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No Humour, All Hate: Racist Cartoons in the Middle East
They’re young Arabs who spend their afternoons trying to bomb Israeli buses, gun down Jewish girls and incinerate crowded cafes, and in the three months since their debut, their caricature of Islamic extremism has attracted a growing cult following in Israel.
Iranian Caricatures of Candidates Go Viral
Colorful cartoons of the four candidates in Iran’s stormy presidential elections have gone viral. The cartoons by an anonymous artist are all over the Iranian blogosphere and via email, and poke fun at the hardline incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Sketching Israeli Apartheid
A new four page comic shows the basic commonalities between South African and Israeli apartheid systems — the discriminatory control, collective punishment and denial of rights that privileges one group of people over another. As reported by The Arabist, Ethan Heitner, a comic artist, drew inspiration from Desmond Tutu and Ian Urbina’s classic 2002 article [...]
Poll: Which Comic is More Offensive?
Today’s Israel National News website (click on the image left to see a screen capture), featured the cartoon below in an ad for a blog: Or, today’s Mahjoob strip? My take: Clearly, the top one is racist. It is hateful and meant to associate Arabs/Iranians/Muslims with violence and bombs; thus it relies on stereotyping of [...]
Oliphant Cartoon Pisses Off Foxman
A recent editorial cartoon by Pat Oliphant has the ADL in an uproar. The organization labeled the nationally syndicated cartoon “hideously anti-Semitic.” Abraham Foxman, the national director, issued a statement, “Pat Oliphant’s outlandish and offensive use of the Star of David in combination with Nazi-like imagery is hideously anti-Semitic.” If he is so outraged by [...]
The Human Shields Myth in Political Cartoons
Jillian sent around a link to an MSNBC webpage highlighting editorial cartoons from around the world. For the most part, the American cartoonists mindlessly and often unartistically rendered Israeli talking points, most dangerously, the one about Hamas using human shields. It’s really a strange logic: even if Hamas uses human shields, what right does Israel [...]
Gaza: No More Room to Bury the Dead
Reports the International Herald Tribune: “More than two weeks into a blistering Israeli offensive that Palestinian medical officials say has killed more than 940 Palestinians, Gazans are struggling to find places to bury their dead. One family buried their slain son with his grandfather. Another man was buried with his cousin. Cemeteries throughout Gaza City [...]
Palestine’s Guernica
Two weeks ago, just one or two days after Israel began its massacres in Gaza, Palestinian politician Mustafa Barghouthi authored a column called “Palestine’s Guernica” tearing apart Israel’s justifications for the attacks. Mexican cartoonist Angel Boligan has finally put the analogy to images. The original was painted by Pablo Picasso after Guernica, Spain was bombed [...]
KABOBfest Exclusive: IDF Finds New Hamas Document
Through a complex network of kosher undercover spies, KABOBfest Chief Investigative Reporter Extraordinaire Chaim Sugarman has acquired and leaked a Qassam Rockets: Hamas How-To Guide. Much like the infamous Al-Attara “sketch,” the How-To Guide is hand-drawn and directs Hamas operatives on how to create and detonate a Qassam Rocket (otherwise known as a Genocide-Seeking Quasinuclear [...]
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