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=== Latuff's response ===
[[File:Al-Rashid massacre (1) by Carlos Latuff.jpg|thumb|Cartoon by Carlos Latuff criticizing the '[[Flour Massacre]]']]Latuff, in an interview with the Jewish-American weekly newspaper ''The Forward'' in December 2008, responded to charges of antisemitism and the comparisons made between his cartoons and those published in ''[[Der Stürmer]]'' in Nazi Germany:<blockquote>My cartoons have no focus on the Jews or on Judaism. My focus is Israel as a political entity, as a government, their armed forces being a satellite of U.S. interests in the Middle East, and especially Israeli policies toward the Palestinians. It happens to be Israeli Jews that are the oppressors of Palestinians... My detractors say that the use of the [[Magen David]] in my Israel-related cartoons is irrefutable proof of antisemitism; however, it’s not my fault if Israel chose sacred [[religious symbol|religious motif]]s as [[national symbols]], such as the [[Knesset Menorah]] or the [[Star of David]] in killing-machines like [[F-16]] jets.<ref name="Deny allegations">{{cite news|last1=Portnoy|first1=Eddy|last2=Latuff|first2=Carlos|url=http://www.forward.com/articles/14745/|title=Latuff: Cartoonist in Conversation|work=The Forward|date=December 18, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110223120425/http://www.forward.com/articles/14745/|archive-date=February 23, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref></blockquote>
Latuff also stated that anti-Semitism is real, that anti-Semites like European neo-Nazis, "hijack" the Palestinian cause to bash Israel. To assert, however, that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitic is, in his view, "a well-known tactic of intellectual dishonesty." He said that political cartoonists work by metaphors, and that similarities can be found between the IDF treatment of Palestinians and what Jews experienced under the Nazis. Such comparisons are not created by cartoonists, he said, but can be made by the viewer. He instanced the fact that a Holocaust survivor like [[Tommy Lapid]] reacted to the image of a Palestinian woman foraging in the rubble by thinking of his grandmother who was murdered in Auschwitz. The use of cartoons insulting Muslims by depicting Muhammad as a bomber is defended as "freedom of speech", while using the Holocaust in drawings is deplored as "hatred against the Jews".<ref name="Deny allegations" />
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