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Once again Martin Rowson has delivered an anti-semitic cartoon, and the Graun has had to pull it from their website.

https://news.sky.com/story/the-guardian ... sf-twitter

I've seen it, and you could certainly see a Jewish stereotype in Rowson's depiction of Richard Sharp.

This isn't the first time...

https://www.martinrowson.com/

Rowson's apology for the readers or a forum which feverishly chows down on the Guardian's as well as {checks notes} even the fucking Byline Times' content.

"Gold. Sacks", geddit? As a bit of a Jew, I have not the slightest issue with this, nor with the portrayal of a middle-aged man.

You may not, but the whistled dogs will.

It seems that I called this wrongly.

Despite being as woke as fuck and a bit of a Jew, I just didn't see or take on board what Rowson did.

Apparently, he also went to school with Sharp, for crying out loud.

The portrayal of Sharp takes up 3% of the overall image.

‘In 1975- No antisemitic incidents, 1976- no antisem…’

Marina Hyde roundup.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... al-inquiry

Who actually gains from online controversies? Nobody really, save Elon Musk. Meanwhile scandals such as the Post Office computer system go largely unreported.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... coronation

The monarchy as an anachronism, with some stuff I honestly didn't know. Property in Romania, anyone?

John Crace’s editor should be familiar with the Lord Gowry libel action and is sailing close to the wind. Fucking funny though.

Too comatose even to take much pleasure in the arrival of Penny Mordaunt. For a while at the coronation last weekend, they had briefly thought she might be the future of their party. It’s amazing what wearing a Star Trek costume and being able to hold a sword for 50 minutes can do for you. But now they had moved on. Flatlining into the future. Even the permanently cheerful Joy Morrissey looked depressed. She used to wipe the dandruff off Boris Johnson’s collar before every PMQs. Now she’s just lost. What she would give for a few more flakes.

Holidays are really good. If you haven’t been on one, try it out. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... travelling

Also filed under bollocks.

Turkish lira plunges as Erdoğan claims mandate to continue divisive rule

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/ ... isive-rule

Today's "plunge" equates to less than a half of one percent. True, the markets in the EU, UK, and the US have been closed today for their respective holidays.

The Graun are however free of any caveats.

Youngian wrote: ↑Sun May 21, 2023 6:42 am Holidays are really good. If you haven’t been on one, try it out. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... travelling

I used to fucking hate September in the early years of secondary school.
Those "what I did in my holidays" essays.

All the "high achievers" writing about their family trip to South America, their showjumping camp or yachting in the med.
Me trying my best to not mention vacuuming, cooking and looking after my mum who could leave the bed on good days.

The illusion that the Guardian is a newspaper of the left is an illusion borne out of relativity.

Wow the Guardian seems like a great place to work

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-th ... e-at-work/

I check social media. A friend has posted: “They’ve broken out of jail.” Another has said: “Today is a day of celebration,” and someone else has shared an infographic of “Settler colonialism for beginners”. My old flatmate tells her followers she will be at the demonstration outside the Israeli embassy and she invites people to join her.

On Monday I go to work. How are your family, a colleague asks. When I answer, she squirms. Can’t they just leave, my colleague says. No, they can’t actually.

I look at the morning newsletter for the newspaper I work for. It breaks down the number of dead Palestinian children. It does not mention dead Israeli children.

My group chats are exploding as family and friends work out what has been happening, who is alive. I go back to the news. I type the name of the kibbutz into the wires. Nothing. I read how Hamas invaded “settlements”. They’re not settlements! They’re small, pre-state kibbutzim.

I find out that a friend of a friend was at the music festival and is missing. I’m shaking at work.

I see a colleague who had posted about “decolonisation” all over social media over the weekend. They’re laughing with the rest of their team. They’re having a great day. I used to love their podcast, full of hot takes and celeb gossip. Now they’ve evolved into an expert on the Middle East. It doesn’t look like their family is in the middle of it though.

No one else at work speaks to me about it. I nod my way through conversations about fonts and I stumble home.

I go back the next day. I look at the front page. A photo of Gaza and “violence escalates”. Israelis “dead” but Palestinians “killed”. If they can’t empathise with the Jews now they never will.

Shiva on a scooter - the good news just keeps on comin'.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... tists-warn

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