For offensive cartoons, lost work

In Israel, pigs are considered dirty animals. twitter.com photo

A few days ago, an Israeli magazine reportedly released a cartoonist depicting Benjamin Netanyahu as Prime Minister George Orwell's political farm, Sathylbad Animal Farm

last week, after adopting a controversial law. critics, non-Jews discriminated, the Jerusalem Report published a drawing of the cartoon Avi Katz on the scene after the vote while he was working with the Prime Minister and rejoicing in the members from his right wing, the Likud

A. Katz portrayed them with pig heads and thus caused the disruption of some readers. In Israel, pigs are considered unclean animals, and Jewish religious law prohibits eating pork.

To clarify the reference to Orwell's book, A. Katz writes above: "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

The Jerusalem Post, owner of the Jerusalem Report, issued a statement in which it claims that A. Katz's previous drawings were in the hands of but his latest drawing is extremely insulting. As stated, there will be no space for these images in the publications.

Defenders of press freedom note that the caricatures were approved by the editors of the Jerusalem report. Thursday, she was still on the magazine's website.

A 69-year-old artist was born in the United States but decided to move to Israel. He has been living here for more than 40 years. A. Katz has produced illustrations since the 1990s for The Jerusalem Report. The man has won numerous national and international awards for his work.