Anti-Arab caricature reused the same visual stereotypes earlier aimed at Jews and Mormons

Evidence

The Palestinian terrorist trope informed domestic racial projects that involved the surveillance, special registration, deportation, and prosecution of Arab American individuals and organizations opposed to US Middle East policy. Political cartoons, eerily similar to those that demonized Jews and Mormons in the early twentieth century, portrayed Arabs as aggressive, scheming, and beastlike. As Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg note, during the 1973 oil crisis, “Arabs were given large misshapen noses, facial hair, furry eyebrows, and generally vile and sly countenances.” — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 653

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• ADDENDUM: Connects to the article on ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ via the shared theme of visual/stereotype signaling of outsiders, though the overlap is more thematic than direct.
• SHARE: The Gottschalk & Greenberg quote on Arab caricature during the 1973 oil crisis is a nimble detail for anyone studying political cartoon history.