializing the concerns of Christians and Jews that the a-historic and stereotypical portrayal of Jews in Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" could fuel anti-Jewish prejudice and reinforce anti-Jewish stereotypes. This linkage provides insight into Englehart's irrational thinking. The cartoon is not mere criticism of Israeli policy. Ariel Sharon has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that for centuries (during which the State of Israel did not exist) the charge that "the Jews" killed Jesus, most vividly expressed in Passion plays, was used by some to foment violence against Jewish communities. Anti-Semitism, the hatred of the Jews, has never been and still is not a result of the actions or inactions of the Jewish people. Rather, it is a cancer that attacks periodically and without reason. Providing justification for it is merely an attempt to rationalize the irrational. Anti-Semitism today is no more the result of Ariel Sharon's policies than the Nazi genocide of the Jewish people was the result of Hitler's dislike of Albert Einstein's scientific theories."

Anti-Semitic Caricatures in Greece Following Yassin Operation,
Anti-Defamation League, Posted: March 30, 2004
"Following the Israeli operation against Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, leader of the terrorist group Hamas, newspapers around the world featured caricatures that were harshly critical of Israel and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. In Greece, a number of caricatures crossed the line from criticism of Israel and Prime Minister Sharon to anti-Semitism."

Here are some of the Greek cartoons that one of the American political arms of racist Israel, the Anti-Defamation League, seeks to censor as anti-Jewish bigotry:

Caption for above: Dressed as Nazis, President Bush tells Prime Minister Sharon: "Assassinations brought us nowhere Ariel, but the assassination of politics may lead somewhere."

Caption for the above: The woman asks the man, "Why did the Jewish government kill a religious leader?" The man answers: "They are practicing for Easter."

Caption for the above: The woman says: "Sharon killed a crippled leader." The man responds: "That's nothing. He also asked to assume the responsibility for the security of the Special Olympics."

Above: Ariel Sharon dressed as a Nazi. Text: "Fascism is not only the logic of killing, but primarily killing logic."

A cartoonist and a spy,
by JOHN CHERIAN, Frontline (India's National Magazine from the publishers of THE HINDU), Volume 21 - Issue 08, April 10 - 23, 2004
"RANAN LURIE'S cartoons have graced the columns of leading newspapers and magazines of the world. They have been hard-hitting, though his right-wing political bias comes through frequently. During his heyday in international journalism, Lurie could pick up the telephone and speak to many leading Western statesmen and international personalities. Few of them knew that Lurie was a "double agent", working for the Israeli secret agency Mossad and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States. The Guinness Book of Records has described Lurie as the world's most popular caricaturist whose works have appeared continuously for 20 straight years on a regular basis in more than a thousand papers in 103 countries. His political cartoons have appeared in publications like Time, Newsweek, Foreign Affairs, Asahi Shimbun and Die Welt. According to articles that have appeared in the Israeli media, Lurie has admitted that he was recruited at an early age by the Israeli security agencies. Mossad realised that the talented young cartoonist could be launched into the international media scene, where he could turn out to be a useful asset. Mossad provided the springboard into international journalism for the young Lurie by purchasing a weekly magazine in Israel. Lurie was given a prominent profile in the magazine. Its circulation was artificially boosted by Mossad, which purchased its copies in bulk. The Israeli authorities saw to it that the soaring circulation of the magazine was attributed mainly to the journalistic skills of Lurie. If reports appearing in the Israeli media are to be believed, Lurie's earlier exploits for the Israeli security services before he became a media star had made him a prized asset. Lurie, posing as an Australian journalist, had gained access to the Egyptian Navy's flagship "Domiat". His assignment was to find out whether the Egyptians had begun to use the naval radar supplied by the Soviet Union. Lurie successfully accomplished the mission ... The CIA soon found out about Lurie's secret life as an Israeli agent embedded in the upper crust of American society. Mossad was left with no choice but to share its prized asset with the CIA. Lurie continued in international journalism, happily supplying information to two masters at the same time. Lurie is now busy writing a book about his duplicitous career. In interviews to the Israeli media, he has expressed no regrets. His story will add credibility to the widespread belief that Western and Israeli security services have infiltrated key sectors of the media in many countries, including developing ones."

[Egyptian cartoons condemned by the Anti-Defamation League as "anti-Semitic."]

(Above) The "Israeli negotiator" on the right is saying: "Sit and let's negotiate. Why do you stand?"

[JTR Contributor's Note: "All of these cartoons came from something called "The Middle East Media Research Institute" which appears to be an American-operated neocon front group. They translate selected articles (often with omissions) and also reproduce English-language articles that appear in the Middle East media. But, they translate/reproduce VERY SELECTIVELY, highlighting all the worst, with emphasis on "anti-semitism" and "jihad" stories. Interestingly, the VERY WORST CARTOONS they could find are mostly rather tame. To visitors of JTR, these cartoons tell truths that you will not find ANYWHERE in the Western media (including Europe, Australia, and the UK) except on VERY RARE occasions, when a cartoonist sometimes breaks ranks (like Sharon eating the Palestinian baby cartoon in Britain) and jeopardizes his/her career in doing so. Here are some of the cartoons that seemed appropriate in light of Sharon's recent puppeteering of Bush." Our comment: This is an excellent resource. There are hundreds of cartoons taken out of their original context and put into MEMRI's. MEMRI is a Judeocentric pro-Israel propaganda site. Recontextualized off MEMRI, a lot of these cartoons SING. You don't get to see such cartoons in the "free speech" West. We'll post some regularly. Example, #1, below:]