Ian H
Shaman
Which one? Or does any one mean they all are?
I believe some were shown upthread.
Which one? Or does any one mean they all are?
One of those few people you never hear a bad thing about and who has successfully crossed several generations (my 22 year old daughter thinks he’s amazing)
But what if Gerald Scarfe had drawn it, with his usual pointy noses and angry faces?
I think it would have gone unnoticed, because that's his style.
It would have gone un-noted for antisemitic tropes, as Scarfe doesn't do the tropes (as far as I've ever been aware), just righteous viciousness.
FWIW, I think Polanski deserved ridiculing for his reaction, but Brookes' recourse to witting or unwitting tropes spoilt his point, so even if you don't accept my argument (despite my generally being very sceptical about how the 'antisemitism' accusation is often deployed), his carelessness (at best) is self-defeating, with the focus being on the tropes rather than Polanski's statement.
Lets see how it pans out.
It's a deal.
Turns out Scarfe had some past controversy in around 2913 about a cartoon of Neyenyahu building a wall out of pieces of dead Palestinians.
It's actually rather prescient, and he'd have probably got away with it today, given that against all expectations Neyenhahu has actually turned out to be a genocidal zealot after all. Who knew.
I think the issue was the "trope" in the depiction of Netenyahiu, rather than using Palestinians as mortar (which is fair game, it seems).That's the good kind of trouble cartoonists should get in.
One of those few people you never hear a bad thing about and who has successfully crossed several generations (my 22 year old daughter thinks he’s amazing)
Disgraceful anti-Semitic trope from the BBC.