A prominent Jewish community in Spain is considering taking legal action against a satirical magazine which printed allegedly antisemitic and anti-Israel cartoons.

The Jewish Community of Madrid took offence at the latest issue of the Barcelona-based El Jueves publication, which showed an Israeli soldier urinating on a kaffiyeh-wearing Arab man and accused Jerusalem’s Israel Museum of keeping a Torah wrapped in scrotum skin.

The edition, which also featured Jews with hooked noses, depicted the IDF soldier explaining to his victim: “You don't understand. My parents were in a concentration camp.”

Below the frame is the caption: “Israel is like a child who saw his father hit his mother, and now has grown up hit to his wife.”

Another image is captioned with a description of Israel as “the promised land a science fiction book says was given to a group of people by a made-up God.

“Israel,” it continues, “the paradise of the Jews and no one else, because they refuse to share it with anyone who does not embrace their religion.

“Currently, 90 per cent of the land of Israel is in Hebrew hands, and the main objective of this national fund is that no property is controlled by non-Jews.”

Jewish Community of Madrid president David Hatchwell said the magazine was “abusive” and that it “featured many elements of classic antisemitism.”

Speaking to Israeli media outlet Israel Hayom, Mr Hatchwell added that the images “could be taken from the Nazis’ (weekly newspaper) Der Stürmer and nobody would notice the difference.”

He said that French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo “uses satire to criticise racism,” whereas El Jueves had published “pure antisemitism.

“It's easy to level such criticism at Jews, because we don't set magazines on fire for insulting us.”

The comic’s cartoonist Julio Serrano defended his creation as anti-Israel rather than antisemitic, saying: “This isn't an attack against Jews, but against Israel's unjust laws.”