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The Independent and the “Jewish Lobby”

This is a cross-post by Mark Gardner from the new - and hugely welcome - blog of the Community Security Trust in the UK. While you’re there, see also Dave Rich’s inaugural post. “This blog will try to shed some light on the nature of contemporary antisemitism, but also on the good work being done to combat it,” he says.

An article in today’s Independent by the paper’s Washington correspondent, David Usborne, contains a stunning example of the conflation of Jews with Israel.

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Antisemitic Caricatures

Z Word readers living in or visiting London should get over to Bloomsbury, where the Political Cartoon Gallery is hosting an exhibition of antisemitic cartoons collected in Joel Kotek’s book, Cartoons and Extremism: Israel and the Jews in Arab and Western Media.

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