a political cartoon¶
In 10th grade, I drew a political cartoon for the school newspaper that caused the administration to make me apologize in front of the entire school.
Later, the principal sat me down to privately apologize for overreacting. https://t.co/ULPa7zXtX7 I didn't specify what the cartoon was, because it's shameful.
Every year, my ultra-Orthodox Jewish school would organize a propaganda trip to Israel to convince 11th graders to move there instead of going to college. That year, they decided they couldn't afford it anymore. So I drew a picture of a bridge between America and Israel -- a banner of which was a prominent fixture in this Zionist cult school -- but the bridge was broken, and people were falling off of it. They approved it because they thought it was a statement about "deteriorating conditions between America and Israel". I just wanted to go on vacation.
They kicked me off the paper, publicly shamed me, and also... I didn't even like Israel anymore by the time it was published.