Alternative News & Information: Muslim cartoon provokes fury among UK Jews

An anti-Semitic cartoon in a Muslim paper, which depicts Israel's acting Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, as a hook-nosed figure wearing a giant Star of David, last night drew protests from MPs and Jewish groups. For days, Muslims across the world have been protesting about European newspapers that published drawings showing the Prophet Mohamed. One MP accused the editors of hypocrisy. Yesterday a newspaper published cartoons that Jewish groups say they find offensive, and US generals protested about a cartoon in the Washington Post. It showed Donald Rumsfeld, the Defense Secretary, beside a limbless soldier, but the generals said, on behalf of the normally robust Mr Rumsfeld, that the drawing was "tasteless". siehe auch: The other cartoons. SOME of these cartoon portrayals of Jews in the Arab press could have come straight from Joseph Goebbels' propaganda machine in Nazi Germany. But they are not to be found on obscure websites run by fanatics, but in the mainstream newspapers of the Arab world