'David Levine’s 1966 caricature of LBJ showing off his scar
From a recent NYTimes article on political caricature:
Levine…created a powerful image of President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966 by alluding to an almost trivial incident: Johnson exposing the scar on his belly from a recent gall bladder operation. But Mr. Levine turned the scar into a defining physical characteristic of the man. He also turned it into his defining political characteristic because the scar was a map of Vietnam. The caricature was accurate to the point of prophecy: it showed the wound that was to bring down the president.' - https://tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/55812038
Obvs not antisemitic, but it begs the question of why the 'operation' is portrayed as an act of self harm by Netanyahu when really the harm is being done to the Palestinians. Would have been better if he was about to 'operate' on a restrained Palestinian child.
And Bell sill hasn't resigned? Hmmm...
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