Clasped Hands

The close-cropped hands of the Happy Merchant. They are clasped and filled in with a Star of David. A caption below reads "[shekels intensify]".

Clasped Hands can be a visual shorthand for the antisemitic Happy Merchant meme. The gesture is meant to represent conspiratorial stereotypes about Jewish plots and greed.

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