Bilda, organizer of a Christian art exhibit in Sweden, has withdrawn a drawing on March 16, 2012 that Jewish groups said was anti-Semitic. The drawing by two Swedish pastors showed three rats — one of which carried a rifle — eating what appears to be a map of the Palestinian territories.

Images like this were posted on a Facebook page run by "Presbyterian peacemakers."

The Israel Palestine Mission Network-PCUSA Facebook page includes the cartoon of President Obama wearing weighty Jewish star earrings to suggest Jewish control of the American leader, a common theme on the site. A comment below the cartoon says "Our glorious leader has his head firmly lodged between AIPAC's buttcheeks."

A recent cartoon from Egypt shows how deeply the Nazi-inspired stereotype of the Jew as international conspirator has become ingrained into the local mentality.

B’nai B’rith International’s Office of United Nations Affairs revealed on January 26, 2012 that a Jordan-based Palestinian cartoonist named Imad Hajjaj, with an extensive and open record of trading in virulently anti-Semitic imagery, lists among his clients multiple U.N. agencies and major corporations.

Imad Hajjaj’s work demonstrates that anti-Israel sentiment in the Middle East is not merely characterized by sharp political differences, but instead mimics and is fueled by the most defamatory and dangerous of historical anti-Jewish themes. Nevertheless, the artist routinely publishes work in leading international Arab newspapers, including Al-Quds Al-Arabi, printed in London.

On April 1, 2011, Goldstone retracted his claim that it was Israeli government policy to deliberately target citizens, saying "If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document".

This retraction led to clearly anti-Semitic cartoons to be published in the Arab world. Above is a cartoon from the Palestinian paper, Filastin, April 5, 2011. The “Jew” cuts Goldstone’s tongue out.

Richard Falk was appointed on March 26, 2008 by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to a six-year term as a United Nations Special Rapporteur on "the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.

Mr. Falk published the above cartoon in his blog post of June 29, 2011. It depicts a dog urinating on a woman symbolizing justice, and devouring a dead body with blood and bones spewing out of its mouth. The dog is shown in a garment marked “USA” and wearing a Kipa, the Jewish religious head covering, which is marked by a Star of David. The cartoon is manifestly anti-Semitic and, before a worldwide Internet audience, incites hatred against Jews as well as against Americans.

In Richard Falk’s twitter on July 6, 2011, he replied to criticism by writing:

“Maybe I do not understand the cartoon, and if it offends in this way I have removed it from the blog. It may be in bad taste to an extent I had not earlier appreciated, but I certainly didn’t realize that it could be viewed as anti-Semitic, and still do not realize.”

Further Reading:

Richard Falk Apologizes to Animals, Mocks Jews

Liberal watchdog Media Matters revealed that Andrew Breitbart‘s Big Journalism website repeatedly published an altered version of an anti-Semitic Nazi-era propaganda cartoon.

The Nazi cartoon shows Jewish control over the American press. The caption translates roughly to “An information ministry for the United States. What’s the name? A new name for the same old thing.”

In the altered version, the Star of David is removed from the necktie, the caricatured hooked nose is straightened somewhat, and what appears to be a Barack Obama campaign logo has been added.

Breitbart responded that his blog had taken down the cartoon, prior to Media Matters‘ report, when editor Joel Pollak flagged the image as possibly offensive.

The above cartoon appeared in four Big Journalism blog posts, all since January 2011, and as Media Matters points out, it is an altered version of this cartoon from a 1942 issue of the German Magazine Kladderadatsch.

In Breitbart’s defense, his claim that the use was inadvertent is supported by the fact that the altered cartoon appeared on other blogs long before it ever showed up on Big Journalism, and several since.

Update: The offending cartoon has now been removed from all four Big Journalism posts.

This is a Geoff Olson cartoon titled “MARY AND JOSEPH, UPDATED” published in the Vancouver Courier on Dec. 23, 2011.

Geof Olson is a writer and artist who provides copy every week to the Courier for more than two decades. The Vancouver Courier is a Canadian semiweekly local newspaper published in Vancouver, British Columbia with a weekly distribution of 265,000.

One can simply say that the cartoon is wrong since Christians are not prevented from reaching Bethlehem on Christmas – or at any other time. They go through a gate in the security fence.

But is this cartoon anti-Semitic? Howard Rotberg of Vancouver sent a comment to the editor on its anti-Semitic aspect with the following words: