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Top Spanish newspaper's cartoon: Jewish money

Woman: "How can Israel violate with total impunity all moral and international laws?"

Religious Jew: "It costs us a great deal of money"

 

Elements:

1) Jewish money conspiracy, based on the belief that Jews are all rich and that they conspire to control politics, the media, etc.

2) Demonization of Israel, consistently presenting it as a violator of international laws, based on holding it accountable to impossible standards that no other country is expected to keep.

3) Presenting local Jews as implicit in the actions of the State of Israel, thereby casting them as outsiders with a loyalty to a foreign country and not to their native land, and at the same time making them morally punishable for the wrongdoing of that foreign country.

4) The Jew as immoral and unconscionable

 

Artist: Romeu

Published in El País, the most widely read daily newspaper in Spain (391,815 copies sold each day), on June 30, 2009.