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Remember that thread I did about Owen Jones& #39; Spanish book cover? You may recall there was some nitpicking about a translated caption as it was not a primary source. I now have a hard copy of one of the artist& #39;s racist cartoons. You be the judge.
Galantara was very much in his prime the year that was published, but posed no objection to the caption: "Jewish capitalism wages a terrible relentless war every hour of every day". He had 2 cartoons in this edition. "Sometimes it takes a little blood to water the gold plant."
Alongside several other charming depictions of mere & #39;fatcats& #39;, as Owen called them, by other cartoonists. This one on an adjacent page is just called "Jewish freedom".
"The Jew: balances all."
"We somtimes pacify... with Jewish gold"
"The Saviours"
These were all in the edition no. 325 of the anarcho-socialist weekly L& #39;Assiette au Beurre, published in 1912. Galantara lived till 1937.
You& #39;ll hear more nitpicking about whether or not Galantara approved of the caption (I& #39;ve seen no evidence that he objected to it), but you& #39;ll need to also overlook that L& #39;Assiette au Beurre was publishing images like these for years before Gala submitted his work for publication.
And you& #39;ll also have to overlook that it wasn& #39;t just Jews who Gala depicted in the most grotesque and racist fashion.
Will Owen ever concede that his cover art drew on antisemitic themes, was labelled & #39;antisemitism& #39; by the agency his publisher procured it from, drawn as it was by a racist cartoonist, who freely published in antisemitic mags for the purposes of inciting hatred against Jews?
Will he ask himself how lazy stereotypes of & #39;fatcats& #39;, bankers, and & #39;the establishment& #39; happen to draw from the same antisemitic palette? Will he apologise for attacking @EtanSmallman and defending this? Will he commit to learning from & listening to mainstream Jews?
I won& #39;t hold my breath.
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