{"id":326,"date":"2003-08-11T08:13:14","date_gmt":"2003-08-11T16:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/08\/11\/the-same-image-in-different-times\/"},"modified":"2003-08-11T08:13:14","modified_gmt":"2003-08-11T16:13:14","slug":"the-same-image-in-different-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"The same image in different times"},"content":{"rendered":"

The folks at Little Green Footballs<\/a> are in an uproar over a cartoon again. This recent cartoon, by American cartoonist Tony Auth…<\/p>\n

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Bears a disturbing resemblance to this one, a Nazi propoganda cartoon from the mid-1930s.<\/p>\n

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Some folks regard this as proof that the Tony Auth cartoon is “obvious, gut-churning antisemitism.” But I’m not convinced. The Nazi cartoon is unquestionably antisemitic, because it came out in a time when the star of David refered to Jews and to nothing else.<\/p>\n

Since then, however, the State of Israel was born, and chose to put the star of David on its flag<\/a>, as Israel’s official symbol. It is the Israelis – not antisemites – who in this case chose to transform the six-pointed star from a symbol representing Jews to a symbol representing a state and its policies. Once Israel had made that choice, the star of David became fair game for political cartoonists criticizing Israel.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, it’s clear that Auth’s cartoon isn’t referring to Jews in general – it’s referring to the Security Fence, a particular policy of the Israeli goverment.<\/p>\n

If Israel’s supporters find the politicization of the star of David antisemetic, then they should complain to Israel – not to Tony Auth.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Just ran across this post at Hatcher’s Hack<\/a>, saying pretty much the same thing I said (but he posted it first). He concludes:<\/p>\n

To force an anti-Semitic reading of Auth’s cartoon is to stretch the meaning of “anti-Semitism” to a nonsensical length. It diminishes complaints of real<\/em> anti-Semitism.<\/div>\n

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