Garry Trudeau comic is 'anti-Semitic' bemoans ADL, 'How To Cook A Gentile' is OK
By Haitham Sabbah • Jun 12th, 2009 at 15:22 • Category: Cartoon of the day, Culture and Heritage, Features, Haitham's Choice, Newswire, Religion, ZionismAs widely reported, the Anti Defamation League (ADL) has sent a letter to cartoonist Garry Trudeau about his Doonesbury cartoon that ran May 31. They then released the content of that letter to media sources.
Click to Enlarge - Garry Trudeau Doonesbury Cartoon
The ADL is demanding Garry Trudeau to apologize because he "maligned Judaism" and is guilty of promoting "anti-Jewish stereotypes and biblical illiteracy".
I will leave this for concerned religious scholars to decide, but my concern is the multi-faced, racist, hate-promoting ADL and how they work tirelessly to tag anyone and everyone asbeing an anti-Semite if s/he touches or even comes close to anything Jewish, Israeli or Zionist (even if it's baseless), while they play deaf and blind when obvious and clear hate, racist, anti-human and anti-Gentile cartoons are promoted by Zionist-Jews (if you don't know what a Gentile is, well, then according to Zionist-Jews, you're probably a Gentile).
So the question is: How come Abe Foxman finds no hate in the "How To Cook A Gentile" cartoon?
The following Zionist-Jewish cartoon depicts a pair of Jews murdering and killing Gentiles in the best humor of a neo-Nazi!
Click to Enlarge - How To Cook A Gentile
The above cartoon was published by Heeb #16 ("the Goy issue"), as a "family-friendly little comic strip", as per the cartoonist words.
If this is a 'family-friendly', 'non-racist', 'non-hate', humanist peace-loving cartoon, then no wonder or doubt where all the hate is coming from the Zionist-Jew families of Israel and their ilk.
Imagine the ruckus raised by the ADL should a magazine do a cartoon like this about Jews.
Haitham Sabbah is an uprooted Palestinian blogger. He is the webmaster and editor of Palestine Blogs, also webmaster and co-editor of Palestine Think Tank. His personal blog is Sabbah's Blog: http://sabbah.biz/
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I think the "How To Cook A Gentile" comic is supposed to be some sort of ironic commentary, or so it appears to be. It is something that if it had been created by non Jews would likely be the subject of a lot more yelling and screaming than the Trudeau cartoon has been.
http://thejewishreport.blogspot.com/2009/05/bar-ilan-prof-defiant-on-blood-libel.html
A Jewish professor (in Israhell, no less) published a book in which he says that yes, Jews have used the blood of gentiles for ritual purposes. He was forced to recant out of pure fear for his life and those of his family but his was a contribution to truth. Most Jews can believe that gentiles have engaged in all manner of cruelty against them but that they, Jews, would never could never in any time or place have acted like savages towards gentiles, and that anyone who would suggest such a thing is the anti S word..
@Eugene Weixel –
Hi Eugene!
Yes, those are all very interesting points you make. What is the aspect that is the most telling is not the actual content, or even the context, but the reactions to them, based on "intent" and "injokes". A similar example is the same song that Jews or blacks CAN say Kike or Nigger to themselves and one another and others must not. It would be best if even Jews and Blacks did not use derogatory terms regarding themselves or others in their group, because they do lose the right to complain when those not belonging to the groups use these words. Holding up different standards is always a problem, even in the linguistic and meta-linguistic areas.
Regarding the Toaff controversy, it was indeed quite strange as well because his father was the Chief Rabbi of Rome (made the famous meeting with Pope John Paul II and also for this reason was highly acclaimed as a magnimous and wise man). Yet, this same Rabbi himself has some issues that have never been quite cleared up…. (don't know if this would reflect upon the validity of the scholarship of the son or of his Galileo Retraction Moment)… he for instance claimed Primo Levi had called him two days prior to his suicide. It never has been fully confirmed if it was suicide, no note, no intention, why does one go to pay a bill at the post office the day they decide to end it all … wait… being italian that might actually BE a cause that would justify contemplating suicide! At any rate, Toaff claims he spoke with him. This is confirmed only by him but does not make sense: Levi was not Roman, but Turinese. Levi was not relgious, nor did he have ties with Religious leaders, and most importantly, Toaff is orthodox so why would he respond to a telephone call on the Sabbath?
He is now living in Israel and very old, but getting the facts on this matter would be a worthy cause also towards establishing truth surrounding the mysterious death of Primo Levi, one of the major heroes of my lifetime and someone I am honoured to have translated for the plaques in the two museums in Milan that commemorate the Italian victims of Nazi crimes.
@Mary Rizzo –
Very interesting about Rabbi Toaff and Primo Levi. I had not been aware of this.
I don't want to take this too far away from the intent of Mr. Sabbah's posting. The "N" word is a tough one. I taught my two daughters that they could never use that word no matter who else used it or even if a Black person sort of gave either of them a "pass." Black Americans have been using the word freely (amd defiantly, I think) in the presence of non Blacks for a couple of decades now. I once had an African American co worker who (in playfulness and with affection) would call me that very word. The way I see it now, African Americans have grabbed the word out of white people's hands where it had served as a weapon. Given all the history of the word and the history of African Americans whites still ought not use it and respect that it's an "in" thing for Blacks, that's my opinion anyhow. As for the K word, American Jews use it among each themselves. Many of them perceive that their history is similar to African Americans but that's way off the mark. Still, I agree, it's not a word I would use, no matter how lowlife the Jew in question might be.
@Eugene Weixel –
hi eugene!
i got some of the details wrong, but not the sense of them: check this out: http://bostonreview.net/BR24.3/gambetta.html
especially this excerpt:
The mystery surrounding Levi's death does not end here. Two years ago, on the tenth anniversary of his death, Elio Toaff, the Chief Rabbi of Rome, made a startling disclosure. At a commemorative gathering at a high school in Rome, he revealed that Levi called him on the telephone "ten minutes before" he died. Levi sounded distressed. He did not tell the Rabbi he was about to kill himself, and the Rabbi, much to his chagrin, did not guess what was about to happen. The Rabbi recollects that Levi said: "I can't go on with this life. My mother is ill with cancer and every time I look at her face I remember the faces of those men stretched on the benches at Auschwitz." When I interviewed Toaff in Rome in June 1998, he confirmed the version of the event as reported by the Italian press, including the timing of the call. He also told me that out of discretion he had never spoken about that episode to anyone before, not even privately. He said he decided on impulse to reveal it during the anniversary gathering out of love of truth: "too many preposterous things were being said." His response was prompted by someone in the audience who mentioned the doubts voiced by Levi Montalcini and Mendel about why Levi should have chosen such a messy way to commit suicide given that he had better alternatives. "The mind of a suicide can be in a state which is not analyzable by ordinary criteria," Toaff told me.
This is the first strong circumstantial evidence that Levi's death might, after all, have been correctly ruled suicide. What the Rabbi says Levi told him, moreover, shows that the memories of Auschwitz were indeed haunting him at the very end.
But how reliable is this evidence? Now in his eighties, Toaff appears to be lucid and energetic. Still, the circumstances surrounding that telephone call are not very clear. Levi was not religious. It seems odd that he should approach the Rabbi. Rita Levi Montalcini, who persists in her doubts about the suicide, retorted that she spoke with Levi on the telephone the night before and that he sounded in good spirits. Giovanni Tesio, who also spoke with Levi the day before, confirmed to me that he had the same impression. Furthermore, Toaff told me that he did not know Levi and had never met or spoken with him before that day.
So we need to perform a difficult leap of imagination. We have to imagine that Levi, sometime after his walk when he posted the letter to Camon and around the time he got his mail from the concierge, managed to find not just the motive and the energy to call the Rabbi, but also his phone number. The Rabbi's home phone number is not listed in the Rome directory. Still, it is not implausible to think he had Toaff's number already for some reason, or that he managed to find him at the synagogue. Even so, we must still stretch our imagination. We have to imagine that Levi brought himself to confide his deepest sorrows to the Rabbi by phone, in a relatively short time, though he had never met or spoken to him before.
The really perplexing fact, however, is the day of the telephone call. Levi died on a Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, on which observant Jews are not supposed to use any technical equipment: they cannot cook or even turn on the light, let alone make or receive phone calls.
This apparent inconsistency had not occurred to me before I met Toaff (David Mendel noted it when we reviewed the facts together). I therefore wrote to the Rabbi asking for clarification. The Rabbi did not reply. I then contacted three Italian sources knowledgeable in these matters to try and establish whether it was conceivable for the Rabbi to answer the phone on a Saturday. All three sources, two of them close to the Rabbi's family, categorically excluded this possibility.
Maybe the Rabbi remembers the timing incorrectly. Maybe Levi called on the Friday before sunset or even the week before. It is unusual, however, for one's memory to make that kind of mistake. One can easily fail to recollect accurately the irrelevant aspects of a single memorable event. I clearly remember that I fell down for a quarter of a mile on an icy slope while ski mountaineering and nearly killed myself, but I do not now remember the day it was or even the year. But suppose this accident happened to me the day before my wedding. I would then indeed clearly remember both that the two events were temporally associated and how closely. The Rabbi's recollection belongs to the latter category: it is very precise and establishes an association between two memorable events, the unexpected call of a famous man and the death of the same man a few minutes later. So the Rabbi's revelation remains a puzzle. Whatever its solution, the evidence provided by Rabbi Toaff is hardly as decisive as it may initially have seemed.
Interestingly, it’s the same ADL, which defended the Zionist Jew Flemming Rose, editor of Danish daily Jyllands-Posten – for his “freedom of press” rights for publishing several cartoons insulting the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) in 2005.
Garry Beekman Trudeau is a distant relative of my favorite Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau (d. 2000)…….
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/anti-semite-comic-strip/
They are starting to act in a panicky and desperate way — ADL is now attacking a popular cartoonist, Garry Trudeau, for anti-semitism. They are really desperate, deeply in the shitz and making a very, very big mistake when they mess with or go after Gary Trudeau.
Gary Trudeau is more, much more than just a popular American Cartoonist. He is the King of American political and diplomatic satire! An icon of the '70's Political Protest Movement!
His strip is probably the most untouchable political satire in the world, and if they challenge him he will rip their you know what.
He is an untouchable, and he carries a very sharp and pointed pen!
It will be interesting to see what kind of avatar he comes up with to represent the new President.
Yes, they screw with him, they are definitely self-destructive and suicidal! He will have them, the ADL, the JDL and AIPAC and the entire Israeli Administration and Knesset for breakfast!.
Look for some new characters to appear. Fat guys with swarthy Eastern European visage, and big attractive hooked noses!
Debbie
Is there any doubt that, if it had appeared in a non-Jewish publication, the ADL would have denounced "How To Cook A Gentile" as viciously "anti-semitic"?
But I doubt that any gentiles are going to lose sleep over it, fearing that some Jews are going to have them for dinner. If such a cartoon were the product of a West Bank settlement, though, it might not be funny, especially to their Palestinian neighbors.
As it is, I found some parts of it funny, especially when one of the characters, in the middle of this gory supposed television show, responds to a sexual joke from the other by saying, "Ira, enough of these off-color jokes. This is a family show."
I also laughed hysterically at a joke posted as a reader comment on the cartoon at the Heeb Magazine web site:
> What’s the difference between a Jew and a Pizza?
> A pizza doesn’t scream when you put it in the oven!
The person posting this joke followed it with the lines:
> HA HA HA!
> So funny!
the intended point apparently being that it wasn't funny and neither was the cartoon. But I guess that growing up Jewish contributed to my "sick" sense of humor.
Oh, and I like the Trudeau cartoon, but I didn't laugh at it.
Haitham – I rather think your article is heavy-handed.
The Heeb cartoon is clearly satire. One has to be a very paranoid gentile to see it as anything else. I speak as a so-called 'gentile' myself. I can of course, appreciate that Jewish sadism means something different to a displaced Palestinian than it does to someone like myself, far away and not firectly affected by the Israeli State. Even so…
The joke about the Trudeau cartoon incident, IMO, is precisely that Abe Fxman's response is so pedantic and humourless. The distinction he drew between money-changer and money-lender strikes me as very funny. I also love the way he takes offense on behalf of Christians as well as Jews. What a jackass.
See http://sydwalker.info/blog/2009/06/16/abe-hates-jokes-about-whipping-boys/
I don't know anything about Heeb, but my own analysis, speaking as an Israeli (atheist, as such not a jew, out of clear understanding of the fact that it's just a religion and not DNA), who's grown up on a strict zionist diet (and is starving for some huminism) is that it is satire, and it's very telling of the Zionist paranoia. It's actually clever satire, well made and brutally honest. The only problem is that it's bringing up long-gone ghosts from 1939, as usual.