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@ampersand: I agree. Based on the numbers in the link, PA wasn't either the worst or the best in terms…
On the one hand I think that nobody really handled the pandemic that well. Even those governments and institutions that…
Dianne, looking more into it, I do think there's space for criticism of Levine's department during her tenure, including that…
Yes I think Netanyahu is cunning enough to avoid deliberately calling for this. Partly because he seems likes to position…
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Category Archives: Palestine & Israel
Nobody In Israel Said That!
Sources for all quotes used in the cartoon are at the end of this post. In a TV appearance in April 2024, Israeli-American journalist and pundit Emily Schrader said, “I don’t know of anyone who is in the current Israeli … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Palestine & Israel
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The Implications Have Become The Monster
This is just an in-joke for me (and for you folks), but I’m pleased by the store sign in panel one, which is blocked by both a telephone pole and a word balloon. It says “Obscured Signs Inc.” In real … Continue reading
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Why Are You Singling Out Israel?
If you publicly criticize Israel, you’ll sooner or later be confronted with the “why are you singling out Israel” critique. “There are so many nations in the world – so picking on the world’s one and only Jewish state must … Continue reading
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(Not) All Jews Are Welcome
Note: This cartoon has been revised. You can see the earlier version of it here. 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 … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Palestine & Israel
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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
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
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
Reading Journal: Verses of Forgiveness, by Myriam Aantaki — 2
I continue to be fascinated with this book—part 1 of this reading journal is here—and with the effort Ahmed (the narrator) makes, even while he is planning a suicide attack against Israel, to imagine his Jewish father’s life. The author, Myriam Antaki, … Continue reading
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Reading Journal: Verses of Forgiveness, by Myriam Antaki – 1
I started a new novel not too long ago, Verses of Forgiveness, by Myriam Antaki and translated from the French by Marjolin de Jager. Antaki is a Syrian novelist who writes in French. Verses of Forgiveness, which is narrated in a lyrical, dream-like … Continue reading
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Being called racist or sexist does not “destroy” people, and, Joseph Levine’s defense of calling someone an awful human being
On drawing breaks lately, I’ve been leaving comments on Ozy’s blog, which I feel a bit guilty about since I’ve been neglecting my own blog. (Leaving comments on someone else’s blog is, somehow, easier and quicker for me than writing … Continue reading
@watcher: On the one hand I think that nobody really handled the pandemic that well. Have you ever played the…