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Is anti-Semitism in the eye of the beholder?

March 26, 2009 at 6:19PM
(John McIntyre/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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Editorial cartoonist Patrick Oliphant is known as an equal opportunity offender. But has his latest cartoon stepped over the line?

Simon Wiesenthal Center said "[t]he imagery in this cartoon mimics the venomous anti-Semitic propaganda of the Nazi and Soviet eras," the center said in a statement. "It is cartoons like this that inspired millions of people to hate in the 1930s and help set the stage for the Nazi genocide."

And the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman, called it "hideously anti-Semitic."

What's your take?

(John McIntyre/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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