Nutty professor slammed for 'reprehensible' anti-Semitic cartoons
Author of the article:Brad Hunter
Published Feb 13, 2024 • Last updated 2 days ago • 2 minute read
BLOOD LIBEL: Controversial illustrations by U of Penn prof Dwayne Booth. DWAYNE BOOTH/CLOWNCRACKED.COM
BLOOD LIBEL: Controversial illustrations by U of Penn prof Dwayne Booth. DWAYNE BOOTH/CLOWNCRACK.COM
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Julius Streicher called and he wants his art back.
The infamous Nazi pornographer — strung up at Nuremberg for war crimes — would certainly give thumbs up to a University of Pennsylvania professor now under fire for wildly anti-Semitic cartoons.
According to the New York Post, communications school lecturer Dwayne Booth’s portfolio of poison includes an illustration entitled Slaughterhouse — depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu soaked in blood with red glowing eyes and holding a knife.
Professor Dwayne Booth. ANNENBERG SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATIONS
Professor Dwayne Booth. ANNENBERG SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATIONS
In addition:
— Another cartoon shows Israeli and American men drinking blood from wine glasses festooned with the word “Gaza.” Nazis claimed Jews drank the blood of Christian children.
— One masterpiece called “Executioner’s Song” shows a baby with a gun with the Israeli flag on it held to its head.
— A particularly outrageous piece called “Never Again and Again and Again” shows Holocaust-era Jews holding up posters protesting Israel’s actions against Hamas.
— “Birth of a New Nation” features a skeletal hand emerging like the Grim Reaper through an Israeli flag.
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REPREHENSIBLE: One of Prof. Dwayne Booths masterpieces. DWAYNE BOOTH/ CLOWNCRACK.COM
According to the Post, the shocking images were posted on Booth’s personal website called clowncrack.com. He used the pen name Mr. Fish.
The university’s interim president, J. Larry Jameson, lambasted the twisted illustrations as “reprehensible.” However, Jameson doubled down on the faculty lounge fascist’s academic freedom.
“I find (Booth’s cartoons) reprehensible, with anti-Semitic symbols, and incongruent with our efforts to fight hate,” Jameson wrote. “For me, it is painful to see the suffering and tragic loss of non-combatants in Israel and Gaza be fodder for satire.”
Controversial illustrations by U of Penn prof Dwayne Booth. DWAYNE BOOTH/CLOWNCRACKED.COM
BLOOD LIBEL: Controversial illustrations by U of Penn prof Dwayne Booth. DWAYNE BOOTH/CLOWNCRACK.COM
Booth teaches two courses on cartooning at the Ivy League school but it appears he might be the super-villain.
The cartoon scandal has made Jewish students and professors nervous as America’s top universities spiral downward in a frenzy of anti-Semitism. Freshman Raphael Englander, 18, said in the student newspaper he could never take the class.
Controversial illustrations by U of Penn prof Dwayne Booth. DWAYNE BOOTH/CLOWNCRACKED.COM
Controversial illustrations by U of Penn prof Dwayne Booth. DWAYNE BOOTH/CLOWNCRACK.COM
“As the grandson of a Holocaust survivor, I could never fathom taking these courses now,” he wrote. “How could I? His work simultaneously spreads the conspiracies that killed my own family members and scoffs at their memory by equivocating the Jewish state to their murderers.”
Englander told the Post that for him, the cartoons “flipped a switch.”
“I feel both angry and sad that a lecturer at my university creates and shares antisemitic cartoons,” he said. “While I feel safe on campus, I have many friends and acquaintances who do not feel safe, and there have been many, concrete examples of anti-Semitism — including these cartoons, most recently.”
But the university’s supremo said because the sick cartoons were on Herr Booth’s personal site, there was nothing to be done.
Following the Hamas terrorist attack on Oct. 7 that left 1,300 Israelis dead and the resulting blowback that has killed thousands of Palestinians, the university had been hammered for its indifference to anti-Semitism on campus.
After a less-than-stellar performance in Congress, the former president, Liz Magill, resigned. That did not slow down Kampus Kommandos who chanted “We are Hamas.”
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Penn students and the university’s interim president have slammed lecturer Dwayne Booth’s cartoons — drawn as Mr. Fish — as “reprehensible” and antisemitic.
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Julius Streicher called and he wants his art back.
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