Peace: The Arabian Caricature of Anti-Semitic Imagery

Stav, Director of the Ariel Center for Policy Research, uses an analysis of caricatures, past and present, to examine the idea that the Arab nations and peoples of the Middle East have in recent years undergone a transformation making them less hostile to Israel and the Jews. This book contends, however, that although Israel has made numerous concessions on behalf of peace, Arab hostility continues, and that this hostility is particularly obvious in the caricatures of the Arabic state-owned and operated press. Covering a history of anti-Semitic caricature from the Middle Ages to the present, emphasizing particularly those of Nazi Germany and modern Arab nations, this book explores the ways in which caricature has justified violence and demonized the entire Jewish people.