Australian cartoonist causes furore across the U.S.
Australian cartoonist Pat Oliphant has published a cartoon depicting a goose-stepping, sword-brandishing figure wheeling a Star of David with shark’s teeth towards a diminished, cowering figure named “Gaza”.
The offending cartoon
The cartoon, published by the Washington Post and New York Times but syndicated throughout the U.S., has invoked a furious response from the Anti-Defamation League’s Abraham Foxman who labelled it “hideously antisemitic”.
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Los Angeles said the cartoon was meant to demonise Israel.
A 1967 Pulitzter Prize winner, Oliphant has gone to ground and has not responded to media requests for a comment or the ADL crtisicism.
He was in hot water two months ago when he created a cartoon seen by critics as the caricature of a violent chimpanzee shot dead by police bearing a resemblance to President Obama.
Oliphant moved from Australia to the United States in 1964.
