Israel’s Haaretz newspaper has strongly backed a cartoonist who sparked a storm of controversy by depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a 9/11 terrorist flying toward the World Trade Center. Editor-in-chief Aluf Benn said critics were “misreading” the comic by senior cartoonist Amos Biderman — and pointedly refused to apologize or retract the explosive work….
Israeli cartoonist Amos Biderman stood by his an explosive work that depicts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flying a plane towards the World Trade Center. Biderman, the political cartoonist for the liberal Haaretz newspaper, said he “never imagined” the harsh reaction to the terror-themed cartoon but pointedly refused to apologize in an article published on its…
Today in things in poor taste: A Haaretz cartoon by Amos Biderman showing one Bibi Netanyahu, flying an Israel plane into an American building. Subtle. I guess people who lost a loved one on 9/11 will just have to get past that boring old thing called grief in the interest of depicting political tension.
Last time we checked in with artist Liana Finck, she was asking Facebook friends what they thought God looked like. Today, she asks a more personal question: What were your childhood beliefs? The answers are enlightening. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE
“The Simpsons” 25th anniversary marathon on cable network FXX — now airing every episode, plus the 2007 feature film — includes a surprising insight for careful observers: The award-winning cartoon sitcom is one of the Jews’ best friends. For millions in North America and globally who have never actually met a Jew, “The Simpsons” has…
A controversial columnist for a major Australian newspaper resigned after he was exposed sending “anti-Semitic” emails and tweets to critics. Mike Carlton, a longstanding columnist for Saturday’s edition of the Sydney Morning Herald, resigned “on the spot” Tuesday when management suspended him after he called one reader a “Jewish bigot” and told others to “f—k…
The Sydney Morning Herald apologized “unreservedly” for publishing a cartoon that Jewish leaders called “crudely anti-Semitic.” Jewish leaders had threatened legal action if the daily did not publish an apology for the July 26 cartoon by Glen Le Lievre. The cartoon depicted a hook-nosed Jewish man wearing a kippah and sitting on an armchair emblazoned…
The umbrella body of the Jewish community in Sydney threatened to take action against a major newspaper for publishing a cartoon about Gaza that it claims “racially vilifies” Jews. Yair Miller, president of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies, wrote to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald Tuesday claiming that the cartoon…
