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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1990

THE JEWISH NEWS

Pat Oliphant's Cartoon
Angers Supporters Of Israel

ARTHUR J. MAGIDA

Special to The Jewish News

M

any Jews were
offended by a car-
toon last month by
syndicated cartoonist Pat
Oliphant depicting Israel as
an overfed, bejewelled ma-
tron asking Uncle Sam not
to "waste money on
freeloaders" — the now-
democraticizing nations of
eastern Europe.
The cartoons of Oliphant,
who received a 1967 Pulitzer
for editorial cartoons, are
syndicated by the Universal
Press Syndicate to 430
newspapers in the United
States.
In addition to portraying
Israel as a stereotype, the
cartoon misrepresents
Israel's attitude toward U.S.
aid to eastern Europe, accor-
ding to Albert Chernin, ex-
ecutive vice chairman of the
National Jewish Commun-
ity Relations Advisory
Council.
Chernin said that Israel is

The offending Oliphant.

"clearly" not opposed to
American aid to eastern
Europe.
David Goldstein, executive
director of the Jewish
Community Relations Bu-
reau of Greater Kansas City,
urged people to write to
Oliphant about "the
outrageous content of the
cartoon."
Even James Scott, edito-
rial page editor of the Kan-
sas City Star, which ran the
cartoon on Jan. 23, called it

"the most vicious, insidious
thing I've ever seen in a
newspaper of general cir-
culation in the United
States. It looks like the Nazi
stereotype of Jews. I regret
running it."
Scott told the Kansas City
Jewish Chronicle that he
had been "in a hurry" when
initially looking at the car-
toon and that the sterotype
"hadn't registered" on him
when he approved it for
publication.

Bitter Feud Over
Polish Cardinal

Name-calling from two
prominent U.S. Jews filled
the pages of the New York
Jewish Week last month.
Henry Siegman, executive
director of the American
Jewish Congress, called a
lawsuit against Poland's
Jozef Cardinal Glemp "a
reckless provocation." Har-
vard law professor Alan
Dershowitz, who has filed
the suit on behalf of Rabbi
Avraham Weiss, said
Siegman had displayed "a
failure of leadership" and
"sycophantic behavior" by
having gone to Glemp "hat
in hand and told him what
he wanted to hear."
The comments appeared in
columns that the Jewish
Week had asked Siegman
and Dershowitz to write ex-
plaining their opposing
views on relating to the
Polish cardinal. Cardinal
Glemp had offended Jews
around the world last
summer when he made
statements widely con-
sidered to be a classic, primi-
tive form of anti-Semitism
when refuting Jews'
demands that a Carmelite
convent be removed from the
grounds of Auschwitz. Part-
ly spurring Glemp to make
these statements had been

an attempt by a small group
of Jews to enter the convent.
They had been led by Rabbi
Weiss, who is now suing
Glemp for alleging that his
group had intended to kill
the nuns.
In a meeting with Glemp
in early December, wrote

Cardinal Glemp:
Promoting understanding.
Siegman, the cardinal said
the agreement to move the
convent was "irreversible"
and would be honored.
Glemp also said he would
"now concentrate" his
efforts on promoting Jewish-
Catholic understanding.

These would include conven-
ing in Lublin a conference
early this year on Judaism
and Polish Jewish history
for local parish priests, and
accelerating a program that
sends parish priests to the
U.S. to participate in semi-
nars on Jews and Judaism.
Dershowitz compared the
American Jewish Congress
leaders who had met with
Glemp with the timid Jews
in Hitler's Germany.
"Why this offensive
allegation?" asked Siegman,
calling Rabbi Weiss' break-
in of the Auschwitz convent
"loose, cannon-like
behavior." The Dershowitz-
Weiss suit, predicted
Siegman, will cause
"immeasureable harm to
Jewish and Israeli interests
in Poland" and is "grossly
insenstive to the role of the
Catholic Church and its
primate in the national life
of Poland."
Rabbi Weiss's entry to the
convent grounds, wrote
Siegman, "scandalized the
sensibilities of every Pole,
including the Jewish
community's best friends in
the country. It played into
the hands of those who
sought to prevent the reloca-
tion of the convent."

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