Cartoonist sacked after being accused of anti-Semitism

[Violet_Crumble]

An award-winning cartoonist dumped by New Zealand's biggest newspaper because of his drawings on the Middle East conflict said he stood by his work and rejected an editor's right to direct what he could or could not draw.

Malcolm Evans, twice named as the country's cartoonist of the year, says he was sacked by The New Zealand Herald after the newspaper received complaints from Jews about his cartoons on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.

Evans, who denied that his cartoons were anti-Semitic, said while he accepted an editor's right to reject a cartoon, he did not accept an editor's right to direct what he should draw.

He said the paper's editor-in-chief, Gavin Ellis, had told him to stop submitting cartoons on Israel.

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The Waikato Times newspaper quoted Auckland rabbi Jeremy Lawrence saying he believed the cartoons lacked balance in their portrayal of Israeli-Palestinian relations and had double standards.

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I've never seen anything by this cartoonist but I found his website and there's an archive of his international affairs cartoons here...

http://www.evanscartoons.com/_international/_int_archive.htm

This one sums up the Road Map so well....

http://www.evanscartoons.com/_international/25062003.htm



Violet...

[Dhalgren]

1. The truth

has a funny way of very often being "anti-semitic". It's like calling someone "anti-american", because they oppose the American policies in Iraq or elsewhere. Someone can stand up and say 'Israel is wrong to be doing what they are doing!' And that statement is not "anti-semitic". This is ridiculous.

[Resistance]

2. sounds like the same rhetoric

used by people who are blind to the ongoing bloody aggression committed by Israel.

[rock]

3. Criticizing Israel for what it does is not anti-semetic

Criticizing them for who they are, would be, but this doesn't seem to be the case here.

[mike_c]

4. this one sums up the whole situation nicely....

http://www.evanscartoons.com/_international/23082002.htm

[rini]

5. The firing

seems like a censorship problem for NZ. What is your reason for posting this on a generally American site? Of course the 3-10th Jews in a country of 4,017,681 must control the country's media because this man must never have angered his editor before for any reason. Obviously it is a Jewish conspiracy. Just as the 3-4 million Israelis in the midst of 300 million Arabs are indeed a threat to Arab hogemeny.

[Violet_Crumble]

6. I need a reason to post something about the I/P conflict in the I/P forum?

Knock me over with a feather. I thought the reason for posting it here was pretty damn obvious. If I posted it in GD or LBN it'd get moved down here pretty quick smart because it's related to the I/P conflict. Maybe you should read DU's rules before asking such strange questions?

I detect an attempt at very clumsy sarcasm, so let's get these out of the way. There was nothing in the article to suggest that anyone but you thinks that there's a Jewish conspiracy. The article showed how some people use anti-semitism accusations to try to shut down discussion of the I/P conflict. Yr implication that this cartoonist must have angered his editor in some way unrelated to the I/P conflict previously is also totally unsupported by anything in the article. And there's no such thing as Arab 'hogemony' (sic). Do you even know what hegemony means? Do a bit of reading on US hegemony and you might get some clue as to what it actually is...

Violet...

[durutti]

7. Anti-Semitism is always used to silence critics of Israel

Just as accusations of Communist sympathies (and now terrorist sympathies) were once used to silence liberals.

There are critics of Israel who are actually anti-Semites. But there are many more who are not.

Anyway, anti-Semitism is a bit of a misnomer. Arabs are also Semites.