One Last thing …
Apologies, and I promise this is the last time I’ll mention this story. I just need to clarify one thing: this cartoon story isn’t about antisemitism. The neocon billionaire, Paul Singer, is indifferent to whether I’m an anti-Semite or not? Singer and his Washington Free Beacon only care that I’m making anti-war cartoons and have a platform to do so. I’ve been in the media my whole life and know how the press operates. When you want to bring someone down (in this case me) you look for an angle, find their soft spots, and shape a narrative around that. It puts them on the defensive. Neocons can criticize me — I can handle that. But that’s not what they’re doing. They’re contacting publishers and getting them to stop publishing my work. They’re trying to end my career by accusing me of antisemitism. The Free Beacon couldn't care less about how I draw Netanyahu’s nose. They only thing they care about are my anti-war cartoons and want to stop me from being able to publish. It’s not whether you like my cartoons or not; it’s a First Amendment issue, and if media outlets have the right to publish my work. That's what this whole story is about.
These neocons go after Jewish journalists as well: Jeffrey Sachs, Glenn Greenwald, Max Blumenthal, Dave Smith, etc. According to them, everyone against the war is an anti-Semite, even if they’re Jewish. Secretary of State Rubio stated that Israel was the reason for the US strikes on Iran. Yet pointing this out is somehow a medieval trope. This war has resulted in thousands of deaths, countless injuries, and a looming economic and environmental disaster. My cartoon hasn’t hurt anyone, unless that person is insane, which many neocons are. I’m an old man at the end of my career, so it doesn’t really matter if the neocons can stop me from having my cartoons published. I’ll just paint instead.
I’m very thankful to the news outlets that have interviewed me and/or are covering this story.