If you feel it necessary to ban books, it says FAR MORE about you than it does me.
If you're so fragile that you feel it necessary to ban books, then you are more broken, more scared, and more of a delicate snowflake than the very people you make fun of.
Read a book... or ignore it... but banning books is pure cowardice and fragility.
Bloody hell. The Guardian has just booted a cartoonist for showing this cartoon, depicting Netanyahu cutting a Palestine-shamed section out of his own abdomen. I think it's pretty clear the cartoonist meant "Expelling Palestinians hurts Israel because Palestinians are part of the community" or something similar.
Some asshat (they always show up) drew a tortured parallel with Shylock in Merchant of Venice, demanding his pound of flesh from a borrower. Said asshat claimed this ridiculous comparison made the cartoon "antisemitic."
Antisemitic, my ass. This is nothing more than a slight remix on "if you criticize Israel's policies, you hate Jews." The comparison implied by the cartoon is clear, but someone yelled "antisemitism" and the Guardian rolled over.
The Guardian has shown journalistic cowardice.
Interestingly, The Onion nailed this whole dynamic a few days ago:
The antisemitism on this platform has reached some new levels.
Funny how the people who claimed to stand by you when Charlottesville happened or a hate crime synagogue murder occurred a couple of miles from your house flip on a dime to try and score some fake leftist social media cred.
The #Israeli state's response to this uprising will be devastating and barbaric. But #life as it is now for #Palestinians is one of degradation, exile, and murder at the hands of a merciless #colonial system. They have chosen to grasp at #freedom while they still have a chance, desperate though it may be. Forget the #hypocrisy and #moral#cowardice of those who would deny the Palestinians their lawful right of resistance; the #people of Palestine deserve our unwavering support and #solidarity.
The same team launched a similar attack again a few weeks later... They put one Russian frigate, the Admiral Makarov, out of commission. They believe that they damaged at least one submarine, and, the engineers say, at least two other boats as well.
"Between 2014 and 2022, the United States and European nations, fearing they might provoke Russia attack, limited or banned weapons sales to Ukraine. This too proved to be a terrible, consequential mistake: