Sunday 3 February 2013

British Hamodia Reprints Anti-Israel Cartoon But Blurs Out Women's Faces

Via  http://ifyoutickleus.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/just-another-brick-in-wall.html

That's right. Hamodia felt the need to blur out the faces of dying Arab women in a cartoon because in the mid of haredim showing those anguished faces – or the faces and bodies of any women – would not be tznius, modest.
 

The original Sunday Times Gerald Scarfe Anti-Netanyahu Cartoon published last week:



Here's the cartoon as the haredi newspaper Hamodia's British edition reprinted it this week – with women's faces blurred out:



NETANYAHU CARTOON PORTRAYS HIM AS A RACIST CUNT. 
The first real political cartoons were drawn back in the early 1500's. Looking less like our modern cartoons and more like detailed illustrations, some of the earliest political cartoons made use of familiar characters and stories to appeal to the peasants in a way that they could easily understand. One of these early cartoons shows the scene where Jesus throws the peddlers, hawkers and Jewish money lenders out of the temple, a Bible story that all onlookers would easily recognize http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Blood_libel



BIBI NETANYAHU'S SON ORBITS

Ricardo Netanyahu was given the unique opportunity to admire the earth from above with a goodwill gesture from the Iranian Space Agency. 

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