It is bizarre to find an ugly antisemitic caricature in the pages of my wife's daily extremist left-wing fishwrap (HaAretz) but it is even more bizarre to read that the author is a New York Jew and this is his contribution to the Israeli Antisemitic Caricatures Competition. It appears there is such a thing.
Thinking it over, it is not really so bizarre. Antisemitic literature always gave me a huge ego-bust: according to it we Jews (moi!) had a mysterious magnetic power that attracts gold to our pockets, we (Yo, Sí Señor!) can control presidents and dictators from behind the scenes, we (aka "J") have such a powerful sexuality (Exactly! That's me!) that blonde virgins cannot resist our advances, et cetera. Sometimes it seemed that antisemitic literature was not the masturbatory phantasy of sickly pervert antisemites, but Jewish adolescents like me.
Well, THIS specific caricature is product of Jewish phantasy, so it may follow that all or most of it is. Or much of it. May be some of it. Who knows?
2 comments:
Maybe what one of your deranged posters said is true - that Jews bring anti-Semitism on themselves as some sort of Darwinian evolutionary strategy - if the finest steel is forged in the hottest fire, then these cartoons pump the blast furnace.
K
But this specific cartoon in HaAretz is most bizarre. Incredible. My father had a yiddisch expression about Moyshe, that Moyshe was having it too good. Meaning that it was too good for his good.
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