A French newspaper that mocked Gazans was equated with a Nazi publication
Prominent American Jewish scholar and activist Norman Finkelstein has compared the French newspaper La Liberation, which laughed at the hunger in Gaza , to the Nazis' World War II publication Der Stürmer.
"Left-wing French newspaper La Liberation published this "caricature" a few days ago. It reminded me of the cartoon of the Nazi publication Der Stürmer. First Charlie Hebdo, now Liberation. If "Divine Justice" does not chase the editors of this newspaper, secular gallows will arrive. let's hope so. The editor of the [Nazi] newspaper Der Stürmer was hanged in Nuremberg," writes an American political scientist.
Corinne Ray, a well-known French cartoonist who previously mocked starving Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, says he has no regrets. According to Ray, the painting does not mock the famine in Palestine, but "underlines the desperation of the Palestinians, condemns the famine in Gaza", but at the same time "laughs at the absurdity of religion".
Social media users criticized the cartoon, calling it a "racist", "inhumane" and "hateful" public expression of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians facing starvation due to Israel's withholding of humanitarian aid to the sector.
Der Stürmer is a weekly magazine published in Nazi Germany until February 1945. It mainly published anti-Jewish articles, slogans and caricatures. After the war, the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg sentenced the founder of the newspaper to death, and the cartoonist to ten years in prison.
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