The Buffalo News drops its trousers and apologises to the Jewish community over cartoon

The Buffalo News drops its trousers and apologises to the Jewish community over cartoon

Well, this story, which you can read here, has a denouement and once again comes to a close with a newspaper dropping its trousers. The Buffalo News has finally bowed to pressure from the Jewish community and apologised to the Chabad Center for Jewish Life and other groups and members of the community

Canadian newspaper withdraws cartoon, apologises and dispenses with cartoonist

Canadian newspaper withdraws cartoon, apologises and dispenses with cartoonist

Accusations pulling the wild card of anti-Semitism in cartoons might as well be a general category of this blog, because there are enough cases to fill it twice over. In the case of the syndicated cartoonists, although technically it is not technically a dismissal because it is a service that the newspapers contract

Bad times for humour

Bad times for humour

"Warning. This magazine may contain some criticism of the Israel governnement and may suggest that killing everyone in Gaza as revenge for Hamas atrocities may not be a long-term solution to the problems of the region". While bombs continue to fall on the heads of thousands of civilians in Palestine, other clashes are

The Guardian refuses to publish Steve Bell's cartoon about Netanyahu on grounds of "anti-Semitism", days later fires cartoonist

Steve Bell Netanyahu

TR: "Gaza residents, get out now" The Guardian has reportedly refused to publish this cartoon by its cartoonist Steve Bell featuring Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, on the grounds that the piece perpetuated an anti-Semitic trope. In the scene, a boxing-gloved Netanyahu proceeds to remove the map of the Gaza Strip from