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Spanish magazine may face legal action over ‘antisemitic’ cartoons

February 19, 2016 15:54
The magazine showed a Torah wrapped in scrotum skin

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Josh Jackman,

Josh Jackman

1 min read

A prominent Jewish community in Spain is considering taking legal action against a satirical magazine which printed allegedly antisemitic and anti-Israel cartoons.

The Jewish Community of Madrid took offence at the latest issue of the Barcelona-based El Jueves publication, which showed an Israeli soldier urinating on a kaffiyeh-wearing Arab man and accused Jerusalem’s Israel Museum of keeping a Torah wrapped in scrotum skin.

The edition, which also featured Jews with hooked noses, depicted the IDF soldier explaining to his victim: “You don't understand. My parents were in a concentration camp.”

Below the frame is the caption: “Israel is like a child who saw his father hit his mother, and now has grown up hit to his wife.”

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