• arrow74@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    You need the recent context from the news. This is clearly referring to a piece ran by an Italian newspaper that photographed a Israeli “settler” or soldier (unclear) in the westbank.

    Not the original article but here:

    https://www.chosun.com/english/world-en/2026/04/15/JLFWIAKWU5H2XCY77YP4EETBHQ/

    As you can see the hairstyle and yarmulke are spot on and accurate to real world events.

    The teeth are exaggerated both to characterize the image, as lets admit that’s not a very usual grin, and to emulate Cleetus a Simpsons character.

    https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Cletus_Spuckler

    That is why the teeth are messed up. The use of Cleetus is intentional to point out how fucking backwards Israeli is in its “settlement” policies.

    So yeah in the context of current events this is not a “minstrel poster”.

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      2 months ago

      Thank you, that massively helps. Without this context it appears to be a generalization, not one specific individual.

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        2 months ago

        The antisemites must be thrilled that this specific individual is giving them license to dust off their old racist caricatures.

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          2 months ago

          Maybe the knesset shouldn’t have built the torment nexus from basically every anti-semitic propaganda piece of the twentieth century?

        • imagine being so ugly that the zionists are malding about how your face is a racist caricature. Like no one is posting happy merchant as a response to this, you’re just overly sensitive.

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        2 months ago

        “The man in the photo mimicked the sound of herding sheep, treating Palestinians like his livestock.”

        Per the photographer

        Fellas is it anti-semetism to do journalism?

      • imagine being so ugly that the zionists are malding about how your face is a racist caricature. No one is posting happy merchant as a response to this, you’re just overly sensitive.