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Exhibition of ultra-Orthodox military draft cartoons vandalized ahead of Animix Festival

A young man wearing a kippah confronted organizers and Tel Aviv Cinematheque CEO Tomer Cohen. They said he tore down and damaged parts of the exhibition before attempting to flee.

|ByHANNAH BROWN
Cartoon showing Moses saying, "Don't they teach this commandment at yeshivas?" and holding a tablet that says, "Thou shalt not vandalize cartoons," created in response to the incident.
CARTOON ANIMALS by lifetime achievement award winner Dovi Keich.

Tel Aviv's Animix festival combines political satire, cartoons with tributes, memorials, lectures

Alongside tributes and lectures, five-day event packs in live performances, gaming, and comics fair.

|ByHANNAH BROWN
THE CHIZBATRON, (1948) by Arieh Navon

Ink and irony: A closer look at the cartoonist who chronicled Israel’s formative years

From a discarded book at the National Library to iconic sketches of Arieh Navon, a personal journey through the satirical heart of early statehood reveals the humor and grit of our founding years.

|ByDAVID GEFFEN
A detail from Arthur Szyk's “They Too Have a Right to Live,” which first appeared in the May 12, 1943 issue of The New York Times and was presumably sponsored by the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, an organization founded by Zionist activist Peter Bergson in 1943.

This Jewish artist fought Nazis with a paintbrush, when art like his still mattered 

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt praised his contribution to the war effort, saying his art “fights the war against Hitlerism as truly as any of us who cannot actually be on the fighting fronts.”

|ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA

Thousands protest in Pakistan over printing of Mohammad cartoons in France

The cartoons sending up the Prophet Mohammad triggered outrage and unrest among Muslims around the world in 2005 when they first published by Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020ByREUTERS
Supporters of religious and political party Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) wave as they chant slogans against the satirical French weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which reprinted a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad, during a protest in Karachi, Pakistan September 4, 2020

Belgian paper contains cartoon labeling Jewish town 'coronavirus village'

The August 7 drawing in Le Soir by artist Pierre Kroll, who has fought off allegations of antisemitism for several previous drawings, shows a tourist bus under the title “Go Visit Antwerp.”

AUGUST 15, 2020ByCNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA
A FLOAT with an effigy of a Jew is seen during the carnival at Aalst, Belgium, on February 23.

Australian cartoon of US candidates Harris and Biden criticized as racist

The cartoon in The Australian newspaper, known for its conservative views, depicted a beaming Biden saying, "It's time to heal a nation divided by racism."

AUGUST 14, 2020ByREUTERS
US Democratic vice presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris listens as presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event, their first joint appearance since Biden named Harris as his running mate, at Alexis Dupont High School in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., Aug

Israeli cartoonist Michel Kichka explores coronavirus

One of the best-known Israeli cartoonists encourages his students at the Bezalel Academy of Art to draw about their shutdown experience

MAY 25, 2020ByHAGAY HACOHEN
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu drawn by Michel Kichka as Caput Corona, a spoof based on the comic-book hero Captain America.

'She-Ra and the Princess of Power' passes edge of greatness

The remake, based on the 1985 animated show She-Ra Princess of Power, delighted many old fans, won a bunch of new ones.

MAY 21, 2020ByHAGAY HACOHEN
THE FIRST program of the new ‘SheRa’ series shows, from left, Glimmer, Adura and Bow

Drawing in the shadow of history – The art of David Duvshani

Inspired by his ancestor and the rich history of this land, Duvshani is one of the artists to take part in the Shuttle art project now shaping up at the Raw Art Gallery.

MARCH 17, 2020ByHAGAY HACOHEN
Artist David Duvshani and one of his prints now on display at the RawArt Gallery in Tel Aviv.

Fatah removes Nazi themed caricature after being slammed by Erdan

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan slammed Palestinian Authority President on Tuesday for saying he wants peace, called him “two faced liar.”

FEBRUARY 12, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S.

Israeli ambassador to Portugal condemns antisemitic cartoon publication

Gamzou appealed to Sábado and other platforms to not "grant the Gargalo's of this world the immunity and impunity that arise from the distortion of the concept of freedom of expression."

FEBRUARY 9, 2020ByTZVI JOFFRE
Portugal's President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa gestures near national flags of Israel and Portugal upon landing at Ben Gurion International Airport to take part in a Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial event

BDS South Africa posts antisemitic cartoon in response to peace plan

SA Jewish Board: Label of ‘kosher cheese’ in cartoon leaves no doubt it targets Jewish people

FEBRUARY 2, 2020ByILANIT CHERNICK
Protestors call for the severing of diplomatic ties with Israel during a march in Cape Town, South Africa.

Portuguese cartoonist publishes antisemitic political cartoon

FEBRUARY 2, 2020ByHANNAH HEPNER
THE QUESTIONABLE cartoon in ‘The New York Times.’