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‘Forward’ Spikes Israelis-as-Chimps Cartoon

Gawker runs it, instead
By Marissa Brostoff | 1:02 PM Aug 19, 2009

The Forward lets cartoonist Eli Valley get away with a lot in his monthly comic, but the paper’s editor killed his latest contribution, which Gawker instead published yesterday afternoon. It’s got a lot of chutzpah: in its universe, Israelis are portrayed as chimpanzees whose lexicons are limited to “voonga!” and who pick fights with neighboring ...