Sharp, Caricaturist, Views Jabotinsky

Found in the PM newspaper of June 25, 1940, five weeks before Ze'ev Jabotinsky's death:

Bio information:

Leon Schliefer was born in 1900 in Germany. He served in the German army at the end of World War I (1914-1918). He attended the Academy for Arts and Industry there and continued his studies in Kraków, Poland, Berlin, and Munich. After service in World War I, he became a newspaper artist in Berlin and a well-known etcher. He became a political cartoonist and his work was published in the anti-Nazi press. He also specialized in courtroom trial sketches. After the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in 1933, Schliefer emigrated to the United States. He changed his name to William Sharp* and continued his career as an editorial cartoonist and illustrator. His work was published in the New York Times, Life Magazine, and other publications. He died in 1961, age sixty-one years.

He lived in Forest Hills. He was one of the main illustrators for the comic adaptations of novels that King Features distributed in cooperation with the Book-of-the-Month Club. Sharp illustrated 'The Seventh Cross' (1942), 'Combined Operations' (1943), 'Into Occupied France and Out' (1943) and 'Betrayal from the East' (1944).

A 1933 example:

* In Yiddish, "sharp" is שאַרף (scharf).

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A "With Apologies" Cartoon

Borrowed from A.J. Singleton in The Spectator:

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On Cockroaches, Two-Legged Animals and...Dogs

You cannot compare the Arabs, to, for example, cockroaches or Arab terrorists to "two-legged creatures" a la Raful and Menachem Begin but Likud voters can be compared to dogs, right?

Short blog posts are important, too.

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Scary

Last week, a sign showing a guillotine was held aloft at the anti-"Netanyahu-is-Corrupt" demos:

Now we have Eran Volkowsly's caricature today in Haaretz, with left-wing humor:

A double-bladed battle axe.  

And, by the way, Persians and Mamelukes used them and they were termed tabarzin.

The text reads:

This will scare them

What scares me is either the obliviousness of Israel's leftists - and that includes most of the media which provided protective cover for that guillotine by pooh-poohing the whole incident (in democracies we change leader wither through the ballot or a judicial process) - to the seriousness of introducing bloody violence into the public discourse, something they always blame the right-wing for doing or, the possible encouragement Volkowsky lends to even worse characterizations.

Netanyahu was displayed with a noose last year.  That was "art".

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked was drawn naked.  Art.

It keeps getting worse.  And the Left demands morality and ethics in public life.

And they are hypocritical as when President Rivlin was portrayed in a keffiyeh because that's as we all "know", is incitement to murder.

Sure, for Volkowsky and his editor, it's "funny".  Funny as only the Left defines humor.

That's scary.  Really.

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Sharp Incitement

Here:

Why does FB tolerate this?

Screenshot:

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Temple Mount Political Caricatures

Recent caricatures from a Palestinian Authority newspaper:

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Stuck on the Temple Mount

I had uploaded Arab caricatures and cartoons with anti-Semitic themes earlier this year.

Another now:

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Caricaturing Jews

From Al-Hayat:

and pay attention to the eating detail:

From Al-Ayyam:

and from Al-Houriyyah:

Considerate, cultured, captivating.

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Sean Delonas on "Land Swaps"

Found here, May 25th:-

and we all recall this one from decades ago:

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One More Helen Thomas Caricature

And is Lady Gaga getting into the act?

Saw the Flotilla Caricatures?

(Kippah tip: EV)


Loads more here.


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If You Missed The Helen Thomas Caricatures...

Found here.


(Kippah tip: BT)


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Caricature Commentary on Goldstone Report

A Comment on Politics

One Is Racist and The Other Is...?

You might recall this caricature published in the New York Post back in February:



As detailed, the cartoon, by Sean Delonas, was partially inspired by an actual chimpanzee attack which occurred at the same time as the signing of the Obama stimulus bill and was considered to possess racial undertones.

The Post editor-in-chief Col Allan claimed the cartoon was a parody of a current news event but Al Sharpton's response was that "it is troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of African-Americans as being synonymous with monkeys... Being that the stimulus bill has been the first legislative victory of President Barack Obama (the first African American president) and has become synonymous with him it is not a reach to wonder are they inferring that a monkey wrote the last bill?"

Now, why did I mention that?

This caricature:



(I scanned it as the connection wasn't working. Could Haaretz have disconnected it?)

How would you categorize a caricature that portrays Avigdor Liberman, Israel's Foreign Minister, as a dog on a leash?

If it was publish in an Arab newspaper, in a Neo-Nazi newspaper, we would probably hear of protests but it's in the Haaretz newspaper.

It's kosher, shamefully so.

Durn That Click Button

In the followup to that vicious Oliphant caricature, the New York Times regrets web technology:

Subject: Re: Oliphant Crosses Line Between Political Satire and Incitement to Hatred
To:
From: publisher@nytimes.com
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:57:01 -0400

The offending cartoon by Oliphant was not and will not be published in The New York Times. It did not appear on our Web site either. What did appear there, by a long-standing contractual arrangement with a company called uclick.com, is an "Oliphant" button. This button on the cartoons page took people who clicked on it on March 25 to that cartoon, which is now relegated to the Oliphant archive.

Nobody at The Times, therefore, made any decision to "publish" the cartoon. But, though the click gets you to a uclick.com page, regrettably in this case, the banner on the page says "The New York Times .....Cartoons."

We are currently reviewing that arrangement.

Thank you for contacting The New York Times. We appreciate your readership -- and your taking the time to write.

A Pro-Israel Ramirez Caricature?

Found here.

But I thought Ramirez



was not all that favorable to Israel. And you remember this one:



and there's this