The swine flu epidemic has provided new fodder for newspapers in the Muslim and Arab world to continue their broadsides against Israel, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which monitors anti-Semitism in the Arab media.
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Large-circulation daily newspapers are exploiting the swine flu epidemic with editorial cartoons that demonize the Jewish state and its leaders. One theme of the anti-Israel cartoons related to the swine flu is ironically picturing Israeli leaders with faces of pigs, reflecting the disdain for the pig in Islamic culture.
“Once again, the Arab press is not just content with reporting the news of a serious and potentially deadly global epidemic,” said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. “They are exploiting the swine flu epidemic in an effort to rile up anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiment in the Arab street. And they are using the most powerful tool in their arsenal – the visual, the cartoon – to incite hatred for the Jewish state and its people.”
Anti-Israel swine flu cartoons have appeared in large-circulation mainstream Arab and Muslim newspapers in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and elsewhere. The League has posted a sampling of the images on its Web site.
what makes them foolish is that they dont know that pig ossur by us, Ha Ha
but when you make a cartoon of allah.or what ever they call it they start beheading people.
What else would you expect from morons??
What a bunch of low lifes. Remember how they rioted and killed people after the Danish newspaper published a cartoon of Mohammed yemach shmo.?
hahahahaha creative! we should laugh more at these types of things… not worry!
If this kind of thing is acceptable in their culture, we should do the same to their leaders. Our papers should start publishing pictures of Hamas and Syrian leaders like this. Lets see how funny they think it is then. Lets show the world, once again, how pathetic these hate groups are!
The joke is that The ADL monitors anti-semitism in the arab media!! You mean, sometimes there ISN’T anti-semitism in Arab media ?! When is that? After they pulled out of Gaza ?! Note to ADL the arabs don’t like us.
It’s amazing that you pointed this out. My blog today is entitled, “What’s in a name? Swine!” Here’s the entire entry:
We are all concerned about the spread of swine flu in the United States and abroad. A comment in Israel on what to call this outbreak of influenza may seem laughable to many people.
You see, Jews don’t eat pork and don’t keep pigs as pets. Hence “swine” might be offensive, according to one Israeli official (who shall remain nameless in consideration of his already tarred public image), to those who do not keep pigs in their homes.
This official suggested an alternative name: Mexican flu. As a government official one would think he’d know better. Would he want someone to call a virus that originated in Israel the “Israeli flu?”
On the other hand, this discussion shows the power of language and labels, in particular.
Thus it’s interesting that no one talks about the alternative definition of swine, namely, “a contemptible person.” This association came to me because, as a child of a holocaust survivor, I recall that Jews were often called SWINE! by their Nazi persecutors.
Hugo Chavez understands this power in his use of Anti-Semitic language against Jews in Venezuela. His centuries-old strategy is to label the Jewish citizens as the source of all the world’s problems. Similarly, the head of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, calls Israel “a cruel and repressive racist regime” and blames it for the hatred of its enemies.
These leaders are using oft-repeated canards against Jews – euphemistically labeling them as Zionists or Israeli fascists – to deflect pressure from their citizens to deal with the economic, social and political problems of their respective countries.
So too, within the family, when one labels a child as the problem, the parents can focus on the child rather than on themselves. All of his actions are seen as evidence of that problem, whether they are or not. Eventually the child internalizes the label. It will be part of his self-image, one that he may spend the rest of his life trying to change.
Let us hope that with alert people all over the world monitoring the spread of disease, we will succeed in educating people of the dangers of “swine” – both physical and mental – and prevent its lethal consequences.
Why is this news? this is par for the course for the “religion of peace!