I think that Israel’s political cartoonist, Yaakov Kirschen, is overall the cleverest, clearest-thinking English language political cartoonist in the business. His (generally) 4-panel format allows him some latitude in making his points, by creating dynamics of progression and punchline, which he uses well.
That’s all by way of background to introducing the following cartoon which, while perhaps not a paradigm of political cartooning perfection, is nonetheless, imo, the most piercingly brilliant observation about the nature of anti-Semitism ever made. Entire shelves of books dedicated to anti-Semitism miss its essential nature in an endless quest to understand it via frames of reference external to the nature of a unique pathology. Untold money has been spent on innumerable organizations and centers and projects and curricula designed to solve the problem or end anti-Semitism. Policies and laws and regulations and codes have been debated and negotiated and passed to eliminate anti-Semitism.
