Benjamin Kerstein, The New Ledger:
It must be said […] that Oliphant’s cartoon is somewhat unique in adopting […] these themes into a single image, reflecting the cumulative influence of antisemitisms both past and present. Combined with its publication in a prestigious American newspaper, it indicates that a convergence of sorts is occurring. It seems that a process which has been underway since the second intifada began has now reached a new peak (or nadir). The phenomenon in question is simply this: As a result of the hatred of Israel prevalent in many circles in the West, classic antisemitic mythology and imagery, especially those employed by Nazism, have been relegitimized, mainly as a result of their widespread use in the Arab and Muslim media, where the taboo against overt antisemitism does not exist.
This is all, in a certain sense, ironic, because the use of these images is justified—implicitly or explicitly—by their creators through equating the Jews to the Nazis. In doing precisely this, however, the artists are employing Nazi imagery of the most obvious kind. In effect, they are accusing the Jews of being Nazis by, in a sense, becoming Nazis themselves. Irony, however, is not particularly comforting, and it is no solution to the very old problem of people who cannot relate to the Jews—and, by extension, Israel—without collapsing into the sleep of reason which, as Goya himself said, brings forth monsters.
Well, I’ll give Oliphant credit for one thing: he was smart enough not to bring monkeys or The Prophet into any of this.
Ironically, for all their secret world power, the Jews seem best at making themselves easy targets and scapegoats.
Maybe they should take that up at the next meeting of ZOG.
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related (h/t Geezer)
It’s not that we hate the Jews. I promise, when they’re all gone we’ll remember them almost fondly.
New York Money Men … ASSEMBLE! I guess with the old Soviet ear campaign posters back in vogue, it was inevitable that the Nazi 1930s agit-prop would slime its way back forth too.
Everything old (and bad) is new (and hip) again!
um, Soviet era, that is… I do wonder what a Soviet ear poster would look like, tho’.
almost.
Let’s just say if we were playing kickball, we’d pick Oliphant before Peretz.
So would we.
When comes the day that fuckers like Oliphant suffer actual (and well deserved) beatdowns on the street? Can’t be too far off, I’m thinking.
I think the Left’s tentative former embrace of the Jews was really nothing more than an embrace of a reliable Leftist-activism substituted for religion on the part of too many Jews. Thus, the antisemitism is allowable because it is coming from the Jews’ left flank – in large part a punishment for not being Jewish qua Leftist enough.
Plus, the Palestinians are more brown than your average Jew, so they’re obviously right about everything.
In the midst of all the high minded explainations of the iconographic meanings, one does wonder why the left loses thier ability to just yell “RACIST!!!!”
Personally, I blame Sandy Kofax, Mel Brooks and Lenny Kravitz. Mostly, Kravitz because he scored Lisa Bonet. He’s also my damn hero.
I am waiting for Rush round 2. “If Obama fails America is saved.” Will that be any better for the “moderates?”
So we won’t be hearing anything about nappy-headed ho’s out of Oliphant anytime soon I take it, Alec?
Broker1,
Not if the MSM tells us it isn’t.
The problem is that the Jews always used to put their less talented people in the department that controls the media.
What’s happening now is that they saw the problem and tried to fix it so they’ve moved some incompetents out of Running the Media and moved them over to the department in charge of the world’s economy.
Eh, at least they didn’t put them in charge of American Elections.
Wait…..
All I know is Jews can work magic with a few eggs, chicken stock, and some matzoh meal.
It seems like everyone is focusing on Oliphant’s intent. Isn’t that just wrong? Have we learned NOTHING?
OCBill,
We haven’t and never will…
The day when they supervise the delivery of street beatdowns has to come first. And the day when they watch over unsupervised (by them) street beatdowns with a smile — then rhapsodize them in the press — has to come before that. They’re only ready for that day, so it’ll be a few years before their beatdown comes.
But!
You guys could bring it by, say, nominating Cantor in 2012. Having Palin around would help, too. Unfocused hate finds a focus. Especially if he’s right there, bein’ all Jewy. Then it unfocuses, differently. And it’s street beatdown time.
I say do it. Waiting isn’t preparing.
I wonder how many cubicles at the UN have that cartoon tacked up in them?
I guess to be fair, they never really understood Dilbert.
how many capitalist whore dogs
can u fit in a volkswagen?
Ah fuck, nothing like organization for getting organized, not organizized.
“The day when they supervise the delivery of street beatdowns has to come first. And the day when they watch over unsupervised (by them) street beatdowns with a smile — then rhapsodize them in the press — has to come before that. They’re only ready for that day, so it’ll be a few years before their beatdown comes.”
I caught “Green Street Hooligans” on cable the other night. What we need are some proper conservative “firms.” Bypass all that “supervised/ press rhapsody” shit and just fuck some Oliphants up. Plus, those guys HATED “journos.”
Did I mention it was a good movie?
And this today online. Our culture is derailing. It’s getting scary.
WTF is wrong with our intelligentsia?
Not enough beatdowns Geezer, that simple.
Sweet fancy Moses. That play Geezer linked to was written by a guy named CHURCHILL!
The British ought to have a fucking law.
First Obama returns Churchill’s bust (presumably because it clashed with the Che poster Michelle put up behind it), and now this.
Goddamnit.
Sometimes you don’t even need a beatdown, Sdferr.
I once accidentally bumped into a guy who was recklessly tailgating me not two minutes before.
He apologized twice and ran off before I realized he was the tailgater and he thought I had followed him to the grocery store. It was a funny moment. I honestly couldn’t figure out why someone would apologize to me for being in produce section.
Mostly, I think of somebody’s fist upside Oliphant’s head as I do Dr. Johnson’s foot to the stone.
But yeah, I take your point, it’s still a meetup with the real world.
Well, I guess the lid’s off for a cartoon of Obama doing smack.
Somewhat related, from Max Boot.
Sdferr, hilarious book, I’m still going through my first reading.
My favorite part so far? The anecdote about Johnson’s young schoolmates carrying him on their shoulders because of his obvious genius. I can’t quite make out if that is a joke and if so, who’s joke? Boswell’s, to relate it as he does, tongue firmly in cheek? Johnson’s, to tell it to Boswell, tongue firmly in cheek?
who’s=whose, obviously
Here it is:
You don’t reckon that Mr Hector could be an invention to take us to Mr Achilles, do you? :-)
Funny, yeah, the thought had crossed my mind.
Man, those darn Jews are more unstoppable than the Sccoby gang.
“Sccoby”
You know what I meant. That was my intent.
scooby on the roof
w/ more zero mostel
and cartoon pranks…
like-diving off the twin towers
cartoon like
no harm no fowl
we all land in a crescent
hold hands aka grinch and sing
if i was a rich man-da da dada dada dum
“Man, those darn Jews are more unstoppable than the Scooby gang.”
Iran: “We’d have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for those meddling Jews!”
Scooby: “Jew-be-doo-be-doo!”
Weird, how some people are sensitive to some names thrown at them (for instance the approbation that arose from this), but those same people don’t mind tossing epithets at others…I’m guessing Mr. Oliphant’s heart is as curdled as the commenters think, since they have carefully divined his intention to criticize not a state, but an entire race. Weird how some can do that.
Could you guys pass a list of the sorts of people who can criticize Israeli policies to the Post. I’m sure they wouldn’t want to offend you careful diviners of truth and offense.
A list?
Let’s get started, ummm, okay, I just thought of one.
1. People who intentionally portray Israel as a Nazi state.
2. I don’t know, do you need more or does this cover it for you?
Actually, Kirk, let’s reverse this.
What do you think of the cartoon? Tell us what you can divine of Oliphant’s intent. I have a feeling you’ll twist yourself into knots avoiding the obvious.
Kirk is an imbecile, and clearly did not read any of the links that accompanied the post.
I’m consistently amazed at these wannabe hipsters who bash Sly and the Family Stone.
Relevant:
“Stand!
They will try to make you crawl
And they know what you’re saying makes sense and all
Stand!”
“Could you guys pass a list of the sorts of people who can criticize Israeli policies to the Post.”
Well, you see, that’s just it – they’ve picked Israel out for extra-special treatment, or “criticism” for reasons that should be apparent. There is no similar solidarity with the Kurds, and criticism of the several Nations that violently oppress their resident populations. One could pick example after example of the brutality of other Nations in a single week which far outstrip, merely as a matter of proportion, all of the colorable claims against the State of Israel from its beginnings to present that never find their way into the New York Times or Oliphant’s tedious funny papers.
“Why Israel?” is a valid question that you seem to ignore as a matter of course.
Yeah, Kirk, those poor widdle Palis, who only ever kill Israelis, and one another, by total accident.
You do know they authorized crucifixion as a punishment in Paliland, right?
That Star of David Shark thingy made me think of some of the silly special effects renderings in “Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou.”
Steve would totally dynamite that Star of David Shark thingy if it tried to eat Esteban…or Ned, uh, I mean, Kingsly.
I wonder if it feeds on Florescent Snapper.
Or just “Gazans.”
don’t call me…
nigger/whitey
love the fur boots on jonny carson
hi-yo
iffn’ some smartypants has the propa quote
i take my toy battle bot off field
and swing low..
sweetie
Mostly, I think of somebody’s fist upside Oliphant’s head as I do Dr. Johnson’s foot to the stone.
Or maybe a Doc Martens boot to Oliphant’s stones.
Hey, Sdferr: ever run across a book called Boswell’s Clap? I know it only by rumor, but it’s supposed to dish plenty of dirt on Dr. J. and his groupie Boz.
Is it just me, or did anyone else have to check the date and place of publication on that cartoon?
Seriously, how can anyone publish that and NOT recognize its inherent anti-Semitism?
Never have SBP.
boots
check aroo i’m all on it
shins
glad u asked-got my bobby orr future shin pads
garters- oh-p’shaw!
cup?
cup?
atheletic support?
don’t need ’em
republicans ain’t got no balls no how
clem? u say?
“a- ya”
a…
a…
a…cheevers
Devils go down tomorrow night. Down they go, think it with me pens, down to defeat.
Shitting on Jews after actively campaigning for that piece of shit what worshiped in that Jew-hating church for twenty years is about the most gratuitous thing I can imagine a newspaper doing in Barack Obama’s America in 2009. The Washington Post needs to hold someone accountable cause this Oliphant hate speech is same as Stormfront I think as far as the level of sophistication it appeals to. What did Howard Kurtz have to say about this?
They’ll be joining the Chicago Sun-Times and Tribune soon, ‘feets.
‘Cause Barky spreads a happy economy wherever he goes.
Devils go down tomorrow night.
Even with Satan down at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, done.
i don’t
whatever
bruin be #1 stat wise
but…
broduer be sweet/
plus the fucking canadiens
i hate[disluike] em
should be fun!
btw/ deeetroit yzerman was the greatest
also joe sakic
pat roy
and… give it to me…
give it….
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Thanks Lamont. Coffee all over the keyboard.
Who was that Russian played for the Red Wings that got fucked up in the limo crash, buttons? Best open ice hitter I ever saw.
Konstantinov. Total bad ass.
What does the Washington Post have to do with this? Oliphant is a syndicated cartoonist. The Post has its own editorial cartoonist (Tom Toles). They occasionally run syndicated material on the weekend, but, to my knowledge, this cartoon did not appear in the Post. Does anyone have reason to think otherwise?
This cartoon appeared in the anti-semitic dirty socialist Washington Post. What hates Jews. Jew-hating dirty socialist propagandists.
Most American institutions what adapt European affectations like socialisms and artisanal cheese hate Jews. It’s a thing.
Radosh’s original link to the WaPo seems to yield a 404 now. Means the WaPo pulled it, I take it?
I think so. I don’t think the syndicator can pull something once it’s out there.
I don’t know that for sure though.
Using the search marked current here, they’ve got 404’s for both March 25 and March 24, but not for any dates further back.
That Oliphant dude seems like a real dick.
i just remember larianov/ markhov
and…hey moe- shemp ov
konstantinov was defence?-he was a bad man
ya…
and oh lordy
tretiak