Cartoon branded 'hideously anti-Semitic'

NEW YORK, March 26 (UPI) -- A syndicated cartoon by Pat Oliphant, appearing in U.S. newspapers and on the Internet Thursday, has drawn the ire of The Anti-Defamation League.

The ADL, commenting on its Web site, branded the cartoon "hideously anti-Semitic" because of " Nazi-like imagery and hateful evocation of the Jewish Star of David."

The cartoon portrays a headless, jack-booted figure marching in a goose-step with a sword in one hand and pushing a fanged Star of David on a wheel with the other, chasing a woman carrying a child, labeled "Gaza."