I didn't like the cartoon meme Yair Netanyahu shared. But I didn't think it was anything important. So he shared it; not a big deal. But given the enormous wave of righteousness about it on almost every media outlet, the immense pressure on the public consciousness to be "horrified" and "condemn" it, and of course, to blame the prime minister (how could they not-) -- it's important to present the other side, for the sake of free thought. What do you know, the denouncers accused, anti-Semitic sites shared the cartoon. I went onto the site of Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and saw that he had shared not only the cartoon, but the report about it from the Haaretz English website. There's a reason he keeps tabs on that paper. We can express harsh criticism over the bad cartoon, but if a share on neo-Nazi websites is a test for criticism, you should know that the Israeli paper that stars on such sites (as well as on Islamist and pro-BDS sites) is Haaretz. "Yair Netanyahu's anti-Semitic cartoon," Yedioth Ahronoth screamed, "crosses not only a red line, but a black one. Anti-Semitism in the name of the fight," it wrote. Wow. About a year ago, Yedioth published a banner headline stating that "the new IDF chief rabbi" had ruled that "rape is permissible in war." Read it again, the anti-Semitic lie that ran on one of the most widely distributed papers in Israel. Israel Hayom was the only paper that condemned that falsehood. It barely ruffled the media's feathers compared to the cosmic horror we experienced yesterday over a stupid cartoon, as if it was the earthquake in Mexico or Hurricane Irma, both of which were marginalized in Yedioth to make room for about 80 pages on meals at the Prime Minister's Residence. Who needs George Soros and his pack of anti-Israeli groups when you have a headline in Yedioth that glorifies everyone who has ever hated Israel and the Jewish people? Now they're coming to educate us. Over the past few decades, thousands of poisonous articles have been published against the pioneers in Judea and Samaria that used descriptions lifted directly from anti-Semitic literature. The part of the Jew is now played by the "settler." And how do the papers that insist on teaching us to be horrified about the crappy cartoon regularly portray haredi society? Yesterday on the "Kalman-Lieberman" radio program, Barak Ravid of Haaretz said that the original cartoon, rather than the meme Netanyahu Jr. shared, showed "a haredi Jew with a long nose. There's no debate about whether it was anti-Semitic." When was the last time Ravid looked at how his own paper presents haredim and "settlers" in the cartoons by Amos Biderman or the slanderous pieces in the op-ed section? Where does he get the audacity to instruct us about when and how to be horrified, when anti-Semitic headlines and portrayals appear regularly in both Hebrew and English in the home of the professionally appalled? Let's revisit the meme Yair Netanyahu shared. It shows an Israel-hating Jew (Soros) controlling Israeli politicians and activists. Some elements were supposedly taken from anti-Semitic cartoons. "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" described Jews as controlling the world through their money. Did that horrify you? Let's see. In March 2015, the prime minister of Israel set out to give the speech of his life before the U.S. Congress. He wanted to persuade both houses not to support the imminent nuclear deal with Iran. I was there, and I understood how deep the ancient Jewish concept of "kiddush hashem" (sanctification of God's name) runs. Later, I went down to the floor to read how Israel Prize for journalism laureate Nahum Barnea, writing in Yedioth Ahronoth, saw it: Why did the American elected officials "welcome Netanyahu with great warmth, far beyond what protocol called for, far beyond accepted politeness" -- was it because he convinced them, or caused them to wonder about the deal? Not at all. Pay attention to this: "The members of Congress ... are applauding according to orders from the stands." Who was sitting there? "From the stands, Jewish billionaires were supervising their proteges downstairs. They came to watch their investment bear fruit, firsthand. American politics is currently enslaved to big money." This is Barnea's "Protocols of the Elders of Yedioth Ahronoth": The Jews control American politics through their money. So what if your imagination omitted the lizard that was stuck to Soros in the meme -- is that what kept you from being horrified-
