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Say it isn’t so

The Atrocity Denial movement seems to be already in full swing.

Oct. 20, 2023
Dry Bones

Say it isn’t so

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Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
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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.

Jewish organizations have, for years, battled the Holocaust deniers. I wonder how soon after the world saw the horrifying concentration camp photos did evil people begin claiming that it didn’t happen. When did Holocaust denial start?

I just got a call from a friend, who reports that people in California are saying that the “dead babies” photos of the Oct. 7 Hamas slaughter were AI fakes. The Atrocity Denial movement seems to be already in full swing.

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