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[IsraelTimes] Dr. Rafael Medoff says editor at Dark Horse Comics demanded book on Nazi genocide include anti-Israel genocide chargesA US publisher canceled a book about the Holocaust because the author refused to add text denouncing Israel to the book, the StandWithUS advocacy group said this week.
Dark Horse Comics
…the fourth largest comic book publisher in America, known for Hellboy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Master of the Universe, among many others since its founding in 1986. It was bought out by Swedish gaming company Embracer Group in 2022, which may explain the unconscionable bullying by the editor who already published two successful books on the subject with this author…
was scheduled to publish the book, "Cartoonists Against the Holocaust," by Dr. Rafael Medoff, this summer, but informed the author’s team last month that publication had been canceled.The book uses 150 editorial cartoons that had been printed in US newspapers in the Nazi era, alongside commentary from Medoff, to show what Americans knew about the Holocaust at the time.
An editor at Dark Horse last year told Medoff that he would add a statement to the book accusing US President Donald Trump
...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania...
of "attempting to create concentration camp-style prisons," among other offenses, according to correspondence shared by StandWithUs.
The proposed addition also included a paragraph condemning Israel.
"A country populated by a [sic.] ethnoreligious group who were immorally and horrifically tortured and killed in the Holocaust for their ethnicity is led by a Prime Minister that the world’s top war crimes court has issued warrants for his alleged acts of war crimes an [sic.] crimes against humanity," the paragraph said.
In a response emailed to the editor, Medoff pushed back against "politicizing our book" and called the claims "factually inaccurate."
The email also said that, during a phone conversation, the editor had demanded Medoff accuse Israel of genocide in the book’s introduction to prevent people from getting "mad."
Medoff said the editor’s proposals amounted to minimizing the Nazi genocide and Holocaust inversion.
"What you are saying, in plain English, is that the Jews were victims of the Holocaust and now the Jews are committing another Holocaust," Medoff wrote. "I understand it has become fashionable in certain circles today to accuse Israel of mass murder. But being fashionable is not the same as being right."
Dark Horse had previously published two books by Medoff, both of which came out before the October 7, 2023, Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...onslaught and the ensuing war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
and across the Middle East.
Presumably they were financially as well as critically successful, or the third in the series would not have been approved. Unless the whole thing was the editor’s vanity project, and the new owners are more interested in the bottom line, and thought lying the best way to make more money.
The editor, Craig Yoe, ….among other things, he dropped out of college to protest the Vietnam War, and later was the creative director and general manager of the Muppets…
told The New York Post that there were "a number of errors" in Medoff’s description of the dispute, without providing further details, and Dark Horse declined to comment.Related: The last book the two did together, Cartoonists Against Racism: The Secret Jewish War on Bigotry, is available from Amazon here, and lists a publication date of July 2, 2024, so presumably the pre-10/7 date is when the thing was approved for publication.
StandWithUs has more on the story here.
StandWithUs has more on the story here.