My Guess on the Firing of Avi Katz, Caricaturist

One story is here.

The reason for the discontinuing of caricaturist Avi Katz's free-lance employment is

 depiction of Israeli Jewish leaders as pigs

Same here

A veteran Israeli cartoonist was cut loose on Tuesday from the magazine he worked at for nearly three decades over an illustration portraying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud lawmakers as pigs

Another variation:

Mocking celebration of nation-state law, cartoonist Avi Katz depicted Netanyahu as a pig

And it becomes an issue of free speech, as if the Report doesn't have the freedom to employ who it thinks represents the values of its magazine:

Avi Katz’s controversial illustration depicting prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other politicians as pigs defended on freedom of speech grounds

The cartoon:

Okay, it would have been better if he had added some other of the barn animals, you know, for diversity, even if the pigs rule:

But if I had to guess, it was the message

(Note: reproduction for journalistic purposes only)

To interpret the law as discriminatory or as relegating one section of the populace above or below another is simply wrong. The law restated elements of the Declaration of independence and incorporated them as legislation in the form of a Basic Law.

Nothing new intrinsically was done.

Mr. Katz, in my estimation, perverted reality. He did not engage in satire but in false propaganda.

But that's just my guess.

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Haaretz now informs us a

similar caricature published over 30 years ago did not stir the same sort of scandal. That caricature was the work of Israel Prize laureate Yisrael Zeev and was published by Haaretz in May 1980 under the headline "Arik's Animal Farm."

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Counting for a Minyan

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Ahmadinejad Pricks the Jews

Great satire (thanks BT!):-

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blamed Jews today for the "global scourge of erectile dysfunction."

In a speech broadcast on state television, the Islamic firebrand claimed an international Jewish cabal is provoking male impotence though chemicals in bottled water and then making billions by treating the syndrome with pharmaceutical drugs like Viagra...

..."One of the most insidious new methods of global Zionist oppression is the effort to sap the life-forces of non-Jews around the world," he thundered.  "According to my closest advisers, almost 95 percent of Iranian men now have difficulty achieving and maintaining an erection. I have to admit that on very rare occasions, I have had such trouble myself, despite my legendary virility...

..."Jewish interests have taken financial control of all the bottled water companies in the world," he explained. "They have used the dominance to slip chemicals into our bloodstreams, which destroy our ability to become erect...they have created a cure for this induced disease - drugs such as Viagra, Cialis, and Levitra.
"Hard working men all over the world are spending billions on such cures just to keep themselves sexually viable. Many are facing complete financial ruin. "And who sells these drugs? Just look at these pharmaceutical companies: Pfizer, Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Glaxo Smith Kline - these are all Jewish names!

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Left Out of the Zionist Conspiracy

When The Onion assisted combating anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism:

Local Jew Feels Left Out Of Worldwide Jewish Conspiracy

...for Seth Nussbaum, it will be just another lonely evening.

"For some reason, they've decided to leave me out of the worldwide Jewish conspiracy," said Nussbaum, a 34-year-old computer programmer. "And I can't say it doesn't hurt."

While his fellow Jews are controlling the flow of billions of dollars of international currency and brokering multi million-dollar entertainment deals, on this quiet night Nussbaum is making himself a frozen pizza and watching ER, far removed from any money beyond the $28,000 annual salary he receives from his job at Cyntech Industries.

...Unlike millions of other Jews around the world, Nussbaum holds no sway over the media, has no powerful friends within the Wall Street banking community or the Trilateral Commission, and has never run a major Hollywood studio.

...And despite being a regular subscriber to The New York Times for seven years, Nussbaum has no powerful connections among the Jews who own that and every other newspaper in the United States.

"As a left-leaning Jew, I should enjoy vast influence over the press. I should be able use the papers and television stations I own to forward my biased, liberal Jewish agenda and get Israel-supporting Democratic candidates elected to Congress," said Nussbaum, sitting on the old futon he uses as a couch. "But somehow, that's just not the case."

Spurned by his own kind, Nussbaum has not even been able to gain admittance into a secondary world-domination conspiracy like the Masons. "They turned down my application," he said, sighing deeply, "when they found out I was Jewish. I guess for now I'll just have to resign myself to being Seth Nussbaum, computer programmer and powerless Jew.

Too true.

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Some Jesus Humor

No, nothing derogatory.

It's just that if you read this article, you'll come across this theory:

if, as many Arabs and their supporters claim, that Jews didn’t really reside in "Palestine" (or, if they did, it was fleetingly and nothing was left, not even all the archaeology being found annually) and in any case, the "Palestinian Arabs" were here first as Jebusites, Canaanites and whatnot, that the history of this land is Arab, that the Temple was not located here, that Moses was a Muslim leading his people out of Egypt, and so forth and so froth, then it must be that the high priest who condemned Jesus to his death on a cross of crucifiction was also an Arab (and one who spoke Aramaic!) and those gathered in front of Pontius Pilatus’s palace, who shouted out “Crucify him, crucify him!”, were, by your logic, were none other than..."Palestinians".

Well, I am not sure that this is really funny, but who I am to judge humor.

At least we Jews aren't guilty of anything that would upset Christians.


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Second Best Headline This Week

With Libya's Ascendant Islamists: 'Don't Get the Wrong Idea'

TIME


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Satire on Arabs Killing Arabs (Is Nothing Sacred?)

Is anti-Arab satire allowed?

Like this:-

UN deadlocked over Arab-killing rights

THE United Nations Security Council remains deadlocked over which countries are allowed to kill Arab civilians.

Russia and China have vetoed a plan which would have stopped Syrian President Bashar al-Assad shelling the city of Homs, setting a dangerous precedent of allowing Arabic leaders to kill their own people and threatening Western domination of the Arab extermination market.

Experts believe the veto signals a challenge to the long-held British and American monopoly of Arab slaughter and that the Chinese now plan to move aggressively into this lucrative field.

A US State Department spokesman said: "Ten years ago it was the French trying to stop our invasion of Iraq, which has since proved to be an unprecedented, decade-long bloodbath of success.

"Now we're supposed to watch Arabs murdered in the streets by guns, mortars, and rockets at the hands of the Syrian Army when they could be humanely executed by remote control. And we're not even sure they're killing the right Arabs."

A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We've been killing Arabs since the 11th Century and all of a sudden we're supposed to ask for permission? Are we supposed to ask for permission to go to the toilet as well?"

The US spokesman added: "We have to fight constantly for Israel's right to kill any Arabs that look at them funny, and now this.

"Sometimes I wonder if the UN wants us to kill any Arabs at all."

P.S. I'm working on another which needs to be adapted.

Soon.

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Who Said Germans Have No Humor?

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Ramadan Irreverance

Found here.


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Saw the Flotilla Caricatures?

(Kippah tip: EV)


Loads more here.


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True, Or A Spoof

My good friend Ben wants to know if this is true, or a spoof:-


There are rumors that the MV Rachel Corrie is returning to Ireland and that a massive flotilla for Gilad Shalit will be organized to sail into Gaza. They demand Gilad Shalit be given the minimum rights according to the Geneva Convention that is recognized throughout the civilized world.

Throughout Europe many government politicians and news media are condemning the fact that the Iranian-backed Hamas government in Gazahas not allowed any visits to Gilad Shalit since his capture from International Committee of the Red Cross. They have not allowed or accepted any Geneva Convention for a prisoner. His humanitarian rights being violated are strongly protested.

There are many massive demonstrations throughout Europe, the US and many other countries around the globe. A massive demonstration in Istanbul demanded Gilad Shalit right to be visited by the ICRC had become violent and an unknown amount of people have been injured.

Since the people who plan on being aboard are peace activists and law-abiding humanitarians, they recognize that the Government of Gaza is run by the Hamas. Though they were not truly elected, the Hamas through the military takeover of Gaza is today the recognized government of Gaza. Spokesman for the new flotilla group, Achmed Kishme’en Tu’hash , is quoted as saying "The era of justice and Islamic rule has arrived."

There has been UN condemnation of the brutal repressions of these massive demonstrations and government leaders are trying to negotiate and calm this situation.

Millions throughout the world are waiting to see the Free Gilad Shalit Flotilla set sail.

United States Progressing On Thwarting Terrorism

Well, not quite but the sharks are being taken care of:-

Global Conservation of Migratory Sharks
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
February 19, 2010

The United States has joined the Philippines and forty other nations in adopting a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to promote the conservation and management of migratory sharks...The MOU was negotiated under the auspices of the Convention on Migratory Species to foster scientific research on, and to enhance the conservation and management of, seven initial species of migratory sharks: the Basking, Great White, Longfin and Shortfin Mako, Porbeagle, northern hemisphere Spiny Dogfish and Whale sharks. Signatories to the MOU may subsequently include other shark species in need of conservation.

...the negotiations successfully navigated several technically complex and challenging issues in order to reach agreement. These included the number of species to be covered, the legal nature of the MOU, and the relationship between the MOU and the overarching Conservation of Migratory Sharks.

Maybe they are at least practicing on sharks in preparation for bigger fish?

Does Depression or Recession Indicate Sexual Difficulties?

Zalmi sent me this (and I've slightly edited it):-

STRIKING SUICIDE BOMBERS

Muslim suicide bombers in Britain are set to begin a three-day strike on Monday in a dispute over the number of virgins they are entitled to in the afterlife. Emergency talks with Al Qaeda management have so far failed to produce an agreement.

The unrest began last Tuesday when Al Qaeda announced that the number of virgins a suicide bomber would be entitled to following his death will be cut by 25% next January from 72 to only 60. The rationale for the cut was the increase in recent years of the number of suicide bombings and a subsequent shortage of virgins in the afterlife.

The suicide bombers' union, the British Organisation of Occupational Martyrs (or B.O.O.M.) responded with a statement that this was unacceptable to its members and immediately balloted for strike action. General secretary Abdullah Amir told the press, "Our members are literally working themselves to death in the cause of jihad. We don't ask for much in return but to be treated like this by management is a kick in the teeth and even lower."

Mr Amir accepted the limited availability of virgins but pointed out that the cutbacks were expected to be borne entirely by the workforce and not by management. "Last Christmas Abu Hamza alone was awarded an annual bonus of 1,000 virgins," complains Amir. "And you can be sure they'll all be pretty ones too. How can Al Qaeda afford that for members of the management but not 72 for the people who do the real work?"

Speaking from the shed in the West Midlands where he currently resides, Al Qaeda chief executive Osama Ich-bin Layen explained,

"We sympathise with our workers' concerns but Al Qaeda is simply not in a position to meet their demands. In fact, any position is one we're not in right now. They are simply not accepting the realities of modern-day jihad, in a competitive marketplace. Thanks to Western depravity, there is now among Muslims a chronic shortage of virgins in the afterlife. It's a straight choice between reducing expenditure and laying people off. I don't like cutting wages but I'd hate to have to tell 3,000 of my staff that they won't be able to blow themselves up."

He defended management bonuses by claiming these were necessary to attract good fanatical clerics. "How am I supposed to attract the best people if I can't compete with the private sector?" asked Mr. Ich Bin-Layen.

Talks broke down this morning after management's last-ditch proposal of a virgin-sharing scheme was rejected outright after a failure to agree on an alternative program based on orifice allocation quotas. One virgin, who refused to be named, was quoted as saying, "This is just too much. I'm agreeing not to anything like that. It's too much to handle".

Unless some sort of agreement is reached over the weekend, suicide bombers will begin to remove their explosives' belts at midday on Monday. Most branches are supporting the strike. Only the North London branch, which has a different union, is likely to continue working. However, some members of that branch will only be using waist-down explosives in order to express solidarity with their striking brethren.

Comic Relief

Go here for a laugh about Charles of LGF.

And here, too.

This NOT A Congratulatory Kiss To A Nobel Prize Winner

Okay, here's some real on-the-spot humor which I didn't draw:





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Some visitors - and definitely one commentator - may dislike the above imagery and presume I am racist. Since I tell jokes about Jews, I want to be clear: I am not an antisemite.

Now that that is out of the way, consider this item I just caught and ask yourselves, did I post above perhaps a work of art? -

A crucified ape and a black Jesus sitting on an electric chair are on show at an art exhibition in a former church.

The controversial works are part of a wider exhibition of 60 pieces that are being shown for two weeks from Wednesday at the former Holy Trinity Church, now known as One Marylebone, in central London.

Among the more controversial pieces on display in the historic church, which was built in 1825 by Sir John Soane, are two from Paul Fryer, whose works include an ape being crucified on a cross and a waxwork of a black Jesus being electrocuted.

In a promotional brochure he admitted the images were “provocative”.

"(The gorilla artwork) is a reminder of our collective responsibility to protect those who are least able to protect themselves," he said.

"It features an image which I obviously realise is provocative but which I hope may evoke sadness and compassion as well as outrage.

"It would be a pity if it were to represent what we had failed to protect and the things we had lost forever as a result of that failure. Time will tell I suppose."

Joe La Placa, the curator, defended the exhibition, saying it was designed to inspire people to think and understand “deeper meanings”.

The director of All Visual Arts admitted some people would be shocked by the exhibition but rejected suggestions it was designed purely to shock.

The curator, 49, dismissed such claims as “ridiculous” and “shallow”, adding that art should “create curiosity and promote learning”.

He said the ape sculpture was designed to get people how to think how and why primates were disappearing while the Jesus sculpture got visitors thinking about how he died.

“It inspires you to connect to your maximum ability to learn and connect… I think great art heightens that,” he said.

“You don’t want to be bored, you want to be excited and say ‘wow, what’s that’. Hopefully it catches you.

“An exhibition that is just shock horror leaves you empty but great art grabs you and they make you think deeper.”

Sheikh Whatever: "Madonna Does Not Exist. She's A Mirage"

Following the news that Madonna has visited the Western Wall tunnels to view the actual foundations of the First and Second Temples, Sheikh Whatever of the Pal. Waqf Trust has announced that Madonna really doesn't exist.

"She's just a fantasy," he declared.

In making this pronouncement, the Whatever Sheikh is continuing in the propaganda line the Muslim authorities have taken that the First Temple built by Solomon and the Second Temple, first constructed by Ezra and then enlarged by Herod, simply are historically in doubt (see here and here).

Of course, this seems to be their only defense versus the Jewish claim that "Palestinian Arabs" don't really exist as a separate and distinct ethnic-national grouping.

On the other hand, MyRightWord has learned that the Sheikh has offered ten camels, three sheep and five goats - all virgins - for a front-row seat at Madonna's concert. He has revealed to his associates that "first, I'm already sticky, second, I haven't seen Tel Aviv since my last dishwashing job and third, she is my fantasy but what a fantasy".

His associates have reacted by being very cross with him.

But It's Just A Cartoon, You Say?

Found here:



Now, you know what I found funny about this?

An element of the drawer's biography:

Dave Granlund has been an editorial cartoonist, published in daily newspapers since 1977. Syndicated in 1978 with NEA-United Media, his work has appeared in over 700 newspapers; including the New York Times, Chicago Tribune and Christian Science Monitor, plus magazines such as Newsweek, and shown nationally on FoxNews.com, MSNBC.com, HBO, PBS, CNN and NBC’s Today Show...His pastimes and interests include history, astronomy, antique tractors and Swedish language studies.

You don't think he reads stories in Aftonbladet, do you?

Well, maybe. I guess it's not really funny when, with the money angle, he plays to the canard factor of Jews and US financing:

Wall Poster Games

In a previous post, I showed you a wall poster claiming that the Internet causes cancer. The proof? Gematria, the system of substituting numbers for the letters in the Hebrew alphabet.

Cancer, which is סרטן , equals 319
Internet, אנטרנט (but spelled without the yud) = 319

Well, someone has taken up the challenge:





This suggest that lettuce, חסה, equals 73

and that autism also totals up to 73.

The poster signs off (nice pun, eh?) by asserting:

There is Faith and there is Blindness.



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UPDATED (Aug. 18, 2009)

From a comment the Muqata blog:

Lurker has left a new comment on the post "Sign seen in Bnei Brak":

Oh no, here's one that's even worse:

"שוקולד" (chocolate) = 446 = "מות" (death)

Time for another pashkevil...