Yad Vashem protests Austrian newspaper caricature. (Hat tip: zulubaby.)

In the caricature titled “Then and Now,” which appeared Wednesday in the Austrian newspaper Kleine Zeitung, a frightened Jew appears on one side of the cartoon, labeled past, as a Nazi soldier, with a swastika on his arm, bears down on him.

On the other half of the caricature, marked present, a small, frightened Palestinian child appears, with an Israeli soldier with a Star of David on his arm bearing down on him.

“The caricature is a classic expression of the new antisemitism… which diminishes the Holocaust and distorts both today’s reality as well as that of the Holocaust,” a press release issued Thursday by Yad Vashem read.