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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGuardian veteran cartoonist Steve Bell fired over this cartoon..said to be antisemetic
It's said it harkens to "pound of flesh" phrase from Shakespeare???

underpants
(191,552 posts)If they did they shouldnt fire him. The editors should have told him to do another one.
AZSkiffyGeek
(12,743 posts)hlthe2b
(110,714 posts)Not subtle... sigh
redqueen
(115,185 posts)Demovictory9
(36,799 posts)Sanity Claws
(22,219 posts)Maybe the British go to Shakespeare more readily than I do.
electric_blue68
(22,450 posts)LexVegas
(6,868 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(104,167 posts)The cartoon depicts Netanyahu preparing to cut a Gaza-shaped hole in his own abdomen with a scalpel. Netanyahu has ordered a complete siege of the Palestinian enclave of two million after Hamas militants killed hundreds of Israeli civilians over the weekend.
Link to tweet
Shylock wasn't planning on cutting his own flesh, of course.
redqueen
(115,185 posts)yardwork
(67,263 posts)In this version, Netanyahu is cutting a piece of himself out. This seems to be a direct reference to the "pound of flesh," which leads right to Shylock, an infamously anti-Semitic portrayal.
muriel_volestrangler
(104,167 posts)In the cartoon, Netanyahu is (in boxing gloves, so it's going to be messy) about to inflict the scar on himself.
yardwork
(67,263 posts)malaise
(286,864 posts)Thanks for clarity as always.
I expect Bell to be reinstated unless he chooses to leave.
Knowledge is power.
BlueCheeseAgain
(1,983 posts)Is Netanyahu about to operate on himself? Why is he wearing heavy mittens?
ret5hd
(21,619 posts)Although it will be self-injurious, Netanyahu is preparing, in a very ham-fisted way, to get his pound of flesh.
Demovictory9
(36,799 posts)The mittens imply thst the Gaza syriked wont be surgical but ragged and destructive
jmowreader
(52,546 posts)electric_blue68
(22,450 posts)GuppyGal
(1,748 posts)?????
yardwork
(67,263 posts)DET
(2,117 posts)I dont get this cartoon at all, but I dont personally view it as antisemitic. I showed it to my husband, however, and he thought that it was (hes Jewish). In any case, its a crappy cartoon.
Takket
(23,091 posts)Oneironaut
(6,074 posts)You cannot criticize Israel without being an anti-Semite. Thats a fact! Any criticism of Israel means that you support the terrorists, who are the bad guys.