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An iconic Rube Goldberg cartoon, featuring one of his signature contraptions (this one, a mustache wiper), was used on a US postal stamp in 1995. (Rube Goldberg Inc./via JTA)
October 19, 2018, 3:44 am
Rube Goldberg did way more than draw those wacky machines
An exhibit that opened last week at the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia shows a surprising personal and political side of the renowned artist
By Stephen Silver
Avi Katz (Facebook)
August 1, 2018, 1:52 pm
Jerusalem Post defends axing ‘Animal Farm’ pigs cartoonist, keeps cartoon online
Amid free speech furor, editorial says Avi Katz’s nation-state law critique ‘reminiscent of antisemitic memes,’ should not have run; it remains at top of Jerusalem Report homepage
By TOI staff
Avi Katz (Facebook)
July 25, 2018, 9:43 pm
Cartoonist axed for ‘Animal Farm’ pigs drawing of Netanyahu and colleagues
Cartoon by Jerusalem Report’s Avi Katz criticizing new Jewish State law draws on selfie showing Likud lawmakers after legislation passed
By TOI staff
Self-portrait at drawing table, René Goscinny, 1948. (© Anne Goscinny)
May 23, 2018, 4:34 pm
The wild adventures of René Goscinny, Jewish inventor of Asterix and Obelix
New exhibit at London’s Jewish Museum explores the life, hardships, and providential escape from Nazi Europe of the world famous cartoonist
By Jenni Frazer
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas shown recovering in a hospital on May 22, 2018, reading a newspaper (Wafa news agency)
May 22, 2018, 4:25 pm
From hospital, Abbas shown reading newspaper with anti-Israel cartoon
Palestinian Authority president remains hospitalized for third day, no timeframe given for his discharge
By TOI staff and Agencies
A cartoon published on May 15, 2018, by German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declaring 'next year in Jerusalem' with a missile adorned with a star of David in hand after Israel won Eurovision song contest. (Screen capture: Twitter)
May 17, 2018, 10:07 pm
German paper axes cartoonist over controversial Netanyahu drawing
Sueddeutsche Zeitung’s fires Dieter Hanitzsch for refusing to apologize; country’s anti-Semitism czar says caricature recalls ‘Nazi propaganda’
By TOI staff and AP
A cartoon published on May 15, 2018, by German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declaring 'next year in Jerusalem' with a missile adorned with a star of David in hand after Israel won Eurovision song contest. (Screen capture: Twitter)
May 16, 2018, 1:44 pm
German daily draws outrage with ‘anti-Semitic’ image of Netanyahu at Eurovision
Süddeutsche Zeitung editor-in-chief apologizes for publishing cartoon of PM holding missile decorated with Star of David, but cartoonist says he is not sorry
By Michael Bachner
A cartoon published by Dutch newspaper Volkskrant in April 2018, depicting an IDF soldier shooting a Palestinian on the Gaza Border and spelling "Happy birthday to me," a reference to Israels Independence Day. (Courtesy: Simon Wiesenthal Center)
April 23, 2018, 8:41 pm
Dutch newspaper slammed for ‘anti-Semitic’ cartoon on Gaza protests
Simon Wiesenthal Center says image of IDF slaughtering Palestinians to celebrate Israel’s 70th anniversary will encourage Hamas terror, anti-Jewish sentiment in Holland
By Michael Bachner
An Israeli cartoon criticizing human rights violations in Iran, displayed next to the European Parliament in Brussels starting Wednesday, February 20, 2018. (Photo by AJC, TICP)
February 20, 2018, 3:44 pm
Snubbed by EU, Israeli cartoons slamming Iran go on display
European Parliament vetoes exhibition focusing on human rights violations in Islamic Republic as ‘too controversial’
By Michael Bachner
This Michel Kichka cartoon casts President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the new sheriffs in town. (via JTA)
February 8, 2018, 5:05 am
Israeli illustrator Michel Kichka dishes on ‘fake news’ and feeling high in NYC
The internationally syndicated illustrator speaks about leaving his native Belgium and how the First Intifada spurred him to create political cartoons
By Josefin Dolsten
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