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The cartoonist… |
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Alaa’ Allaqta, Palestinian cartoonist (Photo from Felesteen, November 5, 2007 ). His cartoons, which recycle anti-Semitic motifs, are published by the Palestinian terrorist organization media and in the Arab countries. |
The title reads "Bilateral meetings.” A Jew as snake (an anti-Semitic symbol of the Jews) has his coils around an Arab who is hugging him, apparently in all good faith (Felesteen, October 27, 2007 ). |
1. Dr. Alaa’ Allaqta is a young plastic surgeon who grew up in Al-Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and studied medicine in Romania . For the last year has been living in Cairo , a visiting doctor at the Ain Shams University medical school.
2. He is famous throughout the Arab world and in recent months has published particularly vicious anti-Semitic cartoons in the Palestinian and Arab media. He has drawn many cartoons, including anti-Semitic ones, which are both published in the Hamas-affiliated Gaza Strip newspaper Felesteen and posted on the Palestinian Islamic Jihad-affiliated Paltoday Website. They also appear in the Qatari newspaper Al-Sharq and in the Saudi Arabian Al-Madinah .
3. His cartoons, which recycle anti-Semitic motifs (with the addition of anti-Israel hate propaganda), have recently been part of a propaganda campaign against the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and the upcoming Annapolis meeting . The Jews are invariably portrayed as negative stereotypes (blood-thirsty, treacherous, greedy), and are represented as snakes and as controlling the American media.
4. Examples of his cartoons follow:
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A stereotyped Jew with bloody hands and a skull on his tie about to take a sack inscribed "the right to return” from a Palestinian holding an olive branch ( Felesteen and Al-Sharq , November 1). |
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A stereotyped Jew proposes peace while planning to stab the Palestinian in the back ( Felesteen and the Paltoday Website, October 19, 2007 ). |
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as a snake coiled around Al-Aqsa mosque. The snake is one of the symbols used by anti-Semites to represent Jews. 1 The inscription reads, "Before the peace meeting: Israel appropriates land in Jerusalem ” (Felesteen, October 16, 2007 ). |
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The Jews as controlling the American media. The inset reads "the American media” (Felesteen, October 3). |
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An Israeli soldier depicted as a stereotyped Jew erasing the word "peace” (Hamas-affiliated newspaper Felesteen, September 9, 2007 ). |
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American aid for Israel : under the inscription "American aid for Israel is estimated at $30 billion.” The American foot on the scale is inscribed "the balance of power” (Paltoday Website, September 2007). |
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An Israeli shooting an unborn Palestinian baby. The inscription reads "[An alleged quotation from the British newspaper] The Independent: Israel ‘s target is [killing] unborn [Palestinian] babies in the their mothers’ wombs” (from the Qatari Al-Sharq, May 14, 2007 ). |
1 Beginning with the 19 th century, and more so after the publication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion at the beginning of the 20 th , the Jews were identified by anti-Semites with snakes and octopuses. Both appear in many cartoons and illustrations in books throughout the Arab-Muslim world. Representing Ehud Olmert as a snake is the recycling of similar cartoons in which Ariel Sharon, Ehud Barak and other important Jewish and Israeli figures were also featured as snakes.
