Well, yeah, the Goya is
Saturno devorando a su hijo, and yes, Saturn has absolutely nothing to do with Jewish mythology, anti- or otherwise. Saturn is the Roman equivalent to the Greek's Cronus. That is
exactly why Dave Brown chose it upon which to base the Sharon cartoon. Nihm directly quoted Brown,
Quote:My cartoon was intended as a caricature of a specific person, Sharon, in the guise of a figure from classical myth who, I hoped, couldn't be farther from any Jewish stereotype.
How is the caricature anti-Semitic if it has nothing to do with Semitism?
He also says,
Quote:I also omitted certain things. I might have drawn Israeli insignia on the tank or helicopter to set the scene. But not only did I have no intention of being anti-Semitic; I had no desire to make an anti-Israel comment. At a time when the Israeli Labour party was offering the choice of a settlement, I sought only to target a man and a party I consider to be actively working against peace.
If anything, he showed a lack of sensitivity to how this would hurt the sensibilities of Jews and Judeophiles seeing as how this portrayal of Sharon would smack of the anti-Semitic blood-libel, especially after its resurgence through the Arab media. This lack of sensitivity is akin to the posting of the black-face site on this very thread. Black-face is extremely derogative and offensive, and some were peeved by it. Was it posted with racist intent?
To me, that sounds more like a brain fart than actual anti-semitism.
