Steve Bell has been dropped as a cartoonist by the Guardian newspaper, six months before his current contract is up, over a cartoon he submitted regarding the current Israel/Hamas conflict.
The cartoon shows Benjamin Netanyahu preparing to cut out the shape of Palestine from his own flesh with a scalpel, albeit very clumsily, as he is wearing boxing gloves. The comparison is with a famous David Irving cartoon, with President Lyndon Johnson showing off a scar in the same place on his body, in the shape of Vietnam was clear to me, without the 'after' tag. Itself based on a photo of Johnson showing off his gall bladder surgical scars to photographers.
' David Quantick: Brass Eye writer, tweeted 'I am on Steve Bell's side rather than the Guardian's who seem to have sacked him on the classic grounds of what other people might think.' Actor Tracy-Ann Oberman is currently playing Shylock in The Merchant Of Venice 1936 from the Royal Shakespeare Company on tour, set in London's Jewish district of Cable Street, which saw fascist-organised attacks in that year. She replied, simply, 'I pity you.
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