Gothamist has the cartoon and all the gory details of Pat Oliphant's anti-Semitic offering. It's got the typical anti-Semitic offerings: Nazi symbolism, mindless violence directed at Arabs, and the suggestion that the Jews kill and eat Arabs.
Like I said, this is truly disturbing.
UPDATE:
So, will Oliphant get slammed the way that Sean Delonas did for Delonas' cartoon? Somehow, I think that wont be the case.
UPDATE:
Ed Morrissey at Hot Air links. Thanks. Ed also point to a Barry Rubin analysis that probes the cartoon in far more depth. Rubin thinks it highlights the stupidity of the cartoon and that to claim it is anti-Semitic cuts off debate and/or analysis of the cartoon.
I respectfully disagree with Rubin. The cartoon is anti-Semitic because of the interrelation between the various symbols and what is intended by their use. Oliphant used the Star of David as a device - one that not only stands for the State of Israel, but for the Jewish people. By turning that into an rabid animal bearing its teeth towards the cowering Palestinians, it suggests that there's going to be carnage. That feeds into the old blood libels.
The Nazi imagery is standard issue Arab agitprop against Israel and Jews in general when pro-terrorist supporters rail on Israel's defensive actions to protect itself from Palestinian terrorists who rain down rockets on Israel without mercy and these same terrorists use women and children as human shields.
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