French pol’s apology: Showing Israelis killing Disney toons was misunderstanding

[Mosby]

A French senator apologized for any misunderstandings connected to her praise for a campaign featuring fake pictures of Israeli leaders murdering Disney cartoon characters.

Nathalie Goulet of the Union of Democrats and Independents party made the endorsement on Twitter earlier this week, Europe1.fr reported, in posting on her account the images of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bludgeoning a dying Pinocchio. Other pictures showed Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni stabbing Cinderella and former Israeli President Shimon Peres choking Peter Pan.

“Very powerful campaign against children mass murder,” Goulet wrote about the pictures.

Mehdi Thomas Allal, who heads the anti-discrimination department of the human rights group Terra Nova, accused Goulet of “presenting Jews as killers of children, echoing many such caricatures in the period before World War II” in an Op-Ed he wrote for the online edition of the Le Nouvel Observateur weekly. Allal wrote that Goulet should be prosecuted for her action, which he qualified as “a slip toward anti-Semitism.”

http://www.jewishaz.com/us_worldnews/world/french-pol-s-apology-showing-israelis-killing-disney-toons-was/article_2e3209b4-1e60-11e4-86e2-001a4bcf6878.html

[BillZBubb]

1. Once again attacking Israeli leaders is equated with anti-Semitism.

That's disgusting. And this guy calling for prosecution is just as loony as the Muslim's who want to harm cartoonists who "mock" Islam.

[oberliner]

3. Criticizing Obama is not racism

However, cartoons meant attack his policies that depict him in a certain way do occasionally veer into racism. Would you agree?

If so, isn't it possible for the same thing to happen here?

[hifiguy]

2. Bibi gonna go after Aladdin and Jasmine next?

And how many times does it have to be pounded through peoples' thick skulls that criticizing the Netanyahu government is NOT criticizing Judaism or the Jewish people.