In an incredibly vicious and anti-Semitic cartoon issued on Twitter, a leftist mocked Meghan McCain for shedding tears at the rise of anti-Semitism in the United States.
As The Daily Wire reported, on ABC’s “The View,” Thursday, McCain argued that anti-Semitism should not be a partisan issue while noting her almost familial-ties with Sen. Joe Liberman and his wife Hadas, who are Jewish. McCain stated, “This issue is really intense one for me and just bear with me. Anti-Semitism shouldn’t be a left or right issue. I don’t think we should be politicizing on either side because, as we know, if it’s a tiki torch person in Charlottesville saying ‘Jews will not replace us’ or we had Bari Weiss talking about these more dog whistle moments, that in my view, Ilhan Omar is doing.”
McCain added, “I take this very personally. I don’t have family that is Jewish but Joe Lieberman and Hadas Lieberman are my family. I take the hate crimes rising in this country incredibly seriously, and I think what’s happening in Europe is really scary and I’m sorry if I’m getting emotional. Just because I don’t technically have Jewish family that are blood related to me doesn’t mean that I don’t take this as seriously. It is very dangerous, very dangerous and I think we collectively as Americans on both sides, and what Ilhan Omar is saying is very scary to me and very scary to a lot of people and I don’t think you have to be Jewish to recognize that.”
The artist, Eli Valley, published a comic book titled, “Diaspora Boy,” with an introduction by Peter Beinart, a relentless critic of Israel. Beinart said of Valley’s work, “His cartoons aren’t only raucously funny. They constitute a searing indictment of the moral corruption of organized American Jewish life in our age.”
Beinart and his brand of anti-Israel leftism have been on display for years. In 2015 he told an audience that Israel deserved the violence perpetrated on it by the Palestinians, saying, “While we condemn Palestinian violence, we must recognize this painful truth: that Israeli policy has encouraged it. Israel has encouraged it by penalizing Palestinian nonviolence, by responding to that nonviolence by deportations, teargas, imprisonment, and the confiscation of Palestinian lands. Hard as it is to say, the Israeli government is reaping what it has sowed.”
The artist, Eli Valley, according to The Times of Israel, participates in rallies and marches with If Not Now, a leftist organization that targets Israel; from 2011 to 2015 he was the artist in residence at the left-wing publication The Forward. The Times Of Israel noted that Commentary called Valley’s work “Ferociously repugnant,” and Abraham Foxman, then head of the Anti-Defamation League, told Valley his work was “Bigoted, unfunny.”
In January 2019, Valley issued a cartoon picturing President Trump copulating with a dead boar while children around him were behind bars and KKK men watched what was happening.
When McCain responded that Valley’s cartoon was anti-Semitic, some people tried to defend Valley from the charge on the grounds that he was Jewish:
