Holocaust Analogies and Anti-Semitism

Blogmaster's remarks: If someone were to publish cartoons in Israel about Arabs as degrading and inflammatory as those published about Jews by newspapers across the Arab world, the publisher in Israel would be jailed for incitement. This is yet another graphic example of the fundamental differences between the psyche of Jews vs. our Arab neighbors. They preach "hate", we preach "peace"; they revere "death" while we love "life". We give them electricity while they fire rockets at the power plant. What is there not to be understood by the rest of the world about the right and wrong of the conflict between Israel and our neighbors? Our desire for a peaceful solution to this conflict cannot be doubted... we have agreed to give away sizable portions of our land to appease this band of hooligans who only demand more. Now I suggest that it is time that the pendulum swings the other way for a change. We are tired of concessions, we are tired of bombings, and rocket attacks; we are fed up with our citizens being murdered and maimed and quite simply, we are sick and tired of our soldiers dying to keep out terrorists and we are fed up with the terrorists amongst us! It is time we screamed to the tops of our lungs ENOUGH! It is time that we stopped bowing to CondiSleeza Rice, and kissing the collective toucheses of the EU and the UN. It is long overdue that we begin to respond to terrorism and aggression the way any other free and democratic nation would respond. And how is that you ask? I can answer you this way... how do you think any other country would respond if her neighboring country were rocketing their citizens daily? Pretty simple, isn't it?

Holocaust Analogies and Anti-Semitism

The barrage of rocket fire from Gaza and Israel’s military action to stem the attacks on its cities have prompted an outpouring of offensive and bigoted commentary in the Arab press, whose response came in the form of a series of rapid-fire editorial cartoons using swastikas, classical anti-Semitic images and other hateful references to the Holocaust to vilify Israel and portray the Jewish state as an aggressor with genocidal ambitions.

Many of the cartoons are rife with Holocaust imagery and blatant analogies between Israel’s defensive military action and the killing of European Jews during the Holocaust in World War II.

The cartoons feature swastikas and describe the defensive measures Israel has taken as a “Holocaust” in Gaza. Holocaust imagery and direct comparisons to the Holocaust are a common feature of the anti-Semitic cartoons that regularly appear in Arab newspapers across the Middle East and throughout the Muslim world.

The following are selected examples from Arab newspapers:

Al-Ahram weekly, March 6-12, 2008 (Egypt)










Al-Ahram weekly, March 6-12, 2008 (Egypt)












Ash-Shabib, March 5, 2008 (Oman)On the sign:
“Gaza”. the rocket is representing “the resistance.”











Akhbar al-Khalij, March 5, 2008 (Bahrain)
The Israeli soldier is saying to Gaza
(which is biting him): “Oh, my finger.”













arabcartoon.net – Isam Ahmad (PA)












Ad-Dustur, March 5, 2008 (Jordan) In Arabic:
“the only democracy in the Middle East.”













Al-Jazira, March 5, 2008 In Arabic: “Olmert.”

arabcartoon.net – Syria

Al-Watan, March 4, 2008 (Qatar)

Ad-Dustur, March 4, 2008 (Jordan)Israeli soldiers raise the Nazi flag

over the dead bodies of the Palestinians in “Gaza;” the cartoon

mimics the famous photo of U.S. Marines raising the flag at the

battle of Iwo Jima.

Al-Ayyam, March 4, 2008 (Bahraran)

Al-Eqtisadieh, March 4, 2008 (Saudi Arabia)

Al-Khabar, March 4, 2008 (Algeria)The cartoon's headline reads:

"The New Nazism”. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert

is depicted as Adolf Hitler

Al-Ghad, March 3, 2008 (Jordan)

the cartoon’s headline: “Gaza’s Holocaust.”

Al-Khalij, March 2, 2008 (UAE)The cartoon’s headline:

The Zionist Holocaust in Gaza.”

Al-Ghad, March 3, 2008 (Jordan)

the cartoon’s headline: “Gaza’s Holocaust.”

Al-Watan, March 1, 2008 (Oman)

In Arabic: “An Arab Summit.”

Filastin, March 3, 2008 (PA)The cartoon’s headline:

“Israeli Holocaust in Gaza.”

Al-Gumhuriyya, March 3, 2008 (Egypt)

The caption above reads: “The International Legitimacy.”

On the paper, in Arabic: “Gaza’s Holocaust.”

Al-Bayan, March 1, 2008 (U.A.E)