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Your Wallet
Background Information
In response to a data hack of a large bank, this cartoon depicts a wallet with a bank card and a presumably
Jewish man with a balding scalp and hooked nose, hacking away at a laptop. In reality, the hacker was a software engineer who was neither Jewish nor an old man.
Jewish man with a balding scalp and hooked nose, hacking away at a laptop. In reality, the hacker was a software engineer who was neither Jewish nor an old man.
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Attack Opponents
This is propaganda because
This image plays on stereotypes of Jews as cunning, greedy, wicked, and in control of global financial institutions. The idea that Jews have large noses or other identifiable features is a myth. Depictions of Jews with distinctively large and hooked noses began in the 12th century as a way to mark them as grotesque and recognizable.
Source
Edmonton Journal, Canada
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