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Carlos Latuff is a freelance political cartoonist, born in November 30, 1968, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Published works

Latuff's works have been published in DMagazine (Italy), Power of Working Class[1](South Korea), and other newspapers and magazines.[2][3] Latuff's works have also been published on various Indymedia websites and several of his cartoons were also published on the Gush Shalom website. His work is also published on Norman Finkelstein's official website [9]

Themes

Latuff has authored several comics about Middle East situations such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Iraq War, mainly critizising Israel and the United States while sympathizing with their opposition.[citation needed]

He has authored a comic by the name of Tales of Iraq War (also translated into arabic), featuring 'Juba, the Baghdad sniper' as the hero while US soldiers are portrayed as villains sent by US President George Bush, caricaturised as the embodiment of evil.[citation needed]

In his We are all Palestinians cartoon series, various groups, including Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, Black South Africans during Apartheid, Native Americans, and Tibetans in China, are all shown stating "I am Palestinian".[4] His work called Forgiveness displays drawings of Muslims and Jews illustrating quotes from Buddha, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Victor Hugo and Voltaire.[5]

Latuff has also made a series of cartoons that portray Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon[6][7][8], United States President George W. Bush, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and British PM Tony Blair among other politicians as monsters and as Nazis.[9]

Controversies

"The Boy Who Cried Wolf"

Latuff himself has described his work as controversial.[10]

In 2002 the Swiss-based Jewish organization Aktion Kinder des Holocaust sued the Independent Media Center (IMC, also known as Indymedia) of Switzerland on the charge of anti-Semitism. The reason was a cartoon of Latuff's We are all Palestinians series, published in Swiss IMC website, which depicted a Jewish boy in Warsaw Ghetto saying: "I am Palestinian."[11][12][13][14] The criminal proceedings were suspended by Swiss court.[15] The official judgement stated that:

Even if the observer is emotionally biased against the Jewish people with this [cartoon], it is not the Jewish people as such that is being criticized, but their political behaviour towards the Palestinians. The issue is not a certain characterization of the Jews, but their stance in the current conflict. The constitutional equality of the Jews as human beings is thereby not denied. (p.2, paragraph 1.2.)

Aktion Kinder des Holocaust stated, in its reply:

The district attorneyship talks about "THE Jewish people", which seems to have "ONE political behaviour" towards Palestinians. The invention of a homogeneous Jewish attitude of "the Jewish people" is a manifold, scientifically proven anti-Semitic/anti-Jewish stereotype! Not only is the "Jewish people" denied pluralistic political attitudes - this view specially is the basis for the anti-Semitic frenzy of the existence of a worldwide Jewish conspiracy.[15]

In August 2006, Latuff reported that comic strips from his Tales of Iraq War[16] series were published, alongside an interview, in Al-Raed, "a Sunni magazine in Iraq".[17]

In 2006, Latuff entered, was placed second and won $4,000 in the controversial International Holocaust Cartoon Competition. Latuff's image compared the Israeli West Bank barrier with the Nazi concentration camps.[18] The competition itself was controversial - it was criticised by the then United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the Israeli foreign ministry, Reporters Without Borders, the Anti-Defamation League and many others.[19][20][21] Latuff's entry was described as "Holocaust inversion", a variety of Holocaust denial, by scholar Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld.[22] A cartoon by Latuff depicting Alan Dershowitz masturbating over the killing of Lebanese citizens, which illustrated an article by prominent anti-Zionist Norman Finkelstein, provoked further controversy.[23]

References

  1. ^ Power of Working Class magazine
  2. ^ http://users.resist.ca/~moak47/art/main.php?g2_itemId=2951
  3. ^ http://users.resist.ca/~moak47/art/main.php?g2_itemId=2949
  4. ^ http://www.sinkers.org/latuff
  5. ^ http://www.ism-london.org.uk/forgiveness.php
  6. ^ "Ariel Sharon portrait by ~latuff". deviantART. 2003-06-08. Retrieved 2007-09-21. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  7. ^ "Ariel Sharon by ~latuff". deviantART. 2003-06-07. Retrieved 2007-09-21. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ "The Godfather by ~latuff". deviantART. 2003-05-02. Retrieved 2007-09-21. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. ^ [1][2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
  10. ^ Google Cache: Letter from Latuff to fans Feb 10, 2001
  11. ^ Latuff: "Warswa ghetto, early twenthieth century", when i'm out on the street - poster art by Mike Flugennock
  12. ^ Alex Schärer: Linke und Antisemitismus: Der Indymedia-Streit - Aufpassen, was im Kübel landet, Die Wochenzeitung, April 4, 2002
  13. ^ Junge Welt: Ärger im Internet: Wegen antisemitischer Beiträge hat Indymedia Schweiz den Betrieb gestoppt, February 25, 2002
  14. ^ Aktion Kinder des Holocaust: Is this cartoon by Latuff, published at indymedia-switzerland, anti-Semitic? An analysis
  15. ^ a b Hamadeh, Anis (August 2002). "Jewish peace activists and Israeli violence". Retrieved 2007-09-21.
  16. ^ Latuff: TALES OF IRAQ WAR by LATUFF (blog)
  17. ^ Carlos Latuff: Comics read by IRAQIS in IRAQ, deviantART, August 21, 2006
  18. ^ Winners of the Iranian Holocaust Cartoon Competition, IRANCARTOON International
  19. ^ Associated Press: Iran says Holocaust cartoon contest expresses hatred toward oppressors, November 2, 2006
  20. ^ ADL: Arab Media Review: Anti-Semitism and Other Trends July - December 2006: Iranian Holocaust Cartoon Contest, January 24, 2007
  21. ^ David Cesarani: Deep in denial, The Guardian, December 11, 2006
  22. ^ Manfred Gerstenfeld: "Ahmadinejad, Iran, and Holocaust manipulation: methods, aims, and reactions", Scholars For Peace in the Middle East, February 1, 2007
  23. ^ Alan Dershowitz: The Lerner-Finkelstein duet, The Jerusalem Post, October 16, 2006 (mirror: [8])
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