Mick Hartley

From the JC:

A cartoonist and Holocaust scholar has claimed that his upcoming book on the Shoah was cancelled after he refused his editor’s demand to condemn Israel for committing “war crimes” in its introduction.

Dr Rafael Medoff, author of Cartoonists Against the Holocaust, said he rejected what he viewed as false and politically charged claims that editor Craig Yoe wanted included in the book before its publication by Dark Horse Comics.

According to Medoff, the proposed introduction would have criticised Israel for alleged “war crimes” in Gaza while also condemning the Trump administration for creating “concentration-style prisons” for migrants.

Medoff said he refused to publish what he considered factual inaccuracies in a book dedicated to documenting the Holocaust….

Yoe allegedly said of Israel that it is “a country populated by an ethnic religious group who were immorally and horrifically tortured and killed in the Holocaust for their ethnicity, led by a prime minister that the world’s top war crimes court has issued warrants for his alleged acts of war crimes and crimes against humanity”.

In his response to Yoe, Medoff objected to the proposed language, arguing that it politicised a book about the Holocaust and relied on historically inaccurate comparisons.

“Accusing Israel of genocide is a lie, and requiring a Holocaust scholar to denounce Israel in order to publish his book is antisemitic bullying,” he wrote….

Carly Gammill of StandWithUs said, “When a comic book publisher pressures a Holocaust scholar to denounce the Jewish state before his own book on the Holocaust can see print, the irony is hard to miss.”