Category Archives: International issues

(Not) All Jews Are Welcome

Check out the timelapse drawing video for this cartoon! From an October 2024 article from In These Times: U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs of Anti-Zionists In These Times interviewed 18 Jewish professionals with 16 different Jewish organizations across … Continue reading

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Palestine & Israel | 5 Comments

Cartoon: Why We Say “As A Jew”

This comic was drawn by Becky Hawkins, who writes: I wanted to draw this cartoon. I feel like whether and how much I’m seen as Jewish fluctuates depending on where I am and who I’m with, so the conversation about … Continue reading

Posted in Cartooning & comics, International issues, Palestine & Israel | 7 Comments

Cartoon: Free Speech on Campus

In the first draft of this cartoon, the first panel went out of its way to make fun of Emma Camp’s New York Times article about students being afraid to say controversial things. Camp described her own freedom of speech being threatened when … Continue reading

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Free speech, censorship, copyright law, etc., Palestine & Israel | 6 Comments

So Much In Common

Robert Wright writes: But then I remembered a conversation I had a few years ago with a psychologist at Boston College named Liane  Young. She and some colleagues had done research on how Palestinians  and Israelis view their conflict and … Continue reading

Posted in Cartooning & comics, International issues, Palestine & Israel | 32 Comments

Cartoon: How Sanctions Usually Work

This cartoon is by me and Kevin Moore. Kevin writes: Any time I can draw over-the-top, absurd violence with satiric intent is fun for me. I don’t like guns or violence in real life, but in fiction it can be … Continue reading

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Cartoon: Yemen

If you enjoy these cartoons, please help me make more by supporting my Patreon! A $1 pledge really matters. My favorite foreign policy writer, these days, is Daniel Larison, who writes for The American Conservative. Larison’s beat is American foreign … Continue reading

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It’s Gross to Use Otto Warmbier’s Tragedy to talk about White Male Privilege

Otto Warmbier was a 22-year-old American who, early in 2016 was convicted by a North Korean court of stealing a poster. He was put in a North Korean prison, until he was returned to the US in a coma on … Continue reading

Posted in In the news, Korea, White Privilege | 53 Comments

Everyone Who Reads Rumi in English Should Read This New Yorker Article

Written by Rozina Ali, the article is called “The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi,” and it says something that Iranians I know have been saying for a very long time—something that I learned from them, in fact. … Continue reading

Posted in Iran, Islam, Writing | 5 Comments

The Absolute Basics of the US-China-Taiwan Relationship

(A post by Ben Lehman, who many of you will recognize from “Alas” comments. Reprinted from Ben’s facebook, with Ben’s kind permission. The illustration, an 1985 1865 map of China and Taiwan, was chosen by Amp.) PREAMBLE: I’m going to … Continue reading

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Let’s Not Pretend Benghazi Was The Only Objection To Clinton’s Libya Policy

Issac Saul, a Bernie supporter who has learned to love Hillary Clinton, writes: Perhaps Clinton’s greatest blemish on her record is the destabilizing of Libya, which led to the Benghazi diplomatic compound attack. Certainly, it was one of the career … Continue reading

Posted in Elections and politics, International issues, Iraq | 7 Comments