Tom Gross wrote the following, in a recent post, about the non-existent “Israeli Jew” backed by non-existent “rich Jewish financiers” responsible for the YouTube video clip called the “Innocence of Muslims.”
Even after most Western news outlets corrected themselves last Thursday, a small minority of Western news columnists with a track record of attacking Israel continued to state that an Israeli Jew was behind the film.
Unsurprisingly, the media in the Arab world and Iran have continued this theme…blaming Jews for the anti-Islam film “Innocence of Muslims.”
Here are a handful of the hateful cartoons in the Arab media, echoing these false accusations about the film, which didn’t inspire Jews to riot, engage in violence, nor the storm embassies of countries where such antisemitic depictions were sanctioned.
Aftermath: No riots, no injuries, no deaths.
Aftermath: No riots, no injuries, no deaths.
Aftermath: No riots, no injuries, no deaths.
Obama to Jew holding a knife dripping with blood:
“Don’t be afraid. There are no pictures or articles about you.”.
Aftermath: No riots, no injuries, no deaths.
Aftermath: No riots, no injuries, no deaths.
Aftermath: No riots, no injuries, no deaths.
Finally, going beyond the current controversy over ‘The innocence of Muslims”, here are a couple of Arab “classics”.
Aftermath: No riots, no injuries, no deaths.
Aftermath: No riots, no injuries, no deaths.
Aftermath: No riots, no injuries, no deaths.
As Joel Kotek wrote in an essay published at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs:
The main recurrent motif in Arab cartoons concerning Israel is “the devilish Jew.” This image conveys the idea that Jews behave like Nazis, kill children and love blood.
Palestinian cartoonists often place emphasis on the anti-Semitic accusation of “ritual murder” of children. This is underscored by their claim that Israelis target Palestinian children. To dehumanize Jews, Arab cartoonists often depict them as malevolent creatures: spiders, vampires or octopuses.
Here’s one last cartoon, which is cruel beyond words.
Aftermath: No riots, no injuries, no deaths.
Finally, these cartoons are anything but anomalies.
There are thousands upon thousands of such hideously antisemitic depictions of Jews in the Arab media (in newspapers, magazines, and books), many of which can be found at the sites of Palestinian Media Watch, MEMRI and ADL.
The Guardian, as with most of the “mainstream” media, all but ignores such expressions of extreme hatred towards Jews in the Arab world.
