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Carlos Latuff and a poorly concealed death threat on a Likud related web site.

Now guess what! I’m being threatened by Likud, a right wing party in Israel (former party of Sabra and Shatila butcher Ariel Sharon). In a page linked to Likud, my picture and some of my cartoons are shown. Along the same old name-calling (Nazi, anti-Semitic…) they say that “This Carlos should be ‘taken care of’ long time ago, in some way or another.”

If one can be bothered to sift through the Likud paranoia and ranting about the alleged Iranian world conspiracy against them and Latuff’s supposed role, this example of incitement to violence can be quite educational. Seeing as they have violence pretty well covered. All in all well worth remembering the next time someone is playing the “new anti-Semitism” card or whatnot, alleging that Israel never does anything wrong, is always victimized and all the usual drivel.

So here, have some Latuff cartoons. Controversial, funny and to the point.

Oh, and speaking of “new anti-Semitism” … American universities, true to form, are stepping up to investigate the topic. Norman Finkelstein quips …

Yale Offers First Ever Interdisciplinary Program in Jewish Navel-Contemplation: a triple-major in Judaic Studies, The Holocaust, and Anti-Semitism. Course offerings include: Why are the Ivy Leagues only 95% Jewish? Why didn’t Hollywood produce a film on the Holocaust last week? Why are the major media ignoring anti-Semitic graffiti in a Burundi parking lot?