Post #10

This piece of artwork is a stereotype on Jewish people. One aspects of this artwork being stereotypical is that the skull on the figure’s hat depicts the calamity many people believed the Jews caused. Every major plague since the Roman Empire many people have blamed Jews for the cause of it. Another calamity the skulls depict is the suffering of the German people. Yes the Germans did persecute the Jews, but many Germans after WW1 blamed the Jews for the loss say in that the German army was "stabbed in the back" by the Jewish men and women that served within their army. After the war the Germans signed the Treaty of Versailles, which established reduction upon the land, as the majority of Germany now were ruled by foreigners, though the German people was stilled the majority of the population. They even accused the Jews as being greedy capitalists that led Germany to fall into the Great Depression. The strip of paper on the figure says "Gaza". This goes directly in link to the skulls as today many the region of Gaza has seen many conflict between the Israelis (Jews) and the Palestinians. The war within that region is religious and territory purposes. Many anti- Semitists has blames the Jews for such hostility within that region ever since they signed 1949 Armistice Agreement, because of the presence there. So, to sum this cartoon is to spread the anti- Semitism propaganda, by promoting stereotypes that the Jews are the main reason for cataclysmic events in the past century. I feel though these followers are plain belligerent, because of their racists thoughts. These events cannot be blamed solely on the Jews, as many people anti- Semitism are the main causes in these events as they gave the world a reason to hate Jews and a reason for Hitler to rise to power. Thus, do the evil acts he did.