[Guardian-UK] Ian Black - A display of "Cartoons and Extremism: Israel and the Jews in Arab and Western Media" is being shown at the Political Cartoon Gallery in London. While Egypt now accepts that Israel is a permanent fixture in the Middle East, some of the nastiest of these images come from Egypt, where hostility to Israel remains strong despite three decades of formal peace. In 2001, a cartoon in the state-owned Al-Ahram depicted exultant Israelis toasting peace with Palestinian blood - a recurrent theme with an ancient and blatantly racist echo. Cartoons from Iran are a recent addition to this grim gallery, and often feature Holocaust denial and the equation of Zionism with Nazism.
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