Leunig cartoon: antisemitism or valid political comment?

August 22, 2025

I am no particular fan of Leunig, but I found Harold Zwier’s assessment of Leunig’s four-frame cartoon self-serving and symptomatic of the sad conflict within global Jewry related to the genocide in Palestine.

As a non-Jew, I took it that Leunig spoke for all of us (aside from Bibi, his war criminal associates and and his youthful conscripted footsoldiers.)

Zwier’s self-indulgent intellectual doodle and its perceived antisemitism is a another crutch for his guilt-avoidant mates. It is a pathetic distraction from the mass murder for its two million victims and it shows no sympathy for them.

Not all of us are antisemitic, Harold, but many of us are well informed about Israel’s ongoing crimes. Maybe you should have kept your version of “silent reflection” out of the blogosphere.