Echos of the Past
Below is a cartoon by Ed Hall. As you can see, it accompanies a piece by the authors of the current version of The
Protocols of the Elders of Zion,
Walt and
Mearsheimer.

Check out the next cartoon.

It's a Nazi propaganda cartoon from a magazine called Die Brennessel. The caption, as stated
here, says,
"A Scene from the 'Good Old Days.'" The theme is freedom of the press. This supposedly depicts the situation before 1933, when the Nazis claimed the Jews controlled the German press. (2 January 1934)
I don't want to call Ed Hall or the L.A. Times Nazis or Jew haters. There is enough name calling these days. And I'm sure that neither the Times or Mr. Hall think of themselves as Jew haters. I don't even know if they would admit to the current dodge of modern anti-Semites who claim to have nothing against the Jews but instead refer to themselves as "anti-Zionist". I do know that there is a frightening similarity in the two cartoons, and an equally frightening willingness on the part of major American newspapers to give editorial space to people with opinions that ten years ago were only openly spewed by neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other unsavory characters. They call it free speech, but as we've seen it only works in one direction. I'd like to see the same scrutiny applied to CAIR, The Muslim Brotherhood, and Saudi Arabia.
Labels: anti-semitism, Ed Hall, L A Times, Mearsheimer and Walt
The Jr. Protocols
I've read portions of the deservedly maligned paper by Mearsheimer and Walt. I've also read some of the critiques by actual scholars who have demonstrated in so many ways that is just another anti-semitic hit piece.
In Context presents quotes from the actual Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the new Protocols Jr. by David Duke's new favorite "think tank", Mearsheimer and Walt. The similarity is quite remarkable and quite predictable. Here's one comparison out of many:
The Israel Lobby’s power flows from its unmatched ability to play this game of interest group politics. In its basic operations, it is no different from interest groups like the Farm Lobby, steel and textile workers, and other ethnic lobbies. What sets the Israel Lobby apart is its extraordinary effectiveness.
-- "The Israel Lobby, " p. 16
Moreover, the art of directing masses and individuals by means of cleverly manipulated theory and verbiage, by regulations of life in common and all sorts of other quirks, in all which the GOYIM understand nothing, belongs likewise to the specialists of our administrative brain. Reared on analysis, observation, on delicacies of fine calculation, in this species of skill we have no rivals, any more than we have either in the drawing up of plans of political actions and solidarity.
-- Protocol 5, Paragraph 4
I first linked to this post by way of
Little Green Footballs.Labels: Mearsheimer and Walt, Protocols of the Elders of Zion