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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

Letters to the Editor May 1, 2019: A sign of the ‘Times’

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

MAY 1, 2019ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
New York Times cartoon depicting Netanyahu as a guide dog with Trump

Over 100 people protest 'New York Times' antisemitism

'The New York Times' has since dropped the syndication service that supplied the antisemitic cartoon.

APRIL 30, 2019ByILANIT CHERNICK
THE NEW York Times Building in Manhattan

NYT publishes another antisemitic cartoon, days after global outrage

The recent cartoon presents a blind Netanyahu taking a selfie, days after a cartoon presenting him as a dog leading U.S. President Donald Trump.

APRIL 30, 2019ByHAGAY HACOHEN
Picture of the cartoon from the New York Times paper

No Holds Barred: The Old York Times

The Internet and social media has become a cesspool filled with antisemitic websites, posts and comments that reinforce, encourage and publicize Jew-hatred.

APRIL 29, 2019BySHMULEY BOTEACH
THE NEW York Times Building in Manhattan

Israeli cartoonist mocks New York Times antisemitic cartoon

The cartoon included an apparently blind US President Donald Trump wearing a yamulke while being led by a dog with the face if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Star of David collar.

APRIL 29, 2019ByTAMAR URIEL-BEERI
The sun peaks over the New York Times Building in New York August 14, 2013

Cartoonist behind 'NYT' caricature has history of controversy

António Moreira Antunes drew ire with 1983 award-winning depiction of Israel and Lebanon.

APRIL 29, 2019ByAMY SPIRO
The New York Times cartoon by António Moreira Antunes

Flood of condemnations of New York Times for antisemitic cartoon

Congressmen join former ambassador to Israel and journalists in slamming the newspaper.

APRIL 29, 2019BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
The headquarters of the New York Times is pictured on 8th Avenue in New York

Topple, roll, bang! Museum unveils Rube Goldberg exhibit

The eccentric cartoonist known for drawing diagrams of long-winded and elaborate contraptions will be memoralized in Philadelphia.

OCTOBER 10, 2018BySTEPHAN SALISBURY/THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
One of Rube Goldberg's inventions

Real superhero: 90-year-old Holocaust survivor made Comic-Con appearance

Ruth Goldschmiedova Sax, 90, who survived three Nazi concentration camps, was the main draw of a panel on “Art During the Holocaust."

JULY 30, 2018ByJTA
Attendees arrive in costume at the pop culture convention Comic Con in San Diego, California, U.S. July 21, 2018.

Cartoon mocking Erdogan lands four top university graduates in jail

Human rights groups say the Turkish government has grown increasingly intolerant of opposition voices since a failed military coup in July 2016.

JULY 11, 2018ByREUTERS
TURKISH PRESIDENT Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during a protest against the recent killings of Palestinian protesters on the Gaza-Israel border and the US embassy move to Jerusalem, in Istanbul, Turkey on May 18.