The kill switch for us all is, well, calling them all warmongers, but the true sword we are falling on now in large numbers across Western Uncivilized Civilization is, well, From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free.

Shoot, what would Mr. Fish do with this concept:

We talked, and the show will air August 5, but the reality is real time, and as we speak the monsters of the world are conniving and plotting more silenced voices. LINK.

My own, man, someone said it was a joke that I was and am cancelled from teaching K12 and even college in the State of Oregon (now, come on, you pencil necks, do you think I can get a gig in a more liberal venue, a more tolerant venue? These software developers are working around the clock to crawl through the internet, and other data fields, to find any, just any word or turn of phrase that calls Occupied Palestine the Jewish State of Constant Rape, Murder, Starvation. And then, the HR tools, crawling through Social Media, the World Wide STD Net, and alas, what sort of reason do I give for a break in employment, and what about the past employers- why no referencing them as references?

Here’s the Jewish (Israeli, Zionist, Judaic) News Service:

Penn lays off lecturer who drew antisemitic cartoons citing ‘budgetary’ reasons

Here’s the Marc Steiner Show, The Real News Network:

The reality – and something that, unfortunately, is not unique to Penn – is that colleges and universities nationwide have been way too complicit with the largely Republican-led efforts to target students and faculty members engaged in any and all speech rendered in support of trans/black/immigrant, and women’s rights, free speech, the independent press, academic freedom, and medical research – speech that also voices bold criticism of right-wing nationalism, genocide, apartheid, fascism, and specifically the Israeli assault on Palestine.”

Tsunami of stories, tales of different fucking journalists:

J. Larry Jameson, interim president of the University of Pennsylvania, denounced Booth’s illustrations as “reprehensible.”

Mr. Fish and I grappled with the reality that, sure, I can make broad statements …

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But then, when I make bold and broad statements …

Dwayne would never say THAT which is thought experimented upon above:

Dwayne Booth: I think the question of attempting to criticize Israel and then being called an antisemite is conflating politics with religion, nationalism with religion. Because really, again, look at it. Just look at all of the conversations that people have been having. To criticize the state of Israel is criticizing the state of Israel. It has really nothing to do with criticizing Judaism at all. Now, if somebody is Jewish and supporting Israel, OK, they’ve made that connection for themselves. So therefore, you can’t have an argument that says, you’re hurting my Jewishness, my Jewish identity by attacking a nation-state, because they’re two different things. And if you’re protecting the virtue of a nation-state, that is nationalism.

Is it THIS one?

Nah, maybe this is the TROPE that got him sacked?

Again, we have to use broad strokes, man, to get the message across, so was it this ONE, even though a circumcised penis is not exposed?

We talked about sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me, again, turned on its head, and alas, “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words against Israel or the Military Offensive Weapons war lords will more than just HURT me. Think CANCELLED.

Take this with more than a fucking grain of salt or a rock of good cocaine:

For what, as an official officer of the United Nations?

For this? PDF.

Yeah, these words, Mr. Fish?

This report examines Israel’s systematic use of torture against Palestinians from the occupied Palestinian territory since 7 October 2023, encompassing both custodial and non-custodial practices, which meet the threshold for genocide under the Genocide Convention. It documents how torture has become integral to the domination of and punishment inflicted on men, women and children, both through custodial abuse and through a relentless campaign of forced displacement, mass killings, deprivation and destruction of all means of life to inflict long-term collective pain and suffering. A continuous, territorially pervasive regime of psychological terror is being imposed, designed to break bodies, deprive a people of their dignity and force them from their land. This is not incidental violence. It is the architecture of settler-colonialism, built on a foundation of dehumanization and maintained by a policy of cruelty and collective torture.

But Mr. Fish’s words resonate:

Dwayne Booth: Yeah. And I’d had conversations, remember, that there’s some cartoonists who are doing some things that, again, are just a little bit too polite. Because if we’re looking at this thing and we do think that this is a genocide, you can’t pull your punches. And so, in fact, when this stuff had happened with me initially with the Washington Free Beacon, I reached out.

There’s another colleague I have who’s a cartoonist, whose name is Andy Singer, and he and I have been in communication over the years, and he’s somewhat fearless on this issue. He and I were talking, and we came up with this idea: let’s publish a book that has cartoonists who, over the last many decades, have had a problem criticizing Israel for fear of being called anti-Semitic.

We sent it out to our colleagues and other international cartoonists and so forth. We found two, Matt Wuerker and Ted Rall, who were willing to participate in this project. I had a number of conversations with others who just contacted me privately and said, I can’t do it because I’ll lose my job. I can’t do it because I’ll be targeted and I’m too afraid. I can’t get close to this subject; my editor won’t let me do it, so I can’t do it. International cartoonists, different idea, a whole different approach, sending me stuff. I can tell my story. I’ve been jailed. I’ve been beaten up for this kind of work. And so it became a very interesting thing.

Again, the United States is, by and large, an extremely privileged society. And yet, when it comes to issues like this, it demonstrates the most cowardice because we’ve been made to be way too sensitive about our own discomfort to advance the cause of humanity and justice, love, all of those things, because we’ve seen that there is a penalty for doing that, and we do not want to give up certain creature comforts. We don’t want to be called something that we are not, and we need to be uncomfortable. In many ways, we have to break soft rules. We have to chain ourselves to fences and then make it an inconvenience to be pulled from those fences. (source)

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Ahh, while driving home after the interview for my radio show, Finding Fringe: Voices from the Edge, after I went to a nerdy thing at OSU’s Marine Science Center, the Hatfield, with a ceremony for the articulated blue whale skeleton on campus, I get this geo-fencing this, man, on my phone:

Of course I know it is Jewish and Tel Aviv-inspired shit, geofencing, and a bot, for sure, but a smart bot, that gathers any fucking response that the person might have:

I called this stupidity “dude,” again, giving the bot another chance at Edward Bernays on crack:

So, they are taking names, numbers, and responses: I was kind to the bot.

Testing our IQs?

In September, Show Faith by Works LLC, a San Diego-based company led by conservative activist Chad Schnitger, filed a sworn document with the U.S. Department of Justice. The declaration revealed that the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs was paying Show Faith by Works $4.1 million to carry out a massive, covert, digital surveillance operation targeting Christian communities across multiple states, including California, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.

The document noted that all students at every Christian college and every congregant at “every major church” in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado have been spied on through their phone’s location data, and targeted with propaganda extolling Israel’s “moral superiority” and “linking the Palestinian population with extremist factions.” The campaign estimates that it has reached well over eight million Americans.

Show Faith by Works itself divides its messaging into two themes: “pro-Israel” and “anti-Palestinian”. Its primary goals, in its own words, are to “combat low American Evangelical Christian approval of the Nation of Israel,” by “using biblical arguments to highlight the importance of Israel and the Jewish People to Christians.” It also wishes to “educate Christians on the historical importance of Israel and its significance in the region,” and to “counter new and evolving pro-Palestinian messaging as the global narrative shifts.”

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This was in June 2026, but Satan’s Elves in Silicon Wadi are working overtime. They have my T-Mobile account, for sure, and why was I targeted? Mr. Fish, help!!!

Dwayne Booth: It’s an interesting time because, in many ways, my work is quadrupled. Partly because it’s just what I’ve always done, but the other part is I don’t see this profession stepping up to the challenge at all. I don’t see any single-panel cartoonists who are hitting the Israel-Gaza issue nearly as hard as I am.

Marc Steiner: No, they’re not.

Dwayne Booth: No. And I see a lot also, of the attacks on Trump. And again, it always strikes me as, how would the Democratic Party render a cartoon? That’s what I see out there. And it’s too soft. It is just way too soft. So as I increase my output, I feel the light getting brighter and brighter on me, which makes me feel more and more unsafe inside this society because yes, they’re targeting people who are not citizens, but what’s next? We all know the poem.

But at the same time, I feel like it’s a responsibility that I have, and I’m sure that you probably have this same sense of responsibility. Speaking up, talking out loud, even though it’s on my nervous system, it is grinding me down in a way that is new.

But that said, the number of people who are coming to me are increasing. I’m actually starting a Substack so I can have my own conversations with people and so forth, because we have got to increase this megaphone. We just have to.

In fact, one thing that was interesting is just this last October I was invited to speak at a cartooning conference in Montreal. And the whole reason to have me up there and to talk about it was from the perspective of the people, the organizers; I was the only American cartoonist who was cartooning about Gaza. (source)

Can only JEWS say this?

Israeli politicians and public figures have not shied away from using genocidal rhetoric that compares with Nazi propaganda during the Final Solution. Yitzhak Kroizer of the Jewish Power party (Guardian, 1/3/24) proclaimed:

The Gaza Strip should be flattened, and for all of them there is but one sentence, and that is death.

Israeli parliamentarian Moshe Feiglin (Middle East Eye, 5/21/25) said in May:

Every child in Gaza is the enemy. We need to occupy Gaza and settle it, and not a single Gazan child will be left there. There is no other victory.

Israeli TV presenter Elad Barashi (New Arab, 5/5/25) made the parallels explicit when he called for “a Holocaust in Gaza.” He maintained he couldn’t “understand the people here in the State of Israel who don’t want to fill Gaza with gas showers…or train cars.”

It started with fucking words, not sticks and stones:

A lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School of Communication has published several anti-Semitic cartoons since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, including one that depicts Zionists sipping Gazan blood from wine glasses, a version of the ancient blood libel employed in anti-Semitic propaganda that accused Jews of using the blood of Christian children for baking matzah and other rituals.

Dwayne Booth, who joined Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication as an adjunct faculty member in 2015 and teaches two classes at the Ivy League institution, publishes political cartoons under the pen name “Mr. Fish.”

Another Booth cartoon, posted to his Instagram, shows Jews in a Nazi concentration camp holding signs bearing slogans such as “Free Palestine,” “Stop The Holocaust In Gaza,” and “Gaza, The World’s Biggest Concentration Camp.”

Yet another depicts Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a bloodied, red-eyed butcher holding a long knife and a crumpled Palestinian flag, while a third shows an Israeli holding a gun to a hospitalized baby’s head.

A fifth cartoon depicts a Nazi flag with a Star of David drawn in place of a swastika.

Mississippi, Goddam, and Strange Mother Fucking Fruit?

“We Are Not Alone,” on the walls of the Forum of the Annenberg School for Communication, Booth created 10 large individual images of thought leaders who each have wide spheres of influence: musicians Joni Mitchell (ink, acrylic, pencil); John Lennon (ink); John Coltrane (pencil); and Bob Dylan (pencil); comedians Lenny Bruce (pencil); Sarah Silverman (pencil); and Bill Hicks (pencil); novelist Kurt Vonnegut (ink); writer-filmmaker Susan Sontag (pencil); and whistleblower Edward Snowden (ink).

Dwayne “Mr. Fish” Booth, cartoonist and Annenberg lecturer, has a new art exhibit on display at the Annenberg School. Titled “We Are Not Alone,” the exhibit features 10 pencil and ink drawings of famous people who hold considerable influence. Booth argues in his artist’s statement that the public values celebrities’ opinions over those of the majority. To learn more, read Penn Current’s story on Booth’s exhibit.

Yeah, Mexican Muralists:

Is it Memorex or Mr. Fish or Picasso?

What do you do with this, Mr. Fish?

Condoleeza Rice confirmed once again this week that she has learned absolutely nothing:

“When I hear, ‘Well, it wasn’t imminent,’ I think, ‘Do you really want to wait until it’s imminent, or do you want to try to degrade it earlier?’” she continued.

Endless rage is not in Mr. Fish’s book

Donald Hall was considered one of the major American poets of his generation. His poetry explores the longing for a more bucolic past and reflects the poet’s abiding reverence for nature. Although Hall gained early success with his first collection, Exiles and Marriages (1955), his later poetry is generally regarded as the best of his career. Often compared favorably with such writers as James Dickey, Robert Bly, and James Wright, Hall used simple, direct language to evoke surrealistic imagery. In addition to his poetry, Hall built a respected body of prose that includes essays, short fiction, plays, and children’s books. Hall, who lived on the New Hampshire farm he visited in summers as a boy, was also noted for the anthologies he edited and is a popular teacher, speaker, and reader of his own poems.

Check out Fish’s interview with Roger Waters.

Affirmation

By Donald Hall

To grow old is to lose everything.

Aging, everybody knows it.

Even when we are young,

we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads

when a grandfather dies.

Then we row for years on the midsummer

pond, ignorant and content. But a marriage,

that began without harm, scatters

into debris on the shore,

and a friend from school drops

cold on a rocky strand.

If a new love carries us

past middle age, our wife will die

at her strongest and most beautiful.

New women come and go. All go.

The pretty lover who announces

that she is temporary

is temporary. The bold woman,

middle-aged against our old age,

sinks under an anxiety she cannot withstand.

Another friend of decades estranges himself

in words that pollute thirty years.

Let us stifle under mud at the pond’s edge

and affirm that it is fitting

and delicious to lose everything.

Copyright Credit: Donald Hall, “Affirmation” from White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems, 1946-2006. Copyright © 2006 by Donald Hall. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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Respect.