To give OP credit, I think the connection theyre making is with the “happy merchant” image of a bearded Jewish man hunched over, cackling and rubbing their hands together menacingly. My comment was that laughing evilly is too general to associate with that image, because the happy merchant is meant to specifically convey scheming underhandedness (an anti-Semitic trope) and the photograph doesn’t frame the soldier as scheming. He’s just generally sadistic.
It works on racial stereotypes not criticising Israeli politics. And it’s weird that I need to explain that to a bunch of communists.
It’s not weird to put the faces and symbols of those prosecuting a genocide out there. This isn’t a caricature.
What stereotype, laughing evilly?
Seems kind of antisemitic of that poster to assume being evil is a Semitic stereotype tbh
To give OP credit, I think the connection theyre making is with the “happy merchant” image of a bearded Jewish man hunched over, cackling and rubbing their hands together menacingly. My comment was that laughing evilly is too general to associate with that image, because the happy merchant is meant to specifically convey scheming underhandedness (an anti-Semitic trope) and the photograph doesn’t frame the soldier as scheming. He’s just generally sadistic.