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[–] FishFace@piefed.social 88 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

Side view for more comparison:

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Top right: clearest case IMO. nose clearly bears no resemblance to his actual nose, whereas large hooked noses are the most common physical anti-semitic stereotype.

Top left: huge lips is another classic Nazi stereotype. Big ears arguably also, but he does have pretty big ears. The drooping eyes are a more subtle stereotype, but given that his actual eyes are narrow, not drooping, that's pretty suspicious IMO. Contrast top-right, which caricatures his real eyes.

Bottom left: fucking cursed, but I can't see anything anti-semitic

Bottom right: unhinged, but again not anti-semitic that I can see. There have been some depictions of jews as snakes, hence having forked tongues, but they're not super common that I can see so it's a bit of a stretch.

[–] onthesolivine@fedia.io 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

for the bottom right: the tongue is not forked on the actual ghost, they added that intentionally

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

OK but saying a politician is a snake or devil of some kind isn't unusual, so unless we can find some anti-semitic trope it's based on, I don't see it.

Ironically, the most common example I know if is Farage as depicted by Martin Rowson!

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[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

The four cartoon pics straight up look like they were drawn by A. Wyatt Mann.

Edit: THREE cartoons and a PHOTO MANIPULATION, thank you for correcting fuckin pedant, feels like I’m back on Reddit thanks

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[–] mirshafie 71 points 1 month ago (15 children)

What the actual fuck. Nevermind the antisemitism for a second, why are they even bashing politicians based on appearance in the first place? British media is unhinged.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 59 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It's a standard thing they do to anybody vaguely left wing.

If your election promise isn't to go visit all the billionaire media owners and personally suck them off, you're not going anywhere in the UK.

[–] mirshafie 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yeah if you published something like that in Sweden you'd get pitchforks shoved up your ass.

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[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It’s called caricature, and it’s been a central part of British political cartoons since the 18th Century. Politicians have been known to buy the originals to hang on their walls.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There have also been caricatures of Jews that were clearly antisemitic in intent, like some of the ones of Polansky.

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

Especially the top right one depicted here is just extremely blatantly antisemitic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Merchant

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[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 59 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Photo of the guy for comparison

[–] BruceAlrighty@lemmy.nz 31 points 1 month ago (22 children)

With teeth like that how could he be anything but British?

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[–] Danarchy@lemmy.nz 40 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Slimer is not Jewish tho for one thing ectocooler was NOT kosher and also when he was eating books in the library those were vellum manuscripts which as you know can only be eaten by Jewish ghosts under certain very specific

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (21 children)

This comment is so funny I had to check: The ingredients seem kosher BUT they never got Kosher certification so it's technically true.

And when I looked into similar packaged drinks, I found that almost none are kosher. Some of the same drinks ARE kosher when dispensed from a machine, though, so maybe it's a preservatives thing?

Some very solid evidence that Slimer was not Jewish would be his glizzy gobbling. He didn't ask the vendor if it was kosher, he just ate em.

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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because when they talk about "anti-semitism" they are actually talking about anti-ZIONISM. Since they are a vassal state of USrael.

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[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

The media is truly scared of politicians that can't be bought out

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 18 points 1 month ago

Damn this is 100% antisemititic coded.

[–] sanbdra@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Whatever someone’s politics are, these caricatures are gross and way over the line. Criticism doesn’t need to lean on antisemitic imagery.

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[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 10 points 1 month ago

OP is SO STUPID! NONE of these Cartoons showed someone PROTECTING Children from Bombs or PUSHING away Dogs that are RAPING Children! THOSE would be Anti Semetic!

-The BBC and Keir Starmer!

[–] Starduster75@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Here we see those whose ancestors were not cooked in an oven in living memory explaining how this isn't antisemitic, and how maybe people are too sensitive. Thanks for the perspective.

[–] trashboypro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

All of them are owned by a Jewish Zionist family by the way.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (14 children)

The Telegraph isn't.

Edit: also, I couldn't find any accounts of Murdoch being Jewish?

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[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 10 points 1 month ago

The rich are afraid of chad Polanski

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 1 month ago

Surprised they haven't drawn him with a rat's tail at this point.

[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Zionism does not belong to Judaism

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