UC Berkeley student paper publishes anti-Semitic caricature

Posted: 10/24/2017 1:24:00 PM
Author: David Rosenberg
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UC Berkeley student paper publishes anti-Semitic caricature
Student newspaper publishes cartoon eerily reminiscent of anti-Semitic caricatures in Nazi Germany and Arab world.
by David Rosenberg

The student newspaper at the University of California at Berkeley has come under fire for an cartoon it published last week, one that critics say draws from anti-Semitic motifs used by Nazi-era propaganda.

The cartoon was published by The Daily Californian earlier this month, just days before jurist and former Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz spoke on campus in a lecture titled “The Liberal Case for Israel”.

Dershowitz had previously threatened to sue the school for effectively barring him and other pro-Israel speakers by requiring an eight-week-notice for “high visibility” individuals – a requirement Dershowitz claimed was imposed selectively against people holding certain viewpoints.

"If you are high visibility, you have to give eight weeks [notice before being allowed to speak]," Dershowitz told Fox News. "But if a department at the university invites anti-Israel speakers, they don't have to go through an eight-week waiting period."
In response to Dershowitz’s plans to speak on campus, The Daily Californian published an editorial cartoon portraying Dershowitz as a bulbous, parasite-like creature hiding behind a board bearing the title of his lecture.

Behind the positive image of Israel presented on the board, Dershowitz can be seen crushing an Arab waving a Palestine Liberation Organization flag, and holding up an IDF soldier and slain Arab civilian dripping with blood.

Dershowitz noted a day after his lecture that a flyer posted in the UC Berkeley Law School bearing his image had been defaced with a swastika.