Leading German daily fires Cartoonist for criticising Netanyahu.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...toonist-after-netanyahu-drawing-idUSKCN1IJ1MT

Dieter Hanitzsch who was previously defended by the paper (Suddeutsche Zeitung) for drawing a cartoon mocking Erdogan as defense of freedom of Press and Speech instead fires the same guy for drawing a cartoon criticizing Netanyahu's exploitation of Israel's Eurovision win.

TL : DR
Mock Erdogan and Assad = it's ok . Cause Freedom of Speech & of the Press must be defended
Mock Netanyahu = gets fired cause it claiming it is Anti Semitic.


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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/05/20/german-cartoonist-fired-over-netanyahu-caricature.html

However, this was not the first time Hanitzsch’s work raised eyebrows. The cartoonist previously took aim at Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan – in cartoons published in the same newspaper – but defended his drawings against “Islamophobia” accusers on the basis of freedom of the press and expression


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The Israel supporters are calling the cartoon Anti-Semitic and claiming it evokes Nazi imagery, but you can see for yourself there is nothing Nazi or anti-Semitic about the cartoon. It is critical of Netanyahu for using the Eurovision win to score PR points. The cartoon is standard fare for editorial cartoons criticizing leaders who exploit a situation.

Typical go-to tactic of those defending Israeli policies, trot out the Anti-Semitic card to silence and intimidate critics. Lorde was smeared as being anti-Semitic or quasi Anti-Semitic for not playing in Israel. Natalie Portman , who is Israeli and Jewish, was called Anti-Semitic because she refused to accept an award if Netanyahu was present at the ceremony

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news...hu-boycott-borders-on-anti-semitism-1.6014423
 
So you're mad because Germany doesn't hate Jews enough?
Ahh, regular as clockwork, we get to the type of person who brands any criticism of Israel as anti-semitic / Jew Hatred. So Israel and Jewish groups (like the ADL supporting Turkey in denying the Armenian genocide) can do anything to anyone and any criticism = Anti Semitism.

Ok let's play this same game with other races and ethnic groups then:

Any criticism of Muslims and or Islam = Islamophobic
Any criticism of gentile Whites' past history = racism against Whites . So any criticism of Donald Trump = Racist ! Any criticism of Steve Bannon = racist!
Any criticism of Germans and their past = hatred of Germans
Any criticism of Chinese treatment of Uighurs and Tibetans = racism against the Han
Any criticism of Saudi culture and policies = anti Arab racism and Islamophobia
Any criticism of Pakistan = racism and Islamophobia
Any criticism of Japan's imperial past and contemporary Japanese showing sympathy or paying respects to their war time leaders = anti Japanese criticism.
Any criticism of Spanish and Portuguese treatment of Amerindians = anti White / Anti Iberian racism
Any criticism of African leaders = racism
Any criticism of the actions of the Burmese government and Aung San Suki = racism against the Bamar.
 
If that is what you got from reading that you should probably work on your basic reading comprehension.
No, it's your typical drive-by (to burrow a Rush Limbaugh term) smear that defenders of Israel do. They scream Anti-Semitism or some version thereof to shut down the conversation and cow people. Plus with those few words, they get to put the critics on the back-foot , wasting time trying to argue it isn't Anti-Semitism. It's just a strategy they always play.
 
Ahh, regular as clockwork, we get to the type of person who brands any criticism of Israel as anti-semitic / Jew Hatred. So Israel and Jewish groups (like the ADL supporting Turkey in denying the Armenian genocide) can do anything to anyone and any criticism = Anti Semitism.

Ok let's play this same game with other races and ethnic groups then:

Any criticism of Muslims and or Islam = Islamophobic
Any criticism of gentile Whites' past history = racism against Whites . So any criticism of Donald Trump = Racist ! Any criticism of Steve Bannon = racist!
Any criticism of Germans and their past = hatred of Germans
Any criticism of Chinese treatment of Uighurs and Tibetans = racism against the Han
Any criticism of Saudi culture and policies = anti Arab racism and Islamophobia
Any criticism of Pakistan = racism and Islamophobia
Any criticism of Japan's imperial past and contemporary Japanese showing sympathy or paying respects to their war time leaders = anti Japanese criticism.
Any criticism of Spanish and Portuguese treatment of Amerindians = anti White / Anti Iberian racism
Any criticism of African leaders = racism
Any criticism of the actions of the Burmese government and Aung San Suki = racism against the Bamar.
Noticing a severe lack of africans on this list...

You a racist or something?
 
No, it's your typical drive-by (to burrow a Rush Limbaugh term) smear that defenders of Israel do. They scream Anti-Semitism or some version thereof to shut down the conversation and cow people. Plus with those few words, they get to put the critics on the back-foot , wasting time trying to argue it isn't Anti-Semitism. It's just a strategy they always play.
See I am actually a defender of Israel. But that defense is not absolute. Nor is criticism the same as anti-semitism.
 
the cartoonist has a point with the cartoon but germany is very afraid because of the german history to jews. so they act extremely humbled in terms of jews and israel.

u can critizise everything in germany very hard but criticising everything what has to do with israel or jews, especially in the press is always very problematic there, because of history.
 
the cartoonist has a point with the cartoon but germany is very afraid because of the german history to jews. so they act extremely humbled in terms of jews and israel.

u can critizise everything in germany very hard but criticising everything what has to do with israel or jews, especially in the press is always very problematic there, because of history.

They don't seem to be that afraid considering that they're hauling in a group of people that are a lot more anti-Semitic than that little cartoon.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-04-20/germany-has-a-new-anti-semitism-problem
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...isemitism-envoy-jews-consider-leaving-germany
 
They don't seem to be that afraid considering that they're hauling in a group of people that are a lot more anti-Semitic than that little cartoon.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-04-20/germany-has-a-new-anti-semitism-problem

nah, people in germany who doesnt like the actions of israel are called anti semitic as well. they wanna force the people to like every action that israel likes to do or they called anti semitic as a verbal punishment. but that doesnt solve the problems.
 
nah, people in germany who doesnt like the actions of israel are called anti semitic as well. they wanna force the people to like every action that israel likes to do or they called anti semitic.

So do you consider it rational to take out your belt and whip random people wearing a kippah on the streets, just because you don't like Israel?

 
So do you consider it rational to take out your belt and whip random people wearing a kippah on the streets, just because you don't like Israel?




exceptions prove the rule. there are some antisemitic arabs out there but thats not a prove for something. the problem begins when u call everything anti semitic because of any criticism against israel like the cartoonist.
 
the cartoonist has a point with the cartoon but germany is very afraid because of the german history to jews. so they act extremely humbled in terms of jews and israel.

The grotesque reality is that the brutal and inhuman behavior shown by Israel towards the Palestinians actually causes certain undisciplined minds to become more sympathetic concerning early 20th century Germany's perceptions of its Jewery.
 
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