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A new Inquisition

At the United Nations, the Jewish state faces a new Inquisition, and António Guterres is its inquisitor general.

A new Inquisition
Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
Political cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., made aliyah to Israel in 1971 and began drawing “Dry Bones” in January 1973. The internationally syndicated, award-winning cartoons ran in The Jerusalem Post for 50 years. They were reprinted in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME and other mainstream media publications. The “Dry Bones” story has been covered by CBS, CNN and Forbes, among other outlets. He was a member of America’s National Cartoonists Society and the Israeli Cartoonists Society. Kirschen died at 87 on April 14, 2025.

António Guterres is secretary-general of the United Nations. His public response to the Hamas Oct. 7 atrocity was to justify the slaughter of Israelis by reciting a stream of pitiful excuses and outrageous explanations.

Unfortunately, the secretary-general is accurately stating the anti-Israeli view of most of the member countries of the organization that he heads.

At the United Nations, the Jewish state faces a new Inquisition, and António Guterres is its inquisitor general.

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