Anti-Semitic Cartoon in the San Diego Union-Tribune

Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), May 18, 2001

The San Diego Union-Tribune today printed an op-ed by Yuval Rotem, Israel’s Consul General to the Southwest, accompanied by (in fact wrapped around) a cartoon worthy of the notorious Nazi paperDer Sturmer. The cartoon, drawn by a freelancer according to the paper, showed an apparent murder victim on the ground with a large Jewish Star protruding from his back. Blood seemed to be flowing from the point where the Jewish Star was embedded in the victim’s back.

Whatever the intention of the cartoonist or the paper, the cartoon is extremely offensive and anti-Semitic. It defiles as a weapon of murder and a tool of violence the ancient symbol of the Jewish people.

The paper certainly would not publish a similar cartoon substituting as the murder weapon a Christian Cross or the Muslim Crescent Moon. Why then did it publish a cartoon defaming the Jewish Star and Judaism itself?

It is doubly offensive that this cartoon was used to illustrate the op-ed by Consul General Rotem.

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