Cartoonist Pat Oliphant is coming under attack from the pro-Israel Anti-Defamation League in the US for this cartoon, describing it as hideously anti-semitic. The cartoon is clearly highlighting the appalling irony that the slaughter perpetrated in Gaza was being carried out by a state that claims it was founded as a haven for people that suffered the indisputable and historically unprecedented industrial genocide of the Nazis.
What the cartoon does point to, however, is the way in which the actions of Israel are becoming corrosive on the sympathy rightly due for the six million murdered by the Nazis, an observation senior Jewish Labour MP Gerald Kaufman made in the UK parliament during the war on Gaza.
Which is why increasing numbers of Jewish people are saying, ever more loudly, Israel does not speak in our name.
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