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Stewart Mocks Hamas TV

Points to shoddy animation (and horrifying anti-Semitism)

by
Marc Tracy
February 03, 2010

Jon Stewart weighs in on Hamas’s new children’s television show, A Special Mission—the one in which Fatah policeman Bahlul is a satrap to an Israeli soldier with long sidecurls and a penchant for machine-gunning Palestinian children and drinking their blood.

The clip is worth watching, particularly for Stewart’s own cartoon, “Jewby Doo.” And also for this advice, regarding the A Special Mission’s cheap production value: “Hey Hamas, two words—MacBook Pro!”

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.