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title: Palestine Entangled by World Jewry (Falastin newspaper cartoon)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/falastin-palestine-entangled-world-jewry-1936/
description: A cartoon printed with a bilingual caption, 'Palestine entangled by World Jewry', draws an octopus marked with a Star of David wrapping its tentacles…
section: Collection
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# Palestine Entangled by World Jewry (Falastin newspaper cartoon)

A cartoon printed with a bilingual caption, 'Palestine entangled by World Jewry', draws an octopus marked with a Star of David wrapping its tentacles around a distressed woman who personifies Palestine. It pins the country's troubles on a single bounded out-group, 'World Jewry', and stages the woman's peril as imminent.

- **Date:** 1936
- **Period:** [Interwar](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=interwar)
- **Made by:** Falastin (Jaffa Arab daily newspaper), reprinted in the pamphlet 'The Palestine Case' (Jaffa: Palestine New Press, 1936)
- **Region:** [Middle East and North Africa](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=middle-east-north-africa)
- **Country:** [Mandatory Palestine](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=mandatory-palestine)
- **Medium:** [Cartoon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=cartoon)
- **Issuer type:** [Media](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=media)
- **Regime:** [British Mandate Palestine](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=british-mandate-palestine)
- **Leader:** [Arthur Wauchope](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=arthur-wauchope)
- **Audience:** [Mixed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=mixed)
- **Purpose:** [Demonize](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=demonize)
- **Theme:** [Race and ethnicity](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=race-ethnicity)
- **Event:** [1936 Arab Revolt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=1936-arab-revolt)
- **Techniques:** [Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A1936_octopus_caricature_published_in_the_Falastin_newspaper.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain per Commons (PD-1996 in the U.S.; PD-Israel/British Mandate, term expired) Falastin newspaper, Jaffa, 1936; reproduced in 'The Palestine Case' (Jaffa: Palestine New Press, 1936); via Wikimedia Commons

## Text on the object

Original (Multiple) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Palestine entangled
by World Jewry

فلسطين تتخبط في شباك
اليهودية العالمية

[small marks on the octopus's head, including a Star of David and short lettering: illegible]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Palestine entangled by World Jewry

Palestine flounders in the toils [lit. nets] of world Jewry

[small marks on the octopus's head: illegible]
```

Read from a 500 px thumbnail; the English and Arabic captions flank the drawing and say the same thing, the Arabic reading 'in the net(s)' as best made out. The tiny lettering on the octopus's head cannot be read at this size. Translation is literal, machine-made, and not checked by a fluent reader.

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