A Jew was once on US currency (maybe)

I came across this story from JTA in 1930:This would be the Standing Liberty quarter.Doris Doscher had played the biblical Eve in a 1918 silent film, "Birth of a Race."After she died in 1970, there were claims that another actress named Irene MacDowell was the model for the quarter and her role was hidden because her husband disapproved. Doscher's husband, who survived her,...

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Antisemitic cartoons in Falastin newspaper (Jaffa), Summer 1936

During the summer of 1936, a couple of months into the Arab revolt, the Jaffa-based Falastin newspaper started publishing on its front cover editorial cartoons that were shown in English as well as Arabic.Some were blatantly antisemitic.Here are a few:The Zionist crocodile to Palestine Arabs: "Don't be afraid!! I vill swallow you peacefully..."Note the accented "vill."Years...

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Calling all folksingers! "Pawns of the Middle East" needs a singer (and guitarist.)

Palestinian site Amad discusses a new song by anti-Israel folksinger David Rovics, celebrating British antisemites who broke into Elbit Systems and destroyed equipment.I hadn't heard that name in years. Back in 2010, I saw that Rovics had a series of really bad, barely sung songs that were rabidly anti-Israel and aligned with other "social justice" issues.While Rovics...

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Pure anti-semitism in the Palestine Chronicle

The Palestine Chronicle calls itself "an independent online newspaper that provides daily news, commentary, features, book reviews, photos, art, etc, on a variety of subjects. However, it's largely focused on Palestine, Israel, and the Middle East region." It is edited by Ramzy Baroud, a prolific anti-Israel writer that this blog has mentioned before. But it boasts an honorary editorial board that includes Hanan Ashrawi and Dr. Eyad El-Sarraj, as...

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