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Wednesday, April 28, 2004

The Cowardly Cartoonist

Global is showing a documentary on the Jenin non-massacre this evening (check local listings). Rick McGinnis says the film contains this stunning admission from a British editorial cartoonist:

...this British cartoonist tries to explain why the members of his association voted the "Sharon eating Palestinian babies" editorial cartoon the best of the year. The interviewer asked him why no one draws the same sort of thing about Arafat.

"Because Jews don't issue fatwas," he says, sheepishly.

Posted by Damian Penny on April 28, 2004 in International Affairs | Permalink

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