Review of Steve Bell’s ‘If…Stands Up’

“Pound of flesh.” “Sorry? You what?” “Pound of flesh; Jewish bloke; obvious anti-Semitic trope.” Recounted in If…Stands Up (Verso), that brief exchange is what ended cartoonist Steve Bell’s four-decade long association with the Guardian last October. Bell was fired (sacked in the parlance of those folks across the pond) over a cartoon of Israeli Prime [...]