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Penn Lecturer Is Behind Grotesque Anti-Semitic Cartoons Dwayne Booth in one sketch drew Nazi flag with Star of David shown in place of swastika
Penn Lecturer Is Behind Grotesque Anti-Semitic Cartoons
Dwayne Booth in one sketch drew Nazi flag with Star of David shown in place of swastika
A lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communication has published several anti-Semitic cartoons since Hamas's Oct. 7 attack, including one that depicts Zionists sipping Gazan blood from wine glasses, a version of the ancient blood libel employed in anti-Semitic propaganda that accused Jews of using the blood of Christian children for baking matzah and other rituals.
Dwayne Booth, who joined Penn's Annenberg School for Communication as an adjunct faculty member in 2015 and teaches two classes at the Ivy League institution, publishes political cartoons under the pen name "Mr. Fish."
Another Booth cartoon, posted to his Instagram, shows Jews in a Nazi concentration camp holding signs bearing slogans such as "Free Palestine," "Stop The Holocaust In Gaza," and "Gaza, The World's Biggest Concentration Camp."
Yet another depicts Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a bloodied, red-eyed butcher holding a long knife and a crumpled Palestinian flag, while a third shows an Israeli holding a gun to a hospitalized baby's head.
A fifth cartoon depicts a Nazi flag with a Star of David drawn in place of a swastika.
Penn's Annenberg School for Communication did not return a request for comment. Booth is teaching a class on political cartoons devoted to exploring "the purpose and significance of image-based communication as an unparalleled propagator of both noble and nefarious ideas," according to Penn's website. "Work presented will be chosen for its unique ability to demonstrate the inflammatory effect of weaponized visual jokes, uncensored commentary, and critical thinking on a society so often perplexed by artistic free expression and radicalized creative candor," the school says. It is not clear whether students study Booth's work in the class.
Then-Penn president Liz Magill last November announced the formation of a University Task Force on Antisemitism as the school grappled with high-profile instances of campus anti-Semitism. The head of the task force, dentistry professor Mark Wolff, did not respond to a request for comment on Booth's work or on whether the task force intended to address it with university leadership.
The school has not said publicly whether it has addressed the anti-Semitic incidents that roiled the campus last year and faces a lawsuit and congressional investigation into its handling of campus anti-Semitism. In one case, a student stormed the Penn Hillel building, yelled "F— the Jews," and destroyed furniture. Another stole an Israeli flag from an apartment near campus before speaking at an anti-Semitic rally in downtown Philadelphia, where the student recounted feeling "so empowered and happy" as Hamas's Oct. 7 attack unfolded.
The Penn website identifies Booth as a "cartoonist and freelance writer whose work can most regularly be seen on ScheerPost.com," a self-described "independent news organization that focuses on progressive politics and human rights issues."
The site was founded by left-wing journalist Robert Scheer and features columns from former New York Times reporter Chris Hedges, who routinely accuses Israel of "genocide." In one column, which included Booth's concentration camp cartoon as the feature image, Hedges said Israel's retaliatory war against Hamas "borrowed from the Nazi's [sic] depopulation of Jewish ghettos."
"The Nazis shipped their victims to death camps. The Israelis will ship their victims to squalid refugee camps in countries outside of Israel," Hedges wrote. "And if we do not stand in eternal vigilance over evil—our evil—we become, like those carrying out the mass killing in Gaza, monsters."
At Penn, Booth teaches two courses, according to his university bio: "Sick and Satired: The Insanity of Humor and How it Keeps Us Sane" and "WARNING! Graphic Content: Political Cartoons, Comix, and the Uncensored Artist." The former examines "how and why humor … might be considered one of the most influential and profoundly useful forms of communication," while the latter "examines the past, present, and future of political cartooning, underground comix, graphic journalism and protest art."
Penn in 2017 featured an exhibit from Booth titled "We Are Not Alone," which featured images of "thought leaders" such as former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
While Penn wrote in an article on the exhibit that Booth "skewers politicians on both sides of the aisle," the work featured on his website since Oct. 7 almost exclusively attacks Israel. One cartoon shows Netanyahu shoveling skulls into a steam engine and includes a caption accusing the prime minister of working to slaughter "every last Palestinian man, woman, and child."
Booth, who did not return a request for comment, said in the article that he teaches his students "when to fight injustice."
"I want to refine my students' critical thinking skills and get them to recognize how and when to fight injustice and institutionalized apathy," he said.
Reps. Cori Bush (D-MO) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) were the only two votes against a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday that would ban Palestinians who joined in the Hamas terror attack on Israel on October 7 from entering the U.S.
Reps. Cori Bush (D-MO) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) broke with the rest of the House on Wednesday evening to vote against a bill barring participants in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel from entering the United States. Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) voted present on the bill, while 422 other lawmakers voted in favor.
The “No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act” would designate any members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and any other individuals involved in perpetrating, planning, funding or supporting the Oct. 7 attack on Israel as barred from the U.S. and from seeking any immigration relief from the U.S.
It would also expand existing immigration restrictions barring some representatives of the Palestinian Liberation Organization from the U.S. to include all PLO members.
Both Bush and Tlaib, members of the left-wing “Squad,” said the bill duplicated existing law, which already bars terrorists from entering the U.S., and that it was crafted to further anti-Palestinian, anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, or anti-immigrant narratives.
The two legislators, who campaign together, have called for an immediate ceasefire that would leave Hamas in place in Gaza.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the 2021 e-book, “The Zionist Conspiracy (and how to join it),” now updated with a new foreword. He is also the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Report: Blinken, Biden Considering Unilateral Recognition of Palestinian State
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reportedly asked the State Department to review options for a unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state at the end of the war between Hamas and Israel — a major break from past U.S. policy, and from Israel.
While U.S. officials say there has been no policy change, the fact the State Department is even considering such options signals a shift in thinking within the Biden administration on possible Palestinian statehood recognition, which is highly sensitive both internationally and domestically.
For decades, U.S. policy has been to oppose the recognition of Palestine as a state both bilaterally and in UN institutions and to stress Palestinian statehood should only be achieved through direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
The story — almost certainly leaked deliberately from the State Department — comes as Blinken prepares to visit Israel for the fifth time since the Hamas terror attack on October 7 launched the war.
Though Blinken has expressed sympathy for the Israeli people, he has also tried to restrict Israel’s military response, and has lately become adamant about forcing Israel to accept a Palestinian state, which would be a major win for Hamas, which would achieve that outcome after the mass murder of civilians.
Blinken has even blamed Israelis for being intransigent on a Palestinian state. The truth is that nearly two-thirds of Israelis had supported such a state in 2012 — but now nearly two-thirds oppose one, because of the way Hamas turned Gaza into a terror base.
The Biden administration pursued a Palestinian state since before October 7, even reportedly blocking a Saudi-Israeli peace deal because of the administration’s insistence that it include a Palestinian state, whether the Palestinians are ready for one or not.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has adamantly opposed a Palestinian state as the outcome of the war — and he has begun to rise again in some polls, as Israelis rally behind a leader seen as the only Israeli politician who can stand up to the U.S.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the 2021 e-book, “The Zionist Conspiracy (and how to join it),” now updated with a new foreword. He is also the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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