Back in 2019 Columbia University’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter had been holding their annual ‘Israel Apartheid Week’ on campus and one of the posters used to promote garnered the wrath of local jewish groups as well as Israeli media.
This is the poster concerned:
The claim that this is an ‘anti-Semitic caricature’ was made by ‘Columbia Students Supporting Israel’ who claimed on Facebook that:
‘This kind of repugnant caricature of Jews is a sore reminder of blatant anti-Semitism from the dark ages of medieval Europe when anti-Semitic propaganda depicted Jews as satanic consorts and an incarnation of absolute evil. Physically, Jews were portrayed as menacing, hirsute, with boils, warts and other deformities, sometimes with horns, cloven hoofs and tails. It is extremely painful to see that the same rhetoric is being used on the campus of an Ivy League university in the United States.’ (1)
This quite frankly is nonsense as any rational person can see. The Palestinian is throwing the spray paint can towards the Israeli soldier whose head it hits and then cracks his helmet causing a cartoon bump to appear. I cannot agree with Russia Today’s rather lacklustre attempt to ‘present both sides’ on this issue (2) because it is just so clear cut.
It isn’t a ‘devil’s horn’ – he is almost always depicted with two and nor is My Little Pony ‘evidence’ that it is a horn and even if it were then it clearly would be a unicorn not a devil – and it certainly isn’t ‘dehumanizing jews’ or some other such rubbish. Therefore it isn’t ‘anti-Semitic’ in any way, shape or form and just another example of the desperate and general myopia of the Israel Lobby.
Scratch yet another ‘anti-Semitic hate crime’.
References
(1) https://www.jns.org/columbia-students-accused-of-anti-semitic-poster-to-push-israel-apartheid-week/; also see https://www.foxnews.com/faith-values/columbia-students-for-justice-in-palestine-accused-of-anti-semitic-imagery-in-posters-promoting-israeli-apartheid-week
(2) https://www.rt.com/usa/455654-horn-bump-viral-controversy/