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This Daily Mail Anti-Refugee Cartoon Is StraightOut Of Nazi Germany 

The cartoon prompte outrage on social meia!

Ryan GrenobleNews Editor, The Huffington Post

• http://twitter.com/g_nobesPosted: 11/17/2015 03:08 PM EST | Edited: 11/18/2015 10:24 AM EST

The Daily Mail just went there."There" being Nazi Europe circa 1939, as seen through the lens opropagan!ala!en cartoons !epicting the #ews as rats to be swept out o$er%any. &ritish cartoonist 'tanley "Mac" McMurtry borrowe! hea(ily ro%that i%agery  or his latest piece in The Daily Mail. )nstea! o #ews, howe(er,the "rats" are a hor!e o Musli%s*

)n the oregroun! o Mac+s cartoon, a %an in a tunic carries a %at, presu%ably 

or praying. #ust past hi%, the !arene! silhouette o a wo%an in a hijab wals towar! a sign that boasts o "open bor!ers" an! "the ree %o(e%ent opeople." "-elco%e to Europe," it rea!s.

 nother %an, alrea!y past the sign, is uni!entiiable but or the %uzzle o arile poing e(er so slightly into the air ro% his bac. /est there be any !oubtabout the o%inously sha!owe! %an+s true nature, an une%pt bear! sproutsro% his ace, his hea! toppe! with a 0ashtun cap o the sort worn by

 ghanistan+s %ujahi!een. ll the while, rats scurry between the i%%igrants+ eet.'oon ater The Daily Mail publishe! Mac+s cartoon, )nternet co%%entersline! it to this wor, publishe! in a iennese newspaper by the na%e o "Das2leine &latt" in 1939*

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The wor !epicts a swar% o rats, wipe! ro% the !oorstep o $er%any, then!elights as they+re barre! entry ro% "!e%ocratic" countries the sa%e onescritical o $er%any+s treat%ent o the #ews.pwar!s o 456,666 reugees ha(e sought asylu% in Europe so ar this year,%any o the% leeing (iolence in the Mi!!le East. pre(ailing io(erblown concern has been that religious e7tre%ists %ight iniltratecountries by posing as a reugee.

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The Daily Mail has beenaccused of xenophobia after

publishing a cartoon that

depicts refugees as ratsPosted 11 days ago byBethan McKernan in newshttp://i100.independent.co.uk/article/the-daily-mail-has-been-accused-of-xenophobia-after-

publishing-a-cartoon-that-depicts-refugees-as-rats--bkJRYorPYe

In the wake of the Isis terror attacks in Paris last week,tensions over the idea of open borders have been runninghigh all over Europe.

The president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, has urged

member states not to use the atrocities carried out by Isis as a reason to

backtrack on EU promises to take in 160,000 refugees.Speaking at a news conference at the G20 summit in Turkey yesterday,

Juncker said:

We should not mix the dierent categories o! people coming to"urope. #hose who organised these attac$s and those thatperpetrated them are exactly those that the re!ugees are %eeingand not the opposite.

TheDaily Mail has been under fire recently for tasteless cartoons targeting

the desperate people washing up on Europe's shores from North Africa and

the Middle East, including one that suggesteddead re!ugees trying to getinto hea&en do so 'illegally'.

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And sadly, it chose to ignore Juncker's words about the refugee crisis this

week as well, publishing this cartoon today:

Several people have pointed out the similarities between today's Mac cartoon

and anAustrian newspaper cartoon from 1939, showing how Jews fleeing

Germany were turned away by the rest of "democratic" Europe.

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Depicting Jews as rats was a common trope of Nazi and other anti-semitic

propaganda from the 1930s and 40s.

Kate Allen, the director of Amnesty International UK, toldi100.co.uk  that

such images were "reckless" and showed a "lack of compassion":

 #he Daily Mail(s cartoon is precisely the sort o! rec$less xenophobiathat !uels the sel!)same !ear and hate lo&ed by those responsible !oratrocities in Paris* Beirut* +n$ara and elsewhere.,ow more than e&er is the time to stand together in de-ance o! theperpetrators o! &iolence with all o! their &ictims and reect thisdisturbing lac$ o! compassion.

Since it's 2015, here's a cartooni100.co.uk  thinks is more appropriate...

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Millions o! people are %eeing a brutally oppressi&e regime andalmost certain extermination. +nd The Daily Mail depicts thesepeople as rats and ocks their desperation.t's appalling and hard to belie&e )) but true. The Daily Mailpublished a cartoon depicting !yrian refugees "" onecarrying a ri#e "" and a throng of rats streaing intoEurope. t closely resembles an in!amous piece o! 100 ,a2i

propaganda depicting 3ewish people as rats shut out !romdemocratic countries a!ter escaping 4itler.There is no excuse for this hateful, dehuanising cartoon.Tell The Daily Mail to apologise and withdraw the iage.$nti"iigrant forces across Europe have already beentrying to deonise and dehuanise the four illion !yrianrefugees #eeing I!I! and a catastrophic civil war backhoe. With the recent Paris attac$s* that trend has only increased.5or #he 6aily Mail to oin in )) with imagery literally used by the,a2is )) is beneath contempt.

 #he 6aily Mail has been here be!ore. t ran articles supporting

!ascism* the rise o! 4itler and 7swald Mosley's British 8nion o!5ascists* and later whipped up a !ren2y o! !ear when 3ewish re!ugeeswere see$ing shelter in the 8K %eeing the ,a2is. %ow the Mail hasturned it hatred on !yrians #eeing war, violence andpersecution.&ur counity has taken on the ight of the Mail and theedia before. When it ran a horrible transphobic article that mayha&e contributed to the suicide o! a trans school teacher* we werethere standing up !or trans rights. When Murdoch's #he 9un ran acompetition oering Page girls as a rae pri2e* we werethere demanding the competition was withdrawn )) and won; 'ecan(t let the Mail(s portrayal of desperate people to standunchallenged.

 )oin us in deanding that The Daily Mail take responsibilityfor its cartoon that could have coe straight out of %a*i+erany.