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:

Woman: "How can Israel violate with total impunity all moral and international laws?"

Religious Jew: "It costs us a great deal of money"

This cartoon makes the allegation that Jews attack anyone they see as remotely critical of them, and employs a wealth of anti-Semitic stereotypes to make its point.

Printed during World War II in the Belgium city of Kortrijk, this French language poster reads “Le complot juif contre l'Europe!” or “The Jewish conspiracy against Europe!”

Referring back to early Nazi propaganda, this cartoon implies that Jews, and the state of Israel, are exempt from international law. The bionic hand hints at mass destruction as justified by religion-- without regards to humanity. Similar ideas were spread in the 1938 German children’s book Der Giftpilz, which consistently described the Jews as devilish monsters who lie and cheat because their religious texts encouraged them to do so.

The cartoon above was featured in Quebec’s La Tribune. It depicts former Member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) and leader of the Action démocratique du Québec Mario Dumont with dollar signs in his eyes. His hands are extended toward two, hook-nosed, yarmulke wearing, Jews with side curls.  All are classic anti-Semitic depictions of Jews.

In the caption, Dumont tells the two men, “Soyez les bienvenus mes amis!”, or “Welcome my friends!”

Russian cartoon shows fast international spread of anti-Semitic rhetoric

This illustration, one of many by self-described “freelance artist and illustrator” David Dees, attempts to provide proof that Zyklon B gas was used to kill lice, not people, during the Holocaust.

This cartoon, featured on the openly anti-Semitic blog “Apostate III” illustrates a rabbi spray-painting a swastika on the wall of a synagogue.

This cartoon, by John Kloss, was published in the Sacramento News & Review in August 2006.

This cartoon was featured on the Spanish language website prenasural.org following a diplomatic trip by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to South America.

The cartoon above by Michael Ramirez was featured in the Los Angeles Times on October 6, 2000.

“For starters, Palestine belongs to the Palestinians, not the Israelis, the Hebrew myths are false, and abusing the weak is disgusting."

Eleftherotypia, one of the most widely circulated newspapers in Greece, ran this cartoon following Israel's assassination of the leader of the Islamist terror organization Hamas, Sheikh Yassin, in 2004.