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As southern Israel was under rocket assault from Hamas-controlled Gaza, the Arab print media chose to publish some of the most hateful and incendiary anti-Semitic cartoons we have ever seen. These cartoons have one purpose - to stir up hatred of Jews and Israel. This must be stopped now.
ADL is sending a message of outrage to the ambassadors of the Arab countries whose newspapers publish these cartoons, letting them know we will not tolerate such hateful material. Add your signature to our letter below and let your voice be heard.
Read and sign our letter below:
Dear Mr. Ambassador: We are outraged at the horrific anti-Semitic editorial cartoons that have appeared over the past weeks in newspapers in your country. While we respect the media's right to free expression, the use of swastikas, blood-thirsty Nazi figures, classic anti-Semitic images and hateful references to the Holocaust in comparison to Israel cross the line into incitement. These outrageous cartoons vilifying Israel and portraying the Jewish state as an aggressor with genocidal ambitions are signs that the disease of anti-Semitism is infecting your society. We urge your government to publicly denounce these demonizing anti-Jewish caricatures immediately.
Arab media cannot be allowed to compare Israel's defense of its people against Hamas missiles with the deliberate killing of six million Jews during the Holocaust.
In ADL's decades of monitoring anti-Jewish editorial caricatures in the Arab press, this latest barrage of such staggeringly hateful, anti-Semitic images is among the worst we have ever seen.
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