Caricature

WATCH: IRGC-linked media shares propaganda video using Lego, blaming Israel-US for Minab school

Iran’s Revayat-e Fath institute's propaganda video uses Lego models to blame Israel and the US for the Minab strike and shows "retaliatory" attacks on Cyprus, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Iraq.

MARCH 10, 2026|ByJAMES GENN

IRGC propaganda showing officers planning missile launches towards Tel Aviv, created using Lego, March 10, 2026.

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.”

JANUARY 8, 2026|ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA

The Guardian apologizes for running antisemitic cartoon of ex-BBC chairman

Former BBC chairman Richard Sharp resigned after it was revealed he failed to declare that he had helped Boris Johnson secure a large loan.

APRIL 30, 2023|ByARIELLA MARSDEN

Maurice de Hond depicted as a puppet master in the Volkskrant newspaper in the Netherlands on April 19, 2021.

Dutch daily apologizes for drawing Jewish pollster as a puppet master

The caricature depicted a leering Maurice de Hond holding a set of marionette strings. The editor in chief said it recall[s] too many memories of anti-Semitic caricatures of the Nazi period."

APRIL 20, 2021|ByCNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA

Erdogan: Countries attacking Islam want to relaunch Crusades

The cartoon on the cover of Charlie Hebdo, showed Erdogan sitting in a white T-shirt and underpants, holding a canned drink along with a woman wearing an Islamic hijab.

OCTOBER 28, 2020ByREUTERS

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech during the re-opening of the Ottoman-era Yildiz Hamidiye mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, August 4, 2017

Democratic PAC mailers depict Jewish GOP House candidate clutching money

“The mail pieces have nothing to do with David Richter’s religion, and everything to do with the fact he ran a company into the ground,” Komar, the super PAC’s independent expenditure director said.

OCTOBER 5, 2020ByBEN SALES/JTA

A series of mailers show New Jersey Republican congressional candidate David Richter clutching or surrounded by $100 bills.

Rivlin launches caricatures exhibit to celebrate his 81st birthday

Caricatures are part of the fabric of our vibrant civil society, Rivlin said, “a strong society which is not afraid of criticism – even biting and pointed criticism.”

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020ByGREER FAY CASHMAN