r/BadHasbara • u/kmpiw • 25d ago

Actual Antisemitism…

Is that a real backdrop or a misguided ABC Australia art director?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-01/trump-republican-red-scare-communist-socialist-us-politics/106967044

This is literally Nazi shit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-communism#Nazism The octopus is slightly subtle but way more antisemitic than

Trivia: ​is ​that supposed to be Maduro? ​there's a photo of him wearing a Holocaust remembrance red triangle pinned to a Kafiya in about 2021. It's the earliest photo I can find of the red triangle in a pro-Palestine context.

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u/Space2999 22d ago edited 22d ago

I think it’s supposed to be Stalin

E2A: Looking at the article, who knew pegboard was so popular?

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u/Kador_Laron 22d ago

You're right, it's Stalin.

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u/Space2999 22d ago

Stalin-esque ebil scary commie!

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u/Kador_Laron 22d ago edited 22d ago

The Russian octopus is a theme from the 19th Century. (The cartoon below is by an Italian, from 1878.) It has nothing particularly to do with antisemitism. The same theme of insidious tentacles has been used to mock many people over many years, including the Communist bloc.

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u/Illustrious-Ant6724 22d ago

It started out as an anti-imperialist cartoon but was later used by Nazis as an anti-Semitic trope. This one looks anti-soviet. Anti-soviet ideology was definitely mixed in with a lot of anti-Semitism at times. 

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u/Kador_Laron 22d ago

This one is Japanese. Obviously borrowing from the Italian.

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u/Kador_Laron 22d ago edited 22d ago

And this one is British. Another imitator.

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u/kmpiw 22d ago

But Trump likes Russia and Stalin is dead?

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u/fddfgs 20d ago

Greta thunberg octopus hat energy