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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
(182,883 posts)If they did they shouldnt fire him. The editors should have told him to do another one.
AZSkiffyGeek
(11,070 posts)hlthe2b
(102,376 posts)Not subtle... sigh
redqueen
(115,103 posts)Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,854 posts)Maybe the British go to Shakespeare more readily than I do.
electric_blue68
(14,943 posts)LexVegas
(6,098 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,365 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
(115,103 posts)yardwork
(61,712 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
(101,365 posts)In the cartoon, Netanyahu is (in boxing gloves, so it's going to be messy) about to inflict the scar on himself.
yardwork
(61,712 posts)malaise
(269,177 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
(20,522 posts)Although it will be self-injurious, Netanyahu is preparing, in a very ham-fisted way, to get his pound of flesh.
Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)The mittens imply thst the Gaza syriked wont be surgical but ragged and destructive
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)electric_blue68
(14,943 posts)GuppyGal
(1,748 posts)?????
yardwork
(61,712 posts)DET
(1,324 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
(21,629 posts)Oneironaut
(5,524 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.