I don't think these cartoons, as described, are anti-Semitic at all. Unless, of course, one is to agree with the author that all criticisms of the politics of the state of Israel, including its brutality in occupied territories, extra-judicial assassinations, and oppression of the Palestinians is to be considered "anti-Semitism".
In April 2002, the Italian quality daily La Stampa published a cartoon about the IDF's siege on the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. It showed an Israeli tank turning on the infant Jesus, who asks: "Surely they don't want to kill me again?"
In the same month the Greek daily Ethnos, close to the Socialist Party, depicted two IDF soldiers (with stars of David on their helmets) dressed as Nazis stabbing helpless Arabs. The caption: "Do not feel guilty, my brother. We were not in Auschwitz and Dachau to suffer, but to learn." |
