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07/25/2008: "The U.S. Presidential Candidates: Cartoons in the Arab Media"

As part of ADL's ongoing monitoring of anti-Semitism in the Arab and Muslim media, this report documents recent cartoons on the theme of the U.S. presidential election campaign.

The American elections have provided an excuse for the Arab media to promulgate perverse, bigoted and age-old conspiracy theories that portray Israelis and Jews as controlling the candidates. Appearing in Arab and Muslim newspapers published in the Middle East and the Gulf countries, the cartoons and caricatures focus on four main themes which reflect a deeply rooted sentiment in the Arab world:

The close relationship between America and Israel and/or the Jews;
The influence of the Jewish lobby on American decision makers;
Jewish control of the Western media and economics;
The American administration's unwavering desire to satisfy Israel and American Jews.

[ Goodness gracious! Why would they have such a perception?! Those oxymoronic anti-semitic Arabs. ]

http://www.adl.org/main_Arab_World/as_cartoons_candidates.htm