The Four Color Media Monitor

The BBC looked at the subject of Russian comics used as propaganda for the sake of their repulsive war against Ukraine:

War-themed comic books are being used by the Kremlin to sell its vision of the war in Ukraine to the youth.

During the first months following the start of invasion of Ukraine, a poll by the Russian state pollster suggested that young Russians were the least supportive of the war.

It now seems the Kremlin is taking steps to ensure that changes.

In April, the Russian defence and education ministries started distributing tens of thousands of comic books that praise the invasion of Ukraine in schools across Russia and Ukraine’s Russia-occupied territories.

According to the project’s official website, the goal is ultimately to supply these comics to every school under Russian control.

Definitely, this is reprehensible, and just goes to show how regrettable it is communism in Russia wasn't defeated for long, after the original Soviet Union was brought down by 1991, and Ukraine was able to regain independence from the former USSR. As disturbing as the above report is, the BBC, sadly, cannot be relied upon to cover the subject of misogynist/antisemitic/racist cartoons drawn in Muslim countries, such as what the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs wrote about 2 decades ago. The cartoons in focus contain themes like the following:

Several hundred Arab cartoons from Kotek’s collection are categorized according to ten anti-Semitic themes in his book: “The first theme is based on the oldest anti-Semitic motif, demonization of the Jew. In the Islamic world the Jew’s status – like that of Christians – is that of a dhimmi, a second-class citizen.

“Israel, an entire state of these ‘inferior creatures,’ has won military victories against the Arab world. By their logic, this was only possible, they believe, because Jews are ‘satanic beings.’ In the cartoons I collected, the Jew is depicted as inhuman and an enemy of humanity. This dehumanization is necessary to justify the hoped for elimination.

“On 28 December 1999 – well before the second Palestinian uprising – Al-Hayat al-Jadida, the official Palestinian Authority journal, published a cartoon expressing this core idea. It depicted an old man in a djellaba, symbolizing the twentieth century, taking leave of a young man wearing a tee-shirt symbolizing the twenty-first century. In between them stood a small Jew with a Star of David on his breast, above which an arrow pointed to him saying, ‘the illness of the century.’

“A few months later on 22 March 2000, the same journal ran another cartoon showing a large Pope talking to a small Jew with the skin, feet, and tail of an animal, and a big hooked nose, wearing a kippa. The Pope exclaimed ‘Peace on Earth’ while the Satanic-looking Jew calls out ‘Colonies on Earth.'”

The ADL also discussed the subject 6 years ago. This is very serious, yet all the BBC cares about, predictably, is the easy subjects, not the hard ones. As a result, how can one be entirely certain companies like the BBC really even care about the trouble Russia's causing anew? What's happened with Russia attacking Ukraine is very sad, but so too is the continuing issue of antisemitism in Islamic regimes, and if Russian cartoons and comics hostile to the west are bad, so too are anti-Israel cartoons/comics produced in countries where the Religion of Peace is dominant. Regrettably, news services like the BBC continue to ignore the latter, which can put its alleged concern about the former under a question mark.

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