Political Cartoon
Dr. Qasim Arkawazy’s 2023 posts came to light after an investigation into his identification of a patient as Jewish in medical papers.
Yaakov Kirschen’s down-to-earth needling of public figures in “Dry Bones” epitomized Jerusalem’s refusal to bow to foreign diktats.
Considered “a national treasure of the Jewish people,” the Brooklyn, N.Y.-born artist won the 2014 Nefesh B’Nefesh Bonei Zion Prize for his contribution to Israeli culture.
“I think it’s the same reason they gave to Jesus just before they crucified him,” former lecturer Dwayne Booth wrote on social media.
Accused of fanning anti-Islam sentiment, the “National Review” drawing also drew attention to the alleged pro-terrorist actions of radical Democrats.
The image depicting Erwin Chemerinsky, the Jewish dean of the law school, holding bloody silverware was soon replaced.
The reproduction of a 1967 political cartoon features a hand with a Star of David on it holding nooses around the necks of Muhammad Ali and former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Images show Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shoveling skulls, Israel’s flag made to look like a Nazi one, big noses and allusions to genocide.
“In other cartoons, it’s more Israel-based; this one really went to the core,” a local Chabad rabbi said.
Fighting a death cult
Expecting that the legacy news media to understand what Israel is facing in Hamas was naive.
The problem that we (and Israel’s leadership) now must face is that America’s tie to Israel is breakable.
