![]() Holocaust imagery linked to Israeli policy also exploits older accusations of a Jewish conspiracy to control the world (such as in the antisemitic book The Protocols of the Elders of Zion) by suggesting that attention to the Holocaust is part of a sinister strategy to garner exceptional treatment for the Jewish state. When individuals or governments misappropriate iconography of the Holocaust as a weapon against Jews or the Jewish state, they do so not merely with the intention of exploiting the pain of its memory, but also in the hope that such images will mobilize persons to their cause who are not themselves antisemitic. Similarly, a sign used at a public protest in Washington, DC, in March 2010, showed a distorted but recognizable version of the Israeli flag in which a swastika dripping with blood replaced the Star of David. For example, a cartoon image equating the Gaza Strip with the Warsaw ghetto is an explicit effort to demonize Israeli policies and close off reasonable debate by equating the policies with Nazi genocidal ones. Some misuses reflect a conscious, informed attempt to attack and de-legitimize a specifically Jewish target.
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