Berlin – Germany’s new anti-Semitism commissioner says a leading newspaper crossed a “red line” with a caricature of Benjamin Netanyahu portraying the Israeli Prime Minister with oversized lips, ears and nose.
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Felix Klein, who was appointed this year amid concerns over rising anti-Semitism, told the Bild newspaper on Thursday that Tuesday’s cartoon in Munich’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung in the aftermath of the U.S. decision to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem recalled “the intolerable depictions of Nazi propaganda.”
The drawing depicts Netanyahu dressed as Israeli singer Netta Barzilai, who won this year’s Eurovision song contest. The heart that forms the “v” in Eurovision is replaced with a Star of David and Netanyahu is hoisting a missile in his hand, saying “next year in Jerusalem.”
Sueddeutsche Zeitung has apologized for the caricature.
Wow – the world is looking more and more like the 1930’s every day.
german jew hatred who would of thunk
Felix Klein’s admonishment seems a little over the edge, (over-zealous).
After all, virtually all caricature cartoons employ this methodology of distorting and exaggerating a subject’s features, irrespective of the subject’s religion or creed.
He shouldn’t be crying wolf so that when the real thing comes along his admonishments then might very well fall on deaf ears, (The nose isn’t shown hooked!)