I first became acquainted with the hate-filled cartoons that emanate out of the Arab world when I purchased Arieh Stav's Peace: The Arabian Caricature: A Study of Anti-Semitic Imagery published in 1999.  The cartoons depict Jews as bloodthirsty ghouls and play upon the age-old blood libel canard.  Israelis are depicted as the reincarnation of Nazis.  Judaism is shown as a religion of degeneracy and America is shown as instigating and supporting the murderous Zionists. My next introduction to the cartoon media world was through Joel Kotek's Cartoons and Extremism: Israel and the Jews in Arab and Western Media, published in 2009. On its cover, Israeli soldiers are shown bayoneting Jesus in the Pieta scene and the Arab world writes "Do not kill him twice" as if Islamists care a fig about Christian symbolism. Arab cartoons revive the myth of Jews as ogres and vampires as Jews are accused of Palestinian infanticide.  The Arab-Muslim Judeophobia knows no...(Read Full Post)