The Israeli embassy to Canada has declared that “antisemitism in Canada is off the chart,” and condemned Le Presse newspaper for posting a “vile” caricature of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Shame on @LP_LaPresse for posting this vile Caricature. The anti-Semitism in Canada is off the chart. pic.twitter.com/x9GNqRVAfA
— Israel in Canada (@IsraelinCanada) March 20, 2024
The appalling depiction of Netanyahu prompted Conservative Senator Leo Housakos to respond:
While Mr. Netanyahu, as with any politician, is not above criticism, this kind of antisemitic trope is reminiscent of the 1930s.
Antisemitism in Canada has been escalating to alarming proportions, including highly questionable actions by the federal government. See HERE and HERE.
After a barrage of criticism about the mocking caricature of Netanyahu — which was deemed stereotypical and antisemitic — La Presse issued an apology and removed the caricature.
“Canadian newspaper posts ‘antisemitic’ caricature of vampire Netanyahu”, by Michael Starr, The Jerusalem Post, March 20, 2024:
“Shame on La Presse for posting this vile caricature,” said the Israeli embassy to Canada. “The antisemitism in Canada is off the chart.”
A caricature of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the vampire in the movie Nosferatu was published by French-Canadian newspaper La Presse on Wednesday, resulting in accusations of antisemitism and a retraction by the Montreal outlet.
“Nosfenyahou, on the way to Rafah,” placed the face of Netanyahu on the body of the blood-sucking Count Orlok in one of the 1922 horror movie’s famous stills.
“Shame on La Presse for posting this vile caricature,” said the Israeli embassy to Canada. “The antisemitism in Canada is off the chart.”…..
Kasahub says
As a citzen of the great and beautyful city Toronto , I am dismayed and oppalled by what Islam in the name of allah for the cause of palestine is doing. The follower of mohammed are detrmind to bring the city into unrecoverable economic, social and poletical crisis. They follow the way of isis and want everything destroyed unless all submit. You are mad about the pictue of the PM, what do you expect! Didnt you hear the head of the police statement! They won’t stop at all unless we all submit, the dogs and the pigs-Jews and Christians.
Jaymo says
Learn to spell please.
Greyhound Fancier says
It may well be that English is not the mother tongue of the poster.
violet says
Message clear. I see the hate fostered in our universities against western culture, Jews, white people and anything else that made ours the only part of the world people flock to.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
It’s not enough to apologize. The cartoonist should now be banned from La Presse and, indeed, from any other respectable outlet. So should any members of La Presse’s staff who approved the cartoon for publication.
Cynthia says
Canadian universities have been vile, anti Semitic factories for 50 years and now openly anti Israel. This is no different than pre Nazi Germany. Those who say nothing are complicit. All the west will soon go down. First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people – the religion of peace is fond of saying.
Simba says
Yes , the Bible seems to indicate that also ..
dumbledoresarmy says
The cartoon was a gross example of reversal of reality. It SHOULD have given the vampire a turban and a scimitar or a machete and captioned it ‘JIhad, en route to the Dar Al Harb”.
THAT would have been completely accurate, given the bloodbath that the mohammedans indulged in, in the Jewish farming villages of southern Israel, and the appalling report from India re. a mohammedan who murdered and mutilated two little Hindu children and drank their blood (!), and the testimony of John Roy Carlson who in 1948 while undercover posing as a Nazi sympathiser was told by a rabid jihadi that said jihadi intended to slit the throat of a Jew **and drink the blood** and wished Carlson, a journalist with a camera, to photograph this for him. It is Mohammedans who rejoice in creating rivers, oceans of blood, ritually slaughtering non-Muslims by the hundreds, thousands, millions upon millions.
I’ll quote the exact paragraph from Carlson’s book, Cairo to Damascus. “I want you to come with me the next time we fight the Yahood. When I catch a Jew alive I want you to be with me – with your camera.” “Why do you want me with my camera”, I casked curiously. “I want you to take one picture of me holding the living Jew by the throat. I want you to take another picture while I stab the Jew in the neck, in the face, in the heart, in his belly.. with this knife!” Ali whipped out a vicious blade. “After I have killed the Jew I want you to photograph me drinking his blood.”
“While it is still warm, I suppose.”
“Yes, while it is running warm from his body”, Ali affirmed.” END QUOTE. Cairo to Damascus, chapter 12: “With the Arabs in Jerusalem”.
(Incidentally, this – literally – bloodthirsty jihadi Ali was not a ‘palestinian’ Arab; he was Egyptian Arab, born and brought up in a Cairo slum.)