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Which One of These Anti-Semitic Cartoons Is Not Like the Others

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)1/29/2013 8:27:51 am PST

re: #122 Buck

And, in your opinion is that is the only way to apply the term. Strictly Jews using the blood of Christians in secret religious ceremonies. That is it?

No, but the farther you get from that, the less likely it is to be an example of bood libel. Since this cartoonist often portrays political leaders as bloody, it’s a huge leap to assume he’s referencing the blood libel rather than doing his usual thing— just as it’s a huge leap to think that portraying Bibi the same way he did Margaret Thatcher and Sarkozy is antisemetic.

Show Bush as a chimp, not racist. Show Obama as a chimp, racist. Get it now?

But we’re not talking about that. The features on Bibi are not massively exaggerated, they’re just like on his other pictures. If there was some dude who portrayed all world leaders as chimps and did one of Obama too, it’d be, like this, unfortunate because a lot of people seeing it out of context would jump to the wrong conclusion, but obviously it wouldn’t really be racist.