Monday, December 1, 2003
Richard Ingrams' favorite columnist, Barbara Amiel discusses that particular brand of modern English anti-Semitism.
Telegraph | Opinion | They yearn for the good old days of genteel anti-Semitism
...Up-to-date anti-Semitism awards the British cartoon-of-the-year prize to an illustration from the Independent that could happily have graced the pages of Der Sturmer: a vicious caricature of the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, naked, eating a Palestinian infant. One cannot imagine a British newspaper running a similar caricature of Yasser Arafat or, indeed, his supporter, European Commission president Romano Prodi, even though their money funds some of today's most murderous terrorists...