Steve Bell on Getting Fired for an "Anti-Semitic" Cartoon

Steve Bell, the legendary, British cartoonist who drew for decades for the Guardian newspaper in London, was abruptly accused by his editor of drawing an anti-Semitic cartoon and was fired. Steve is on our podcast to talk all about the cartoon, all about getting fired, what this means for other cartoonists and what comes next.

We get the whole story from Steve, at a time when more cartoonists who are critical of Israel or Netanyahu are being accused of drawing anti-Semitic cartoons.

We also have two of Israel's top editorial cartoonists to discuss Steve's cartoon.

Uri Fink is a very popular comic book artist and writer along with being an editorial cartoonist. He's published 22 books of his popular Zbeng! comic strip and comic book and is the editor of the Zbeng magazine which has had over a two hundred issues. Uri is the president of the Association of Israeli Cartoonists. The cartoonists in the Israeli Cartoon Association unanimously opposed Steve Bell's firing.

Michel Kichka is an editorial cartoonist for various Israeli TV channels, he draws graphic novels including an impressive one about his father who was a Holocaust survivor. Michel won the cow at St Just le Martel and a ton of other awards, and he's a professor at the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem.

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