After a number of cordial email exchanges in relation to his cartoon published alongside Mike Carltons article that ended in the termination of his employment with Fairfax , Vivienne Porzsolt of JAO wrote the following to the cartoonist Glen Le Lievre on 17 August but has received no reply to date. Hi, Glen Have you actually been served with a threat of litigation for your cartoon? The news report prompted further thoughts: I am afraid that I must agree, that while your cartoon made an undeniably valid point, it was in fact anti-semitic. Your Jewish spectator of the Gaza horrors could have come out of the Nazi paper Die Sturmer. Had your Jewish figure been waving a blue and white Israeli flag and been portrayed in a style no less vitriolic but non-racist terms, I could wholeheartedly applaud your cartoon. If you were to publicly acknowledge this and apologise, I could support you and campaign for you in any litigation you may face. There is a parallel in the way Margaret Thatcher was portrayed by cartoonists. Too often, these slipped into rabid misogyny. Her politics deserved the vitriol, her gender didnt. Cartoonists inevitably face a dilemma in identifying ugly political and human realities: how to portray the perpetrators with appropriate condemnation without using racist or misogynist tropes. I hope you are able to make the public apology I suggest, and that I will be able to fully support your right to expose and challenge the iniquities of the State of Israel. Best wishes Vivienne
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 05:49:25 +0000
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