November 27, 2003

Hate cartoons

Roger Simon and Citizen Smash both call attention to a cartoon that the UK’s Independent newspaper first published on Holocaust memorial day.

This Guardian article from March 5 presented both sides of the argument.

In my opinion, whatever the artist’s intention, it’s an anti-Semitic image. The cartoonist may not have known that when he drew the thing, but the people at the Political Cartoon Society knew it when they chose to give it an award.