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Wednesday, November 26 2003Evolution of an OutrageIn 1819, Francesco de Goya painted the grotesque "Saturn Devouring One of His Children" :
In January, 2003 editorial cartoonist Dave Brown of Britain's Independent penned this horrible allusion to the Goya painting, with Ariel Sharon eating a Palestinian child:
The Brown cartoon was then adopted by radical Islamic groups in India this summer as part of their vicious anti-America and anti-Israel campaign:
And now...the UK's Political Cartoon Society has given the Brown cartoon first prize in its annual "Cartoon of the Year" competition, winning out over 34 other entries! From the pages of a paper, to the global political realm, to professional approbation - has the "Demonize Israel" campaign gotten so out of hand?! Contact the Political Cartoon Society here. UPDATE: Here's Israel's real attitude toward Arab babies: "A week-old Iraqi infant has arrived in Israel to undergo an operation to correct a congenital heart defect," the Associated Press reports. An Israeli organization called Save a Child's Heart brought Bayan Jassem to the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, south of Tel Aviv, whose director, Moshe Mashiah, came to Israel as a refugee from Iraq in 1951. UPDATE: The founder of the Political Cartoon Society has written to us with this statement: You have all taken this award completely out of perspective and context. Shame on you! We do so much good. If only you looked at our website properly you would have noticed that in fact we promote anti-facism and educate about the dangers of extremism. It's hard to learn anything from the PCS site (it's poorly done), but let's assume Dr. Benson is right and the organization has done "so much good" to fight facism. If so, we have here a prime example of how the European left has warped its moral compass when it comes to Israel, falsely ascribing to Israeli democracy the most horrific characteristics of totalitarianism, while downplaying the greatest threat to all liberal societies today: radical Islam.
TrackBackTrackBack URL for this entry: Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Evolution of an Outrage: CommentsWe have the Philadelphia Inquirer that also loves to put its jewish readers in a bad light also. Anti-Semitism will NEVER be erased! It is a money maker for far too many people. You can have inter faith services from today to tommorow, but the feelings will never change. Disgusting. This shows the intolerance of Jews in a supposedly "civilized" nation, Britain. If this award is allowed to stand it is time for all Jews to abandon the UK and let theantisemites their see what ecconomic havoc would be caused there. I thought at first that this was a provocation, that it couldn't be true that intelligent and I assume respectable and respected people could be so viciously antisemitic. Have you no shame, no intelligence left? Wake up Yidden! It's time to arm yourselves. If you don't, the next time they come for the Jews you will be just some more to be added to the six million. JOIN AND/OR SUPPORT THE JDL! this is what i sent to the Political Cartoon Society today.... When it first appeared, I viewed The Die Sturmer-type cartoon with sick horror as a sign that the covert anti-Jewishness that I grew up with in the UK had at last become not only overt, but acceptable. The fact that it was so obviously unrepresentative of the nature of the Israeli people, including Sharon, made me believe that it would be universally derided as the work of a raving lunatic. But now that this despicable manifestation of racial bias has been lauded, it signals to all right-thinking individuals that anti-Semitism, whether Islam-or Nazi-induced has indeed raised its ugly head again. Britain at the moment can't really see anti-semitism, as they try and excuse the outright racism with anti-zionism - with so many people calling for the end of the State of Israel. In most anti-Jewish attacks people say it's because of the middle eastern situation and about how palestinians are treated, but if there's an attack against a Muslim, it's seen as racism. The double standards are glaringly apparent now and I don't think it will be too long before the majority of Jews in the UK will be "legitimate targets" for the hatemongers, which right now, seems to be a large percentage of the population here. Anti-semitism is trendy, fashionable and isn't anything to be whispered any more - it's out in the open... but if you're not an anti-semite you don't stand a chance of fitting in... I am curious, since when did the Jewish public EVER assume the British were a civilized country? They would like themselves to be... but underneather their stiff necked "proper" attitude is the same devilish hatred that got the Germans going... How they forget so fast... Do you not realize how many Jews have been murdered because of blood libels, so clearly recalled in your "first place" political cartoon? Actually, you probably do, because this is anti-Semitism at its worst. At a time when terrorists are deliberately targeting children, you blame their lead defender when he would happily give the Palestinians a state if they would only stop the killing. You would never do this if Sharon were not a Jew. That makes your organization a group of anti-Semites. Which isn't surprising; we know Europe's rich history of defending Jewish life. Britain is racist, homphobic and anti-semitic and always has been. I did't see a stone in babies hands. I did't see his father who really killed jewish children. To the Political Cartoon Society: This is not an enquiry, it is a comment. I am ashamed to be British and would want nothing to do with your society which is prepared to promote violent, disgusting anti-semitism to the masses, via your 'prize winning cartoon'. There is nothing clever about the cartoon. It promoted pure hatered and anti-semitism, reminiscent of 1930s Germany. It reflects the sick 'herd mentality' of those who know nothing of the realities in the Middle East. You are simply promoting hatred - may you collect your hateful karma. It represents not one molecule of the true situation here. Palestinians receiving mass social security payments from the Israeli government (the only payments of their kind - none in the Arab neighbours). Israeli taxpayers paying the massive costs of the many honour killings of wives and daughters and sisters by Arab residents. Israel always willing to send assistance when disaster strikes her neighbours. Arab children from counrties such as Iraq being treated by Israeli doctors in Israel funded by an economy that is being strangled by the global hatred you promote. Well done indeed! But it will come back to haunt you, soon enough... My email comment to the "cartoon society" was: Gentlemen, Have you thought about changing the name of your "society" in order to reflect a more correct image (or should I say cartoon)of what your true "poltical" agenda is? I would certainly give it some hard, reflective thought after having awarded your 'annual' kudos to Mr. Dave Brown for his unmasterful, dehumanizing reflection of his own PAGAN(ized), NEO-NAZI(fied)political perspective on the Middle East. How very British of you to fall in line and shout "Hiel Hitler". This is a bad example of Britains willing cooperation in the worldwide Islamic jihad. The cartoon, despicable and unoriginal, was the winner? Long term, Britain will be the loser as the terrorists start blowing up the British. The bombings in Istanbul are but a wakeup call. Wake up and join the fight against the Jihad. British western values are a target. The Islamic fundamentalists are your enemy. Appeasement does not work. Remember WWII? It appears that the Europeans have yet to let go of their own anti Jewish Christian scriptures, which Pope John Paul took upon himself to remove from their religious doctrine. Coupled with those of Islam, as well as an increasing Moslem population spreading in great numbers all over Europe, makes the whole continent a hotbed of anti Jewish propaganda turning the European public opinion into a slandering hating machine. Let us hope forr sake that in time, Islam and Christianity will come to their own and understand that hatred can only greed violence backwardness. How disgusting that the cartoon should have been published at all in the first place. An Iraqui Arab child was sent to Israel for correcting a congenital heart defect after you British and the EU refused to accept the infant. Who are the civilised people the Israelis or you hypocritical Once again Anti-semetism is rearing its ugly head around the world. The level of anti-semetism in the world is higher than it was prior to the Holocaust, wether its disguised as "anti-zionsim, or anti-israel" it all boils down to baseless Jew-hating. It is absolutely shocking that a dangerous and inciteful cartoon should win any prize. Civilized people should loudly condemn such a horrendously hateful and false piece of anti-semitism. The prize winning cartoon of Sharon eating a Palestinian child is revolting. I shudder to think that a "civilized" society such as yours would stoop so low as to chose this cartoon as it's first place winner. This is an example of anti-semitism at it's best. Who is the real hatemonger here. I believe it is those who would even publish this trash. Go on keep blaming Israel for all the "ills" of the Arabs. Israel took in an Iraqi Arab child with a life threatening congenital heart defect after Britain and the EU refused to accept the infant. Is this a racist society I ask you? Who really are the hate-filled racists here? Certainly not the Israelis! Disgusting....Despicable!!! Mr. Brown has created a political cartoon that would have made the "little corporal" proud. It is sad that a so-called "civilized society" like the U.K. would not out and out ban this kind of filth and prevent it from being published. Human language is inadequate to describe the catoon, its author and the Society which published and rewarded it even with prize. Whether Mr Brown likes it or not, there is a God in the Universe and the Jewish People are His people. The Bible clearly explains why they are in their predicament today, but god has not appointed anyone, be they Christian, Muslim or otherwise to be their Judge, Jury or executioner. On the contrary, God said that He would bless those who bless the descendants of Abraham through isaac and Jacob. political cartoon society, The Jews "conspired" to impose on the world the Ten Commandments, the Rule of Law, Charity and Democracy (all Jewish concepts when the nations of the world still murdered, raped and enslaved) and you just cannot forgive them. Sydney, Australia Jews are the canaries in the coalmine of civilization. Sydney, Australia Sadly,this sort of thing has all come upon our nation before. Perhaps we have learned something about those around us that appear to be humans in their physical forms, but are not....they will as always, reap as they have sewn in the future;it's just that we who also inhabit this planet at this time will also reap what we have sewn...in the same future. God help us,God help humanity. My response to the Political Cartoon Society. To whom this may concern: How could you, as an educated group of people, select the horrible, anti-Israel and by virtue of the picture's origin of Satan as the devourer, anti-Semitic "cartoon" of Ariel Sharon eating Arab children? How about instead, a caricature of the Israeli hospital set up for the Muslim Albanians expelled by the Serbs? Or maybe a caricature of the hundreds of Palestinian Arab lives saved by Israel's heath care system and civilized way of life? Birth mortality is the lowest for Arabs in Israel than in any other Arab nation, maybe you should have Ariel Sharon eating the angel of death and bringing life to these Arabs? Maybe it would be appropriate to show Arab Israelis living in peace within Israel's borders and contrast that to the daily attacks on Jews living within Palestinian declared territory? Or suppose the caricature chosen would show how Jordan still has a law forbidding Jews to live in Jordan, as well as the numerous other Arab nations that have similar laws? How about showing the supposed God fearing Islamic clerics who incite murder in their preaching and go so far as to call Jews the children of Satan and descendants of monkeys? Or maybe the daily, state sponsored anti-Semitism perpetrated by Arab countries would make a great caricature? Europeans are not comfortable seeing a strong, successful Jewish nation. With hundreds of years of teaching that Jews are weak and inferior it must really burn the Europeans to see a nation that doesn't let itself get bullied by anybody. Oh how you must long for the good old days when friars can, at the drop of a hat, declare that Jesus must be satisfied with a pyre of Jewish flesh and where the blood of Christ must be redeemed with Jewish blood. Oh how you must long, secretly anyway, for the day when the world will be rid of these people who have had the nerve to survive longer than any other people against all odds and stand as a sign that maybe, just maybe, there is something divine about them that they have managed to withstand everything the non-Jews have thrown at them. Does it pain you that given the chance, the Jew can and did rise up out of the ashes to be reborn as a Phoenix and show the world its beauty and intelligence? How it must urk you Europeans to see Jews getting along fine without you, your God and your blessings. You expect more from the Jew than from the Arab. Arabs can cowardly blow up planes and occupied buildings, can target and kill noncombatants including babies, can torture and terrorize each other and others with impunity. May God bless the state of Israel to outlive all its enemies and bring upon the world an era of peace. One of my Israeli was once asked: what does a Jew need in this world today? His answer surprised and shocked me, but now it seems to me it is in sight of becoming a reality. He said a Jew needs a valid passport, some valid credit cards and a valid gun. Wow. What a nightmare living in this creation can be. There is an alternative. I expect nothing less from such people, their book teaches them to hate! Here are some of the things said in the Hadith and the Koran. "The Resurrection of the dead will not come until the Muslims will war with the Jews and the Muslims will kill them. The trees and rocks will say, `O Muslim, here is a Jew behind me, come and kill him." (Mohammad in the Hadith) "Muslims, take neither the Jews nor the Christians for your friends. They are friends with one another. Whoever of you seeks their friendship shall become one of their number. Allah does not guide the wrongdoers." (Surah 5:51) "Those who make war against Allah and His apostle Mohammad and spread disorder in the land shall be slain or crucified or have their hands and feet cut off on alternate sides, or banished from the land." (Surah 5:33-34) "Prophet, make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal rigorously with them. Hell shall be their home: an evil fate." (Surah 9:73) "When the sacred months are over, slay the idolators wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them." (Surah 9:5) Verses like these from the Koran and Mohammad have continued to produce a great hate in much of Islam against Jews and Christians. One of the founders of Saudi Arabia, al Riyadh Saud, said, "The power struggle between Israel and the Arabs is a long-term historical trial. Victory for defeat are for us questions of existence or annihilation - the outcome of an irreconcilable hatred." The founder of the terrorist organization Hamas proclaimed, "The war is open until Israel ceases to exist and until the last Jew in the world is eliminated." So, how is it that Islam a religion of peace? Bush says that quite often, is he out of his mind? Maybe he should read their holy books first and then decide how peacefull Islam is. He barely understands his own Bible - if he did he'd never offer the land of Israel to the Arabs. A more fitting picture would be Arafat eating Jewish children, at least it would be truthful. You have all taken this award completely out of perspective and context. Shame on you! We do so much good. If only you looked at our website properly you would have noticed that in fact we promote anti-facism and educate about the dangers of extremism. Dr Tim Benson The remarks posted by Dan Keys are profound. I would only add that, in the end, good will overcome evil. The Jews are God's chosen people, and His eternal purpose will be fulfilled. Dr Benson, I read the artist's justification for portraying Ariel Sharon as Saturn who eats babies, and still remain unconvinced. In fact, justifying his drawing by explaining that he does not agree with Sharon's politics, only serves to show that he believes it is okay to portray Jews as whatever is most hatefule in our society. I'm sorry, portraying Sharon as one who eats babies does not indicate of a spark of genius; it indicates something else entirely. "You have all taken this award completely out of perspective and context. Shame on you! We do so much good. If only you looked at our website properly you would have noticed that in fact we promote anti-facism and educate about the dangers of extremism. Dr Tim Benson Dr. Benson, I would posit that all the "good" your society does has been undone in one fell swoop. What's done is done and nothing can undo the evil presented and promoted in the publication of this, ahem, cartoon. This prize should be a sign of shame over all British people. Why are they not protesting? To all Jews in Britain, the rest of Europe and America: The time has come to come back home. Come home to Israel. Save your lives, and don't wait until it will be too late. Israel is the best place in the world for a Jew to live in. It will soon be the only place for a Jew to be safe. To all Jews in Britain: Leave the haters behind, come home to Israel. Please show your condemnation of this hate literature to The PCS winning cartoon by Dave Brown, depicting Ariel Sharon eating a Palestinian child, makes one think that there is little or no intelligence in the British news media. This incitement of hate toward the Jews and Israel is perverse and completely unwarrented! It is an out-right lie meant to defame and promote more Arab terror against Israel. Political sattire that is not meant to harm should have some evidence of truth in it's message to the public. Dr. Tim Bensen is the one who has lost his perspective when he defends the PCS against criticizm for this atrocious award presentation. I am a Christian. I owe everything to God because I know Him. Second, I owe a debt to the Jews I can never repay. It is because of the precious Jewish people that I too, know this most wonderful God. I love you my precious Jewish brothers and sisters. May all of God's blessings rest upon each one of you and upon Israel for ever, Linda Rivera. As I look at the first place cartoon I am amazed that an artistic society could award its first place award to something which is so obviously void of originality and creativity. It looks almost like a cartoon image of a painting of "Satan devouring one of the children" by de Goya. I am sure somebody on the commitee must be familiar with that painting. Is this what cartoons have descended to... a form of plagiarism? Tis a pity!! Barry Dr. Benson, I find it repulsive and grotesque that your society has put on a pedestal a cartoon that is virulently anti-semitic and anti-zionistic. I speak of the cartoon by Dave Brown that has been awarded the Cartoon of the Year award. No one says you have to love Israel or that you must love Jews. However, morality and journalistic integrity states that you should at least not promote and encourage hate speech that is designed, as is the cartoon, to mock and villify Israel. If the country and its prime minister were indeed so terrible, would they have recently taken in an IRAQI baby in dire need of medical attention that other European countries refused to provide? I read Mr. Brown's (the catoonist's) justification for his vile depicition of Sharon and the Likud Party - and I am even more appalled by this very obvious hatred of Jews. No wonder the sun now sets on the British Empire, with the hate and evil you are spewing may the sun set on All of the British Empire, Maybe one of the Arab nations will take you in or take you over! No wonder the sun now sets on the British Empire, with the hate and evil you are spewing may the sun set on All of the British Empire, Maybe one of the Arab nations will take you in or take you over! My dearest British brothers, I was thrilled to see your selection for the Cartoon of the Year! It was a pleasure to see you giving your wholehearted support to the cause of Jewish extermination that we unfortunately had to leave unfinished. Yasser Arafat is a faithful disciple of my brother Haj Amin Al-Husseini, mein Fuhrer's bosom friend. Arafat should be allowed to win his War of Terror and obliterate the Jewish state. The Jews in Israel have no right to defend themselves against my Arab Nazi brothers. Any such self-defense on their part should be exposed and condemned by the likes of your Cartoon of the Year! You are a great source of pride to my legacy and to our Great Fuhrer. Keep up the good work! More power to you! Heil Hitler! To: The British Political Cartoon Society Subject: Brown's Sharon cartoon / PCS's selection The fact that Britain's media ethics watchdog, It is an even greater abomination than its just The PCC's opinion adds further insult to the It tells more about the pathology of antisemitism Let me be more specific: One thing that both the Pan-Islamic (i.e., This aim of exterminating the Jewish State is not Or you can use the link below, to visit the --------------------------------------------- FROM THE CONSTITUTION OF THE FATAH MOVEMENT: THE GOALS: Article (12): COMPLETE LIBERATION of As you can see, in the eyes of Israel's Arab Clearly, the P.A. is a genocidal organization It is also a fact that at the Camp David summit Arafat's response was to demand that the Jewish The Palestinian-Arab leader then rushed back to This is when the Israeli voter realized that the Antisemitism is not just about pretending that Antisemitism is also about singling out the Antisemitism is also about condoning, supporting It is in this context that Dave Brown's cartoon Sincerely, It was voted for our members. That's democracy for you. By the way, like me, many of my members are Jewish, except they don't look at Israel through rose-tinted glasses. Those who do didn't vote for it. If you only looked at our website properly you would see all the good we do in fighting extremism. If we are anti-Semitic why did we put on an Exhibition at the London Jewish Cultural Centre last February? or on the great anti- Nazi cartoonist David Low? Political cartooning is by its very nature unfair. I agree the cartoon sailed to close to the blood libel issue. However I know Dave Brown and it was done in ignorance of this. Dr Tim Benson Founder Political Cartoon Society With all due respect Mr. Benson, legitimate criticism of Israel is not the issue here. Your organization selected a cartoon image of the leader of the Jewish state eating an Arab baby. It’s irrelevant if your organization has Jewish members or not. There are many Jews who loath being Jewish and their heritage, i.e. Noam Chomski. The point being made is that it's a false representation of the current events in Israel and farthest from the truth. It’s not that it’s one sided, it’s an outright lie and belongs on an Arab website next to their fallacious and derogatory comments about Jews, many of which are taken directly from 1930’s Nazi propaganda. The disturbing part is that it WAS selected by a majority. The same process was used by Europeans to vote Israel as the biggest threat to world peace. This says a lot about you and your European brethren. This coincides nicely with the current revelation that the European Union is being accused of burying a report that credits the largest wave of Anti-Semitism in Europe since the Nazis, to Moslems and pro-Palestinian groups because they are afraid of anti-Muslim backlash. Imagine that! Keeping the truth from surfacing to appease the violent and criminal groups that perpetrate it. Appeasement. Certainly not something new to the Britts. Neville Chamberlain has taught you nothing. Mr. Benson, I do not know what criteria were used to deem this work worthy of first place, but I do question your reasoning and motives for voting on such an item in the first place. Did you think that this was funny or that it represented the truth? What sort of reaction did you expect when choosing this cartoon over others? By your group allowing this piece to bear your highest approval rating, your group shall also bear the shame and the consequences of its dissemination. Terence Banes Ir is such a pity that anyone, whether it be a individual or association could praise such an un-Holy work. The Jews have always been the worlds whipping post and this hideous depiction is right out of Nazi Germany as so many have already said. Anyone who could award such a cartoon in such a way is nothing more than a racist. The Jews have done so much for the world and yet they are considered barabarians. Well, the cartoon, and those who praise it show who the true barabarians are. Mr. Benson, you say that your organization has done much against fascism and other issues. Well, the Bible says that even "a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump." Leaven in the Bible signifies corruption and death. All the "good" you say has been done by the "The Political Cartoon Society" has been nullified by one little cartoon! In another comment someone quoted from the Bible "I will bless those who bless you". God is speaking to Abraham here. Well that person left out the second half of the verse so I will fill in the blank. The second half states: "and I will curse those who curse you." I would advise you get right with God sometime soon! It's not just baby Bayan that Israel has been instrumental in saving. For the last 5 years I have been receiving prayer updates about other babies from the man who organized Bayan's surgery. Israeli doctors have graciously and skillfully done open heart surgery on at least a dozen (probably far more)Palestinian infants with life threatening heart defects with no cost to the families and significantly reduced cost to the charitable funding organization because they cherish life. I feel grieved that the Jewish people have been portrayed in such a debased manner. This picture should have Yasser Arafat on it eating Israelis.The world thinks that we are not allowed to defend our country let alone exist FUCK YOU. If I had my way I would march all the Israelis into ther West Bank blow it up than all the survivors I would shot them in th head and when all the Palestines are DEAD burn their flags and movie on with the rest of the muslims. Cause honesly people what have the muslims done to this world NOTHING. They want nothing so let them have nothing all they do is blow up out building our countrys and our hearts. They blew up the World Trade Centers they blow up innocent Israelis that want to live there lives but can't because of ignorance over some stupid rock. they blow up embasseys in Turkey in Iraq and in the Philiipians. If you wonder that last 20 years everything bad that has happened is the muslims EVERYTHING!!!!!. I have nothing more to say just one more thing...... FUCK BRITAIN, FUCK FRANCE, FUCK MUSLIMS EVERYWHERE. I AM FOR THE STATE OF ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE. Ok. I read your "rationale" for creating the cartoon, Dr.Brown. You need to be aware of how this sort of thing can affect different societies. It is similar to using sex to sell a product. You may sell more of the product, but some of that is strained through childrens eyes via TV, etc. and a thirteen year old girl may think that they need to be succulent or sexually active to have people like them. Your cartoon hits the roots of Israelis and Extreme Islamic's/anti-semitic's oppositely. The Israelis & supporters are outraged because they know anti-Israeli's will have another hate-filled lie to stand on....and they DONT know that it is just a joke. They think that Jew's are decendants of pigs (and now monkeys) and that they use childrens blood in their pastries. Come on! Anyone that is not for Jews will see this as the truth. As for you. I know the images you talk about are real. I also know that any country that would stand around and let people plot to strap explosives around their waist and blow up a bus or plan then next car bombing would REALLY be crazy. Latteral damage is unfortunately innevitable in trying to defend or take out these groups. However, latteral damage for a suicide bomber is hailed as a success, weather it be children or their own people. At least Israel helps innocent children and people injured in these actions by offering medical assistance. I realize you don't support PM Sharon or his motives. I also don't support ALL of Bush's actions. Yet, these leaders are for trying to better their own peoples lives and the world at that. Don't forget who started the Holocaust or the Intifada. Their nature is way too similar to not acknowledge! I pray to the Lord Jesus, He has mercy on your anti-semitic souls. It is never too late to ask for forgiveness. We are all sinners. Come as you are and ask Jesus into your heart. Jesus said,
Dear Mr. Benson, Be honest with yourself, sir: you made a terrible mistake awarding anything but derision to Mr. Brown's disgusting cartoon. Wit and a crafty pen without a thinking mind and kind heart will not create anything to help the human situation. Too little cannot be said or made of Mr. Brown. Freedom is a privilege that brings with it the responsibility for consequences of your actions. Both of you fueled the fires of antisemitism. Complete amends are impossible, but that does not obviate you from trying. Having many decent people (and a few low-literacy morons) blast you for your mistake no doubt put you on the defensive--I read some of your feeble protestations to criticism of the society's poor judgement: so you had good intentions--so what? 'Dave Brown is a nice guy'--so what? There were no hooked noses on the people--so what? No Israeli insignia on the helicopters--so what? "...we do so much good"--not this time. "The cartoon was chosen because of its impact." What kind of impact were you trying to make? Dr. Benson, You wrote: "It was voted for our members. That's democracy for you. By the way, like me, many of my members are Jewish, except they don't look at Israel through rose-tinted glasses." Perhaps you are aware that Adolf Hitler was also elected by democratic vote of the people? And, yes, there were even some Jews who voted for him. If something or someone is democratically chosen, that does not mean that it is the most morally just choice. All it means is that the person (or cartoon) reflects the views, be they morally just or not, of the majority of the voters. And that, Dr. Benson, is by far the most disturbing aspect of the case of your cartoon - that this is the view of the majority of your members, be they Jews or not. Of course the second-most disturbing aspect is that you continue to defend the "choice" of your organization, when otherwise you could have chosen (and still could choose) to acknowledge how repugnant the cartoon is, and choose to take a stand and retract its first-place status. But, it is becoming apparrent that you are just not that sort of person. Dan K. IF I MAY BE SO BOLD AS TO SPEAK MY MIND. I AM ASTOUNDED THAT PEOPLE OF THE PRESS WHO HAVE NEVER BEEN TO ISRAEL, TAKEN THE TIME TO LEARN THE HORRIFIC HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE OR EVEN ONLY BEEN TO DACHAU AND STOOD ON THE SOIL AND FELT THE HORROR THAT WAS REAL CAN MAKE LIGHT OF THEM. I AM NOT A JEW, BUT I HAVE BEEN THERE AND FELT THE HORROR, IT IS REAL! THE FEELING IS NOTHING I WISH FOR ANYONE TO EXPERIENCE, BUT IF YOU HAVE THE POWER TO INFLUENCE OTHERS PERHAPS YOU MIGHT FIND A LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE BY A TRIP TO GERMANY, IF YOU WISH A STRONGER LESSON TRY POLAND. I WILL BET YOUR STATEMENTS, THOUGHTS AND LIFE WILL BE FOREVER CHANGED. JUST A SUGGESTION, MICHAEL THOMAS ooops, I made a mistake in my statements above. Please for give me for my poor English. I am sure that my 2nd grade teacher would be very upset I did not proof read my statements. Still, I hate the idea this type of thing is still apart of this world. Michael ooops, I made a mistake in my statements above. Please for give me for my poor English. I am sure that my 2nd grade teacher would be very upset I did not proof read my statements. Still, I hate the idea this type of thing is still apart of this world. Michael ooops, I made a mistake in my statements above. Please for give me for my poor English. I am sure that my 2nd grade teacher would be very upset I did not proof read my statements. Still, I hate the idea this type of thing is still apart of this world. Michael I am not Jewish, and I find the cartoon totally unacceptable and of poor taste. I find the Muslim position in all this unacceptable. Their mentality to destroy the Jewish nation and all Americans is pure out ignorance at work. Where is their compassion for life & their morals ? This entire dispute is a waste of human lives, time and money and makes no point or conclusion that flies in my book. Why don't they wake up and realize what they are doing is not of God !!! This cartoon--and the fact that it was chosen as cartoon of the year!--is another evidence of the warped anti-Semitic mind. The impact of false reporting against Israel is rampant and obscene. Prejudice is blinding the judgment of media and governments. It is becoming more obvious that the nations who divided the Middle East out of greed for Oil [specifically Great Britain hacking off land for Jordan, France hacking land for Syria and Lebanon–and the UN and US forcing Israel's to give land to terrorists], are now themselves being threatened by oil terrorism in retribution. The cartoon is in all sense pure anti-semitic and nuisance to the state of Israel. "However I know Dave Brown and it was done in ignorance of this." -Dr Tim Benson Is Ignorance a criteria for reward? Are you, Dr. Tim Benson stupid too? You just shot your defence in the foot, or should I say you just ate your baby!? You are a bastard because you forget your heratage and the anguish of your people. I am not Jewish, but know a good case when I see one. Yours, sir is not a good case. Mr Benson I am daughter of a jewish father and a catholic mother, cousin of two young boys killed by palestinian homicide-suicide-bombers. You wrote: You have all taken this award completely out of perspective and context. Shame on you! We do so much good. If only you looked at our website properly you would have noticed that in fact we promote anti-facism and educate about the dangers of extremism. which context? My opinion is that you and your association are extremely stupid. And that kind of stupidity is extremely dangerous! There is a principle which Dave Brown, the infamous cartoonist in The Independent, should take to heart. If you cannot help don't hinder. The aid and comfort which his horrible cartoon gave to an entirely undeserving terror machine will not do him any credit with hate filled Muslims who will as soon put him to the sword as we Jews. There are many writers in The Independent whose editor is shamefully Jewish who cannot wait to make disparaging remarks about Israel. Alan Jenkins recently calimed that Tony Blair's recent actions in support of the US in the Middle East had made Britain the third most reviled country in the world after US and Israel. Looks like Mr Blair got that right then when compared to the cowards in the EU. Perhaps the most revealing item in the above posts is the point about Dave Brown becoming the object of a fatwa if he had transposed Sharon with Arafat. Brave isn't he this Mr Brown who sits in liberal Britain and cows in front of implied Arab threats. These guys could have given Neville Chamberlain lessons in appeasement as could the 52 former ambassadors who deigned to criticise Tony Blair recently. The barbarians are at the gates and these people are ushering them in. Some people never learn. I visited Dachau in 1989, it was chilling to be in a place that was once an assembly line of death, and the death of Jews - God's gift to the world (as the Messiah of mankind is a Jew). I stood in the tiled bathroom that was really a gas chamber, I saw the cement wall that Jews were lined up against and shot (and the bullet holes and scars in the cement are still there to recreate the horrible expereience for you). I saw the ovens. But what I found most disturbing of all was an area where there were large wooden posts stuck in the gound (at least the diameter of a telephone pole and approximately 15 feet high). The posts were shiny with a strong shellac looking finish. We asked what these posts were? We were told that this is where the Nazis would take certain prisoners and strap, hang, or mount them to these poles and torture them. I guess it wasn't enough just to kill the people they hated, they had to torture them first. I wondered what tortures went on there and for how long they would last. To this day I can't get the pictures of this out of my mind. When you stand on the grounds of Dachau, you know you are in a satanic and demonic place, you can feel it, and you can hear the voice of the blood of the Jews cry out from the ground. One (of conscience) cannot stay long in this place. In 1991 I visited Israel with my church, we toured the whole Country. As soon as our airplane entered Israel airspace I could feel God's presence there, it was an unbelievable and exhilirating feeling (one I honestly was not expecting). At that moment I knew I was in God's Country and I felt humbled before God, because I suddenly knew that you don't go to God's Country without God's permission. God had given me permission to visit his Country. While in Israel we visited nearly every Holy site, we saw the evidence that God's chosen people (the Jews) had lived in this land for thousands of years, and that it was given to them by God. I found the Jewish and Israeli people to be the nicest, kindest people I have ever met in my entire life (and I have travelled to many places and have met many peoples), I could feel their love for other people and their love for life. I realized how the news media has distorted the world's perception of Israel and the Jews. In Genesis (1st Moses) Chapter 12, verse 3: God says to Abraham "I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse." The nations of the world should heed those words. And before they curse the Jews they may want to visit Dachau first and feel the satanic demonic creepyness of that place, and then ask themselves if they really feel the same. They should also visit Israel and feel the love that the Jewish people have for others and for life, and then ask themselves if they feel the same. what is wrong with eating babies? they are not even fully conscious yet. it is just like eating chickens or dogs. My God.. you're a sorry bunch. No wonder the world hates Israel so much. You keep looking for answers everywhere, except inside yourselves. And about the cartoon: It's not even close to describing the misery Sharon, his predecessors, and your colonialist state have brought upon the Middle East. I think the majority of you are completely missing the point of Brown's cartoon. Is it grotesque? Yes. Is it a complete vilification of Sharon? Yes again. Does he deserve to win the award? Most definitely. What Brown is pointing out, isn't that Sharon's a 'monster' because he's a Jew. He's a monster because he's simultaneously perpetrating the same acts which he is condoning: violence against innocent civilians. When are we going to stop looking at each as Jews, Arabs, Westerners, Europeans and simply accept one another as fellow human beings. What I find particularly troublesome and frustrating is how anti-israeli comments are automatically construed as anti-semitic. People should be allowed critize the actions of the state of Israel, without that label being placed upon them. No one, including Jews, should be allowed to monopolize the status of victim. All of us must start realizing that the enemy is within ourselves and that we harm our own when we strike out at the Other. For those of you that are either fuming in anger or nodding in agreement after reading this, I suggest you read Judith Butler's chapter entitled 'The charge of anti-semitism: Jews, Israel, and the risks of public critique' in her book 'Precarious Life'. That last post seconded. Are all Jews paranoid nutters, or just a select few? Britain is more anti-Muslim than anti-Semitic. Please, this will sound blunt but for you crazy Zionists out there giving Jewish people a bad name - it's NOT 1945 any more, get over it. So, why do they call those 12 funny pics blasphemous? Because that's the truth: MUZZIES DON'T HAVE ANY HUMOR FEELINGS. I don't understand, because the picture was of an Israeli PM, it's anti-semitic? That's like calling a cartoon of George Bush anti-christian. Lets get a clue guys. Some anyone who criticises a jew is an anti-Semite. You haven't a clue what the cartoon is about. It isn't attacking him for being a jew but for being a hypocrite. 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