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The Stab-In-The-Back Legend Illustrated

The “Dagger-Stab-In-The-Back” was a popular legend in post-World War I Germany that attributed Germany’s military losses to sabotage by Jews and other minorities living in the country.

Nasser Kicking the Jews into the Sea

 

A cartoon published in Lebanese newspaper Al-Farida just before the 1967 Six-Day War depicts Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser kicking a Jew off a cliff (and presumably into the sea, as he promised to do to Israeli Jews at the time). Egypt is supported by the armies of Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.

With his bowler hat, devilish beard and enormous nose, the depiction of the Jewish figure is clearly based on European anti-Semitic imagery rather than traditional Arabic representation. It effectively shows the adoption of imported anti-Semitism in the Arab World.

Cartoon from Nazi newspaper

 

This cartoon, depicting the Jew as a spider sucking the blood out of Germans, is taken from the Nazi Der Sturmer magazine. Active beginning from 1923 until the Nazi Germany's demise in 1945, the tabloid was one of the main tools of Nazi propoganda.

The Dreyfus Affair

The cartoon above is a caricature of Alfred Dreyfus printed in 1906, in France.