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Editor's Pick: Cartoon of the week: 5 April 2009
Source: by Oliphant© - Published in various newspapers, March/April 2009
Oliphant’s latest Gaza cartoon has reignited the firing lines between antisemitism and the political all over again.
Some suggested reading links to this include:
• Have a look at the comments to Anthony Lerman, “Antisemitic, or just offensive?” guardian.co.uk, 2 April 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/02/tony-lerman-oliphant-cartoon-israel
• A short visual analysis comparing cartoons and representation of Israel, by Benjamin Kerstein, “The Awful Anti-Semitism of The Washington Post’s Pat Oliphant” newledger.com, 31 March 2009
http://newledger.com/2009/03/the-awful-anti-semitism-of-the-washington-posts-pat-oliphant/
• Throw the words “oliphant cartoon” into a search engine and scan the reactions.. (say for example ninja.com and yahoo )
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