Here's Jeff Darcy at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, great. Hispaper promptly retrenched from his view of Gaza. And here's Matt Bors, more Gaza inhumanity. Thanks to Idrees Ahmad.
Oh and here's Emily Henochowicz again. Her paintings for the "apartheid wall."
Hey don’t forget Tom Toles in the WaPo, including today, and archived… and of course the matchless Ann Telnaes.
I think the fact that so many of the cartoonists “get” it is really significant at the level of the general culture. (Thank G-d Herb Block retired a few yrs ago.)
The Matt Bors McGyver cartoon is priceless and really hits the bull’s-eye. Israelis have taken their exploration of the ridiculous to lows never yet fathomed. And worse of all they think the rest of the world is stupid enough to buy their garbage excuses.
RE: Jeff Darcy’s editorial cartoon at the Cleveland Plain Dealer
FROM IDREES AT PULSE: The editorial cartoon by Jeff Darcy appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on June 3…The ADL and CAMERA immediately unleashed the Israel Lobby’s flak machine; they wouldn’t tolerate such favourable representation of what the American Jewish Committee calls ‘The Terror Flotilla‘. It did not take long for the editors to cave and issue a grovelling apology. It is now time for you to register your opinion. – link to cleveland.com
Too bad the comments have all been hijacked by the Helen Thomas flap.
I just checked out the response from the editorial board. You get the impression it was dictated to it by AIPAC (which it probably was). This indicates the newspaper editors must have received some serious threats from the powers that be to have caved in like this.
There is another interesting phenomenon that is starting to occur across the Internet that is reflected in the comments section following the editorial board response. All of the comments are following the board’s article ( seven at the point I had finished the article early this morning) are pro Israel.
This is happening more and more since the flotilla incident. The supporters of Israel appear to be given advance notice of the articles so that they can load up the comments sections when they first open. Then the comments sections are mysteriously cut off to other writers or simply vanish when the peasants get too uppity with their comments.
This is why any impartial website with a comment section should publish the latest comments to articles first rather last to avoid this sort of problem.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer was clearly threatened and it has good reason to pay heed to such threats. In the San Francisco Bay Area supporters of AIPAC and the ADL have shut down down two pro Palestinians newspapers, the monthly “The Coastal Post” and “The Berkeley Daily Planet” in the last six month to year period. This was accomplished this by threatening these newpapers’ advertisers with boycotts, threatening the editorial staff, and stealing newspapers out of newspaper racks.
These newspapers were then told that the boycotts and threats would only end if the newspapers promised to never cover the situation in the Mideast again.
What was especially curious was the almost total lack of support these beleaguered newspapers received from the supposedly left wing community in the Bay Area. No big fund raising benefits. No anguished appeals from Radio station KPFA. No large scale picketing. Nothing. It was as if the two newspapers had been blacklisted by progressives. Apparently the two newspaper had veered too far away from “acceptable” opposition.
The situation reminded me of something I had observed while attending a speech given by Gilad Atzmon a few months ago in Berkeley. Atzmon favors a one state solution. The audience was made up of a significant number of older left wing Zionists. They pleaded with Atzmon saying that he was being too tough on Israel and that Israel could somehow fix itself if given a chance. Atzmon would have none of their rationalizations. He said, echoing Israel Shahak, that Israel’s original origins were based on racism and corruption and these two things made any redemption from within impossible. It had occurred tome at the time that the people criticizing Atzmon were exactly the same people who had so easily thrown “The Coastal Post” and “The Berkeley Daily Planet” to the wolves.