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Banned by the Guardian
On 17th July 2019, Steve Bell fired off an angry email to the Guardian after his latest If… cartoon strip was pulled. It was the third in a series, lampooning Tom Watson and his search for antisemitic tropes.
Here’s the email Steve sent to the Guardian, following their refusal to publish. The Guardian, it seems, feared legal action from Tom Watson MP if they proceeded. (Watson was at that time, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, under Jeremy Corbyn. Watson was a child of the right- there to keep the blue Labour gang happy).
But for many years the Guardian has published Steve’s cartoons, which lampoon all politicians on a regular basis. Why make an exception to this one? It’s long been known that Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland is a Zionist and he seems to be quite influential in the Guardian hierarchy. Might he have been behind spiking this? What is clear, though, is that the Guardian is fearful of its Zionist readers boycotting the paper. So much for impartiality!
Guardian cartoon row: How antisemitism smears are intended to throttle the left (substack.com)
Steve Bell Fired- October 2023
Steve Bell sacked by Guardian in antisemitism row over Netanyahu cartoon – BBC News
for this cartoon:
Private Eye
On the subject of cartoons, Private Eye has published this cartoon from Bestie
Mind you, it was at Christmas time. Previously, they had published a nasty lampoon of Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL). Private Eye had completely ignored the whole bogus anti-Semitism charade until Corbyn announced he was standing down, and then in January 2020 they went nuts, parroting all the stupid things that the mainstream media said.
Many, including JVL and Pete Gregson, wrote into Private Eye(PE) to complain; their letters were never published. And in their Election Special of Dec 2019 PE described Chris Williamson as a “raving anti-Semite” which some of us also wrote in to complain about (our letters were again never published). Perhaps editor Ian Hislop was showing where his true loyalties lie.
Great cartoons on Palestine- Latuff and Sabaaneh
See more Carlos Latuff cartoons on his official cartoon site and here on his own site
See more Mohammad Sabaaneh cartoons (he did the CABA logo)