`` outlandish and offensive use of the Star of David in combination with Nazi-like imagery is hideously anti-Semitic . '' `` It employs Nazi imagery by portraying Israel as a jack-booted , goose-stepping headless apparition , '' Foxman said . `` The implication is of an Israeli policy without a head or a heart . Israel 's defensive military operation to protect the lives of its men , women and children who are being continuously bombarded by Hamas rocket attacks has been turned on its head to show the victims as heartless , headless aggressors . '' The Wiesenthal Center , which also issued its statement Wednesday , said it urged The New York Times Web site and other Web sites to remove the cartoon . `` There is nothing about Oliphant 's cartoon not meant to denigrate and demonize the Jewish state , from the headless goose-stepping soldier to the horrific depiction of the Star of David about to devour a cowering innocent Gazan woman holding a baby , '' Rabbi Marvin Hier , the group 's dean , and Rabbi Abraham Cooper , the group 's associate dean , said in a joint statement . `` The imagery
-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Two leading Jewish watchdog groups are denouncing a prominent cartoonist 's illustration about Israel 's offensive in Gaza , saying it uses anti-Semitic imagery . The cartoon was published Wednesday in newspapers and on the Internet . The Anti-Defamation League , which has been fighting anti-Semitism since it was founded in 1913 , called the syndicated cartoon by Pulitzer Prize-winning Pat Oliphant `` hideously anti-Semitic . '' The Simon Wiesenthal Center , which , among other things , fights anti-Semitism and educates people about the Holocaust , said `` the cartoon mimics the venomous anti-Semitic propaganda of the Nazi and Soviet eras . '' Published Wednesday in newspapers and on the Internet , the cartoon shows the small figure of a woman , labeled Gaza , carrying a child . She is being pursued by a headless , jackbooted figure wielding a sword , marching in an apparent goose-step and pushing a fanged Jewish star on a wheel . The Anti-Defamation League said the cartoon used `` Nazi-like imagery '' and a `` hateful evocation of the Star of David . '' Abraham H. Foxman , the ADL 's national director , said the cartoon 's