Israel against the press

Israel against the press

"No killer wants a witness" Israel against the press. Cartoon of 16/05/2021 in CTXT The Israeli army on Saturday attacked a building in the Gaza Strip housing the offices of the Al Jazeera television network and the Associated Press (AP) news agency.  According to the AP, Israeli military authorities ordered the evacuation of ... Read more

The Guardian censors a cartoon on Jeremy Corbyn

The Guardian censors a cartoon on Jeremy Corbyn

Jeremy Corbyn apologising At least that is what its author, the cartoonist Steve Bell, claims. The cartoon in question, dated 25 November and entitled whipslah, appears on the cartoonist's page next to this text: "Spiked because it made someone at the Guardian "feel uncomfortable". This is the first time that a cartoon has ... Read more

Cartoonist fired for cartoon critical of Netanyahu's nation-state law

Avi Katz

On Tuesday 17 July, The Jerusalem Report, a fortnightly magazine published by the Israeli daily The Jerusalem Post, announced that it was dropping cartoonist Avi Katz (1949) over a cartoon, published in the magazine the same day, that caricatured Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud lawmakers as pigs. The cartoon is a parody ... Read more

Masacre of civilians in Gaza

Masacre of civilians in Gaza

Massacre of civilians in Gaza. Cartoon of 16/05/2018 in CTXT US praises Israel's "restraint" after killing 60 Palestinians. Rajoy calls for "restraint and proportionality". The UN repeats its call for containment. In 2014, the international community also called for restraint. And with the wild card of containment, the years go by and the ... Read more

German newspaper fires cartoonist for using "anti-Semitic stereotypes in a cartoon"

Netanyahu Eurovisión

Dieter Hanitzsch's cartoon published on 15 May in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung has fired the cartoonist Dieter Hanitzsch (1933) for a cartoon that some have deemed anti-Semitic. The author denied that his cartoon contained anti-Semitic messages, but the newspaper said the reasons for his dismissal were"unresolvable differences between Hanitzsch and ... Read more