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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGuardian veteran cartoonist Steve Bell fired over this cartoon..said to be antisemetic
It's said it harkens to "pound of flesh" phrase from Shakespeare???
underpants
(183,265 posts)If they did they shouldnt fire him. The editors should have told him to do another one.
AZSkiffyGeek
(11,239 posts)hlthe2b
(102,698 posts)Not subtle... sigh
redqueen
(115,113 posts)Demovictory9
(32,543 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,873 posts)Maybe the British go to Shakespeare more readily than I do.
electric_blue68
(15,123 posts)LexVegas
(6,128 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,482 posts)The cartoon depicts Netanyahu preparing to cut a Gaza-shaped hole in his own abdomen with a scalpel. Netanyahu has ordered a complete siege of the Palestinian enclave of two million after Hamas militants killed hundreds of Israeli civilians over the weekend.
Link to tweet
Shylock wasn't planning on cutting his own flesh, of course.
redqueen
(115,113 posts)yardwork
(61,885 posts)In this version, Netanyahu is cutting a piece of himself out. This seems to be a direct reference to the "pound of flesh," which leads right to Shylock, an infamously anti-Semitic portrayal.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,482 posts)In the cartoon, Netanyahu is (in boxing gloves, so it's going to be messy) about to inflict the scar on himself.
yardwork
(61,885 posts)malaise
(269,731 posts)Thanks for clarity as always.
I expect Bell to be reinstated unless he chooses to leave.
Knowledge is power.
BlueCheeseAgain
(1,654 posts)Is Netanyahu about to operate on himself? Why is he wearing heavy mittens?
ret5hd
(20,609 posts)Although it will be self-injurious, Netanyahu is preparing, in a very ham-fisted way, to get his pound of flesh.
Demovictory9
(32,543 posts)The mittens imply thst the Gaza syriked wont be surgical but ragged and destructive
jmowreader
(50,632 posts)electric_blue68
(15,123 posts)GuppyGal
(1,748 posts)?????
yardwork
(61,885 posts)DET
(1,350 posts)I dont get this cartoon at all, but I dont personally view it as antisemitic. I showed it to my husband, however, and he thought that it was (hes Jewish). In any case, its a crappy cartoon.
Takket
(21,789 posts)Oneironaut
(5,564 posts)You cannot criticize Israel without being an anti-Semite. Thats a fact! Any criticism of Israel means that you support the terrorists, who are the bad guys.