Anti-Semitism has come to the forefront in European media this week after an anti-Semitic cartoon was published in Spain and an Austrian prosecutor said that a magazine was justified in describing Holocaust survivors as “murderers.”
In Spain, the Jewish community is threatening legal action against the satirical left-wing magazine El Jueves, in which a cartoon was published showing hook-nosed Israeli soldiers urinating on Palestinians.
Another part of the cartoon shows a hook-nosed Jew pushing a beaten Jesus. Along with these images, the illustrator alleges that Israel is “apartheid 2.0.”
“This is absolutely outrageous and obviously we are going to be seeking legal remedies,” said David Hatchwell, the president of the Jewish community of Madrid and vice president of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Spain, the Jerusalem Post reported.
“This [cartoon] could be taken from the Nazis’ Der Sturmer and nobody would notice the difference….These are lies, totally non-factual, and it’s done in a sophisticated enough way that people who know nothing about the conflict will think that Israelis are Nazi-like oppressors and it affirms every myth [about Jews] in Europe [held] for thousands of years,” he said, calling the cartoon “pure anti-Semitism.”
