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Carlos Latuff is a political cartoonist, born in November 30, 1968, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the author of the famous "We are all Palestinians" series, depicting oppressed people of the world over history (Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, Blacks in South Africa and so on), and comparing them to Palestinians. Latuff's works have been published on different Indymedia websites and on the Gush Shalom website, as well.

Latuff has been criticized by Jewish and Israel supporters for alleged anti-Semitism in some of his cartoons, as well as for collaborating with such organizations as The Alternative Information Center, Gush Shalom, Peace Now and Neturei Karta, an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish group which rejects all forms of Zionism.

One of the well known allegations of anti-Semitism regarding Latuff's art was raised by Swiss-based Jewish organization "Aktion Kinder des Holocaust" in 2002. The subject was the last cartoon of "We are all Palestinians"series (published in Switzerland Indymedia), depicting a Jewish boy in Warsaw Ghetto saying: "I am Palestinian."

Criminal proceedings which AKdH had instituted against Indymedia and the Brazilian cartoonist were suspended by Swiss court. In the official judgement, it is said:

Even if the observer is emotionally biased against the Jewish people with this , it is not the Jewish people as such that is being criticized, but their political behaviour towards the Palestinians. The issue is not a certain characterization of the Jews, but their stance in the current conflict. The constitutional equality of the Jews as human beings is thereby not denied. (p.2, paragraph 1.2.)

In February 2006, Latuff had one of his artworks published in an Iranian Web site for cartoonists, "Iran Cartoon", which launched a contest for cartoons about the Holocaust, in response to a series of caricatures about the Prophet Mohammed. Latuff's cartoon depicts an old man wearing a Nazi-era concentration camp uniform, with the Israeli "Separation Wall" and guard tower in the background. On his chest is a red Muslim crescent with a letter "P" for Palestinian: "http://www.infoshop.org/graphics/latuff/Holocaust.gif"

External links

• Latuff Galleries: 1 , 2.
• Latuff's Mail Art
• Zapatista Art Gallery, hosted by Frente Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional
• Latuff at Vietnam Veterans Home Page
• Forgiveness series
• We are all Palestinians series
• Some of Latuff's works, at Gush Shalom website
• Photo of Latuff with Leila Khaled.

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