Not My Democracy

Modern Democracy: What's worse than inconclusive elections? Turns out to be when one side wins!

Israel's PR Problem

Israel 2023: In its 75th Jubilee year Israel has to deal with the reaction of American Jews to the new government of the Jewish State.

An historic turning point in the history of the Jewish People?

What do YOU think?

Dummies

The antisemitic lie that has killed more Jews than any other is the widely-held belief that "Jews are smart." * * * WE (the LSW and I) NEED YOUR HELP!

WE NEED SOME "SMART" SUPPORTERS (JEWS and NON JEWS) TO WIN OUR BATTLE!

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Why?!

A simple question: Why are American Jews NOT considered to be a minority? * * *
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Serving the Kool-Aid to Diaspora Jews.

According to Isi Liebler: "what is truly macabre is the behavior of sections of Diaspora Jewish communities. Fringe groups in both the U.S. and U.K. have been publicly demonstrating in favor of the Hamas killers and even holding surreal recitations of the mourner’s kaddish, naming the individuals killed. This is the equivalent of reciting kaddish for dead SS soldiers who shared the same genocidal objectives against the Jews as Hamas – truly a chilul Hashem, a desecration of God’s name.Even beyond this demented fringe, many Jews are publicly expressing grief at the death of the terrorists. Yet they do not express any sadness that our adversaries are obscenely providing human sacrifices by positioning women and children in the line of fire to capitalize on casualties so as to demonize Israel for public relations purposes.
Rabbinical sermons have referred to the bulk of those killed as innocents, even though Hamas leaders themselves claim that 85% of them were their operatives. On May 14 at its graduation and ordination ceremony, the Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College shamelessly chose as its guest speaker the fiercely anti-Zionist author Michael Chabon.
Anti-Defamation League head Jonathan Greenblatt wrote that “it is a horrific tragedy that so many people have been killed and wounded at the Gaza border.” Would Greenblatt have said this about the masses of Nazis and German civilians killed in the course of World War ll?
There is a serious sickness among Jews when so many feel more concern about the death of those seeking to kill us than anxiety for their own kinsmen."

Is American Jewry a Pushover?

American Jews are on the march!!

They seem to demonstrate for everyone except American Jews and against every injustice except threats to American Jewry!

The antisemitic threats against JCC's, the desecration of Jewish cemeteries, neither has brought an angry Jewish community to the streets. Is American Jewry a "pushover" or does it just seem that way to me?

Life in Jewish America: The Cultural Traitor

Are American Jews in mourning?!!
Below is a piece by Joanna Hershon from the Anglo-Jewish newspaper, the Forward:

Why Trump’s Victory Makes Me Fear For My Family

My parents are good people. They made me feel safe while I was growing up; they’ve supported my goals and shared in my greatest joys and pains. They are loyal friends, phenomenal grandparents, philanthropic, well-traveled and well-read. They raised not only me but also my mentally disabled brother. You probably know where I’m going with this. They both voted for Trump.

We’ve barely spoken since the election.

The emails fly back and forth between my mother and me (my father doesn’t communicate over email; he’s old-school like that) and though I try to remain calm in the face of the emails, rife with well-researched right-wing positions, I usually devolve into yelling or tears, and end up writing or saying the same thing: How could you?

It’s not as if their votes for Trump (not in a swing state, thank God) were a huge shock, but I’d held onto some pathetic hope that they hadn’t fully crossed over. My father didn’t reveal his vote in the last two elections, but I know that my mother — after agonizing — voted for Obama. I wasn’t raised in a Republican household. My parents’ migration to the right seemed to take on real fervor in the post-9/11 Neo-Con heyday. They’re both passionate Zionists, active in AIPAC. Their love of Israel is matched by an equal fear of Muslim extremism. When I’ve expressed that I, too, love Israel, and I, too, fear Muslim extremism (as well as every other kind of extremism), they seem to look at me askance. As if I couldn’t possibly understand what is at stake.

About a decade or so ago, it became too explosive and upsetting whenever my husband and I touched on politics with my parents, and I finally declared ours a political discussion-free relationship. I argued that no one was getting any younger, that we had to preserve our bond and — perhaps most important — our children’s bond with my parents. There was no room for screaming fights anymore. No leaving restaurants. No driving away. None of us had the stomach for it anymore.During the lead-up to this election, the political elephant tromped around the room whenever we were together. I thought it could be contained, especially because we certainly had good reason to believe that Hilary would win. The Donald would live on for many of us, as a reminder that xenophobia is alive and well in the USA, but also that Alec Baldwin is a comic genius.

The morning after Election Day, I snapped. I sent the first of many emails. Where we live in Brooklyn, people are actively mourning; it’s as if there had been a death in everyone’s family on November 8.

In the days since the election we’ve heard about the uneducated bigots, the misogynists and xenophobes— “the deplorables.” These are fellow citizens; they voted and were counted.Coming together and railing about ignorance and hatred is a natural way to blow off steam, to denounce bigotry and commune as like-minded individuals in the quest between good and evil. It’s not that I don’t want to participate in these dialogues and peaceful protests; I have, and heartily, but I’m left with a racing heart, a private despondency and incredulity (my parents!). My parents are hardly deplorable. I love them. And yet, I cannot reconcile their reasoning.

Have I mentioned we are Jewish? Have I mentioned that my mother speaks about Jewish values with passionate and sacred belief? I was raised to understand the importance of social equality; the Holocaust offered us a lens through which to see the world. I hear American Jews like my parents reassure themselves that someone like Steve Bannon isn’t an anti-Semite (Alan Dershowitz says so!) and I fear this segment of American Jews is gravely missing the point. How on earth, I wonder, does being “pro-Israel” excuse this new kind of anti-Semitism, this alignment with an “alt-right” culture? Their candidate has risen to power celebrating anti-immigrant, misogynist, anti-LGBTQ, anti-Muslim and, yes, anti-Semitic rhetoric. How can this be excused?

My mother has sent me article after article about anti-Semitism in leftist circles, anti-Semitism on college campuses. I believe these are serious problems. But what will my parents have left of their Jewish values if they identify with those on the far right, whose positions they downplay or even excuse in the name of support for Israel?

Trump and his team used tactics straight from the Führer’s playbook, and I don’t see how anyone — Jew or otherwise — can be remotely comfortable with that. In the wake of Trump’s victory, and the legitimization of this “alt right,” I fear for the safety of the most vulnerable members of our society. I fear for the future of our planet and I fear the irresponsibility of climate change deniers; I fear for the loss of Jewish fellowship.

I fear for my family.

Jonathan . . . At Last.

At last!.
I've waited decades to be able to draw this cartoon. The ability of antisemites to sell Americans (and American Jews) the idea that Pollard was anything but an American/Jewish hero has been and remains hard for me to swallow.
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Free Jonathan Pollard

The ugly truth.
It is time to stop this shameful affair and to demand freedom for Jonathan Pollard.
Not for humanitarian reasons, not for considerations of his health, but simply in the name of justice!
. . . and our own self respect! * * *
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Antisemitism in America

Jonathan Pollard agreed to wave his right to a jury trial in return for a lighter sentence.
And they screwed him.
End of story.

ANOTHER Year?!!?

The Pollard Affair is the Shame of America.

Our Get-Togethers

Jewish/Israeli Conferences.

Pollard and American Justice (2003)

May 22, 2003

Another ten years have gone by since I drew this cartoon about the outrageous miscarriage of American juctice in the treatment of Jonathan Pollard.

Another Year

Today is Christmas 2012.
America's Christians are celebrating.
For the Jewish community, however, it marks yet another year of fear and shame.

For the latest in this tale of antisemitism and the cowardice of American Jewish Organizations, check out

"Pollard Defenders Vindicated
After 25 years, the CIA has declassified documents that show Jonathan Pollard never spied on the U.S. for Israel" -more

Care for the Elderly (2002)

September 29, 2002

I drew today's cartoon back in 2002 for the American newspapers that carry Dry Bones. (if yours doesn't, please contact me)

* * * So which of the 3 stages are you now in?
Hmmmm?

Another Islamist Attack

Sometimes I use my cartoons to simply express the way I feel.

This is one of those times.

American Jewry (1997)

May 12, 1997

Today's Golden Oldie is from back in 1997. Fifteen years ago this month.

In America there is an annual cycle of Jewish communal life. Then as now, organized American Jewry was slipping towards summer while thinking of the the fund-raising season that would follow.

Fund Raising (1992)

May 15 1992

Today's Golden Oldie is from twenty years ago in this merry month of May. Somewhere at this very moment in America, the fall campaigns are being planned.

An American Rabbi

The American Rabbi in today's cartoon is one of my favorite Dry Bones characters.

Holocaust

Tonight is Erev Yom Hashoah, the eve of Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day.