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http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/ArabCartoons.htm

Cartoons from the Arab World

A selection of cartoons from

the media of seven Arab countries (Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain,

Syria and Egypt) and from the Palestinian Authority is displayed below.

A number of these countries are regarded as moderate or allied to the West.

Most print media in the Arab world are under the full or partial control

of the ruling regimes.

One picture can sometimes be deadlier than a thousand words.

-- Tom Gross

The cartoon above, clearly depicting the railroad to the death

camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau – but with Israeli flags replacing the Nazi ones

– is from the Jordanian newspaper Ad-Dustur (October 19, 2003). The sign

in Arabic reads: “Gaza Strip or the Israeli Annihilation Camp.” This accentuates

the widespread libel that Israel’s policies towards the Palestinians have

been comparable to Nazi actions towards Jews. Jordan is supposedly a moderate

country at peace with Israel.

In this cartoon, from Al-Watan newspaper in Qatar (June 23,

2002), Ariel Sharon is shown watching on the sidelines as an Israeli plane

crashes into New York’s World Trade Center. The Arabic words alongside the

Twin Towers are “The Peace.” This cartoon restates the widely held myth

in the Arab world that Israel and the Jews were responsible for the 9/11

attacks which were in fact of course carried out by al-Qaeda.

The cartoon above, from Arab News (April 10, 2002), shows

Ariel Sharon wielding a swastika-shaped axe to chop up Palestinian children.

Arab News is a Saudi-based English language daily which is supposedly one

of the Arab world’s more moderate papers.

This cartoon from the Internet site of Omayya Joha, portrays

an Israeli soldier who, having chopped off the foot of a Palestinian man,

holds up a bloody hand to the camera and orders “No photographs.” Omayya

Joha is one of the staff cartoonists employed by Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda, the

Palestinian Authority’s official daily newspaper. Her cartoons continue

to regularly appear in the official Palestinian press.

Above, Ariel Sharon is shown sitting in a large cup overflowing

with blood. This cartoon, also by Omayya Joha, appeared in Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda,

the Palestinian Authority’s official daily newspaper, on April 22, 2003.

In this cartoon, from Al-Watan (Oman) (August 10, 2002), Jewish

acts are equated with those of the Nazis. This Nazi-type anti-Semitic caricature

of a Jew has a hooked nose, a hunched back, has no shoes, and is sweating.

In the above cartoon, from Akhbar Al-Khalij (Bahrain) (June

10, 2002), the anti-Semitic caricature of a Jew on the right says: “Say:

‘I hate the Arabs!’” and American president George W. Bush, made to resemble

a parrot, repeats: “I hate the Arabs, I hate the Arabs.”

Above, another cartoon from the Internet site of official

Palestinian Authority cartoonist Omayya Joha, showing alleged Jewish control

(in the form of snakes) of the United States. The snake was often used to

portray Jews in historic European anti-Semitic images.

This cartoon, from May 13, 2005 (a month when many western

papers were claiming that the Palestinian Authority media had adopted a

more moderate tone), shows a Jew impaling the northern region of a map of

the Islamic world with the flag of Israel, with blood spurting out. At the

lower end is what seems to be an Arab man hanging upside down, holding a

white flag of surrender. This cartoon appeared in Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda, the

official daily newspaper of the Palestinian Authority.

This cartoon, from the Syrian newspaper Al-Ahram (May 29,

2002), shows an anti-Semitic caricature of a Jew with a long beard and hooked

nose, fuelling the “World Media” with “Zionist Media” propaganda, while

in the background bombs are falling on the Moslem al-Aqsa shrine on Jerusalem’s

Temple Mount. This cartoon stereotypes Jews, repeats the anti-Semitic myth

that the Jews control the world media, and adds the lie that the Israeli

government has damaged the al-Aqsa complex on the Temple Mount.

Selection, text of the captions and juxtaposition of cartoons

© Copyright Tom Gross

Edited August 15, 2011 by scandal

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And a few more....

The cartoon above, with text in English designed for a foreign

audience, was posted on the official website of the Palestinian Authority

State Information Center on April 6, 2003. The Palestinian Authority State

Information Center regularly posts ugly anti-Israel and anti-American cartoons,

including this reiteration of the anti-Semitic blood libel that Jews kill

non-Jewish children.

The cartoon above, from the Egyptian weekly Al-Ahram al-Arabi

(June 8, 2002), shows not only members of the Likud party murdering Arabs,

but long-time Labor Party leader and Israeli “dove” Shimon Peres standing

aside and applauding with bloody hands. Egypt is the second highest recipient

of U.S. aid in the world. The U.S. senate has approved a $1.84 billion aid

package for Egypt for 2006.

This cartoon is from Al-Watan (Qatar), May 13, 2003. The U.S.

and Israel are shown eating from two sides of an apple that represents “the

Arab states”. This cartoon is also noteworthy since it was published in

Qatar, home to the influential Al Jazeera TV network. Qatar is considered

by many in the U.S. State Department to be a U.S. ally and a relatively

moderate state.

The cartoon above, from Arab News, depicts rats wearing Stars

of David and skullcaps. They scurry backwards and forwards through holes

in the wall of a building called “Palestine House.” Arab News, an English-language

daily widely read by expats in Saudi Arabia, is widely-regarded as a moderate

publication. It is published by a state-owned Saudi corporation. The imagery

in the cartoon may well be inspired by a well-known scene from the Nazi

film “Jew Suess,” to which it bears a close resemblance – a scene in which

Jews are depicted as vermin to be eradicated by mass extermination.

Selection, text of the captions and juxtaposition of cartoons

© Copyright Tom Gross

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