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While doing some more research on the awfulness of cartoonist and so-called graphic novelist Joe Sacco, I first came upon an interesting blog called Jewish Comics, where the blogmaster, Steven Bergson, provides news on comics related items involving Jews and Judaism. And I also found he had an extra blog called Israel & Israelis in Comix, that may just be a simpler blog not meant to be updated on a regular basis, but still has some info worth noting. And one of the items I found on the latter was about 2 of Sacco's cunningly crafted anti-Israel smears that he drew nearly a decade ago for 2 propaganda papers. I'm going to first post the panel provided coming from Time in March 12, 2001:
Though he mentions the 1929 bloodbath that the Mufti in Jerusalem incited with British cooperation and Muslims in Hebron perpetrated against the Jewish community, and which the British forces in the area allowed, he does not actually present any pictures here alluding to that, and seems more intent on alluding to the supposed cruelty the Israelis foist upon the "poor palestinians". The way he refers to the Tomb of Patriarchs being "underneath" the supposed Haram al-Khalil, obfuscates how Abraham originally bought the land as a burial site for his wife Sarah, and King Herod was the one who had the main structure built centuries later.
This article tells something about the Goldstein case that Sacco doesn't, and wasn't revealed for a long time either:
Then, there's the following panel published in the NYT magazine, July 3, 2003.
And here, he again does his smear routine against Israel as the aggressor against the Gaza strip.
As Bergson says:
Sacco is a most truly reprehensible man, and this only reinforces the perception that he's not interested in objectivity. What makes me really disgusted here is how he discriminated against the Jewish residents in the most ancient Jewish city that, while it's long been surpassed by Jerusalem as the number one holy city, is still a very famous and vital landmark nevertheless.
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What Joe Sacco wrote/drew about Hebron a decade ago
While doing some more research on the awfulness of cartoonist and so-called graphic novelist Joe Sacco, I first came upon an interesting blog called Jewish Comics, where the blogmaster, Steven Bergson, provides news on comics related items involving Jews and Judaism. And I also found he had an extra blog called Israel & Israelis in Comix, that may just be a simpler blog not meant to be updated on a regular basis, but still has some info worth noting. And one of the items I found on the latter was about 2 of Sacco's cunningly crafted anti-Israel smears that he drew nearly a decade ago for 2 propaganda papers. I'm going to first post the panel provided coming from Time in March 12, 2001:
Though he mentions the 1929 bloodbath that the Mufti in Jerusalem incited with British cooperation and Muslims in Hebron perpetrated against the Jewish community, and which the British forces in the area allowed, he does not actually present any pictures here alluding to that, and seems more intent on alluding to the supposed cruelty the Israelis foist upon the "poor palestinians". The way he refers to the Tomb of Patriarchs being "underneath" the supposed Haram al-Khalil, obfuscates how Abraham originally bought the land as a burial site for his wife Sarah, and King Herod was the one who had the main structure built centuries later.This article tells something about the Goldstein case that Sacco doesn't, and wasn't revealed for a long time either:
Other elements of the picture that Rabbi Dr. Simons informs us about include that the metal detector at the East Gate, where most of the Arabs entered that Friday Purim morning, was damaged the night before. An unusually large number of Arabs came to the Machpela that Friday - some 500 men and 300 women. Only a handful of the men were searched, and not one of the women. After the Goldstein incident, three automatic weapons were found in the Machpela - other than Goldstein's weapon - including one wrapped in an Arab keffiya (headdress). All these elements point to a planned attack on the Jews at the Cave of Machpela that Purim morning.Is it possible this was a set-up or something?
Then, there's the following panel published in the NYT magazine, July 3, 2003.
And here, he again does his smear routine against Israel as the aggressor against the Gaza strip.As Bergson says:
Generally speaking, Sacco tends to portray Israelis (and, in particular, Israeli politicians and soldiers) as cruel, manipulative, sadist outsiders who are oppressing the indigenous, caring, freedom-fighter Palestinians.Speaking as someone who served in the army himself when he was 19-21 years old, I figure that could include me too, even though I never served in a combat unit (I was only in a supplies job).
Sacco is a most truly reprehensible man, and this only reinforces the perception that he's not interested in objectivity. What makes me really disgusted here is how he discriminated against the Jewish residents in the most ancient Jewish city that, while it's long been surpassed by Jerusalem as the number one holy city, is still a very famous and vital landmark nevertheless.
- Disgrace: Joe Sacco's Gaza Propaganda Wins Award In Oregon
The Oregonian says: Joe Sacco's "Footnotes in Gaza," the presumptive favorite, won the first Graphic Literature Award Monday night at the 25th annual Oregon Book Awards at the Gerding Theater. Better late than never.Ugh, and they even make their own...
- Both Martin Wisse And The Atlantic Blow It
A left-wing writer named Martin Wisse has attacked another writer for the Atlantic, because she wouldn't include any works by the anti-Israel cartoonist Joe Sacco in her listing of 10 best examples of graphic nonfiction. But then, she herself is blowing...
- The Misleading View Of Sarah Glidden
I'd written about the would-be graphic novelist Sarah Glidden here and here on TAB, about her morally equivalent propaganda called How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less (and also about another propaganda strip she drew called The Waiting Room),...
- Joe Sacco Gives Graphic Novels A Bad Name
The Toronto Star pays lip service to lefty propagandist Joe Sacco, master of anti-Israel propaganda, and begins by letting us know that: Joe Sacco, like any veteran foreign correspondent, yearns to be where the action is. A part of him would have liked...
- What About Jewish Rights To Traverse Arab Neighborhoods?
Hagai Segal writes on Ynet about the sadness of segregation: Arab Israelis bitterly complained last week that the IDF forbids them from entering the Jewish street in Hebron. Despite the security motive behind the ban (security alone and nothing else,)...