SILENCING THE ARTIST WILL NEVER SILENCE THE ART

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September 11, 2009 at 7:10 am (Cartoons, DesertPeace Exclusive, Extremism, Israel, Palestine, Phobias, zionist harassment)

Image ‘Copyleft’ by Carlos Latuff

Carlos Latuff is not a stranger to smear campaigns against himself, not even to death threats: His work on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict made him a target to the Israeli terror machine; to the point that the Likud party in Israel (the ruling party today) openly called for his assassination. On the Likud party official web site they called for “Neutralizing Lattuf by any means necessary”. When Carlos was asked about the open call to “assassinate him, he said “Of course, we can expect anything from IsraHell. If they can carry on “selective killings” of Palestinians, and carpet Beirut with tons of bombs murdering hundreds of civilians, what is the big deal about “neutralizing” one cartoonist in Brazil? Death threats, cheap attempts to terrorize me, however, will not prevent me from supporting Palestinians in their struggle against brutal Israeli occupation. The most that Likud creeps can do is silence me with a bullet, but they will never be able to silence my art.”

I am proud that Carlos is an Associate of DesertPeace. His works speak volumes in support of People’s struggles throughout the world, especially the Palestinian Cause.The latest smear campaign against him took place this week in Australia. There are obviously a bunch of morons that do the ‘monitoring of neo-nazi groups. They do not know the difference between the far right and the far left as can be seen here; Anti-racism campaigner Cam Smith, monitoring neo-Nazi groups, said the graffiti drew a comparison between Israel and Nazism. The graffiti was “probably from the far left.”

There is no doubt in my mind that the graffiti in question is the work of far right zionists. It has no connection to the Left or to Carlos Latuff.

Cartoonist: Northcote graffiti’s not mine

by Suzanne Robson

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Carlos Latuff says he has nothing to do with the graffiti.

The graffiti.

A BRAZILIAN cartoonist and Palestine sympathiser has denied any role in anti-Semitic graffiti in Darebin which features his name.

Graffiti including a Nazi swastika inside a Star of David and the words “Israhell” and “latuff” have been scrawled on bins in Northcote, Fairfield and Clifton Hill.

Leftist Brazilian political cartoonist Carlos Latuff, whose pro-Palestine cartoons have featured in Australia’s indie media websites, said “he had never associated Judaism with Nazism in his cartoons”.

“It’s about the State of Israel, imperialism, land grabbing, you name it, but nothing, nothing related to Judaism,” he said.

Mr Latuff said it wasn’t new that his name and cartoons, would be used in “crude photomontages around the web, just for accusing me of anti-Semitism”.

B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission chairman Tony Levy said the graffiti was “obviously” anti-Semitic because it featured the Star of David.

“This is something we are appalled at, not least because of the number of Holocaust survivors who would be distressed by it,” he said.

His group would take action to remove the graffiti. Mayor Diana Asmar said she had been alerted about the graffiti and the council would remove the tags at the affected Darebin properties.

“We are a community that is proud of our cultural diversity, I’m disappointed that someone in Darebin would be involved with small-minded rubbish such as this,” she said.

Anti-racism campaigner Cam Smith, monitoring neo-Nazi groups, said the graffiti drew a comparison between Israel and Nazism. The graffiti was “probably from the far left.”

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