2023-10-28 16:55:06
“I completely agree with Zerocalcare’s decision. I want to specify that I have never met him in person, I know his work, I appreciate it very much and I also really appreciate this position of his.” Vauro told time.news, thus commenting on Zerocalcare’s decision to boycott the ‘Lucca Comics and Games’, where the cartoonist was a highly anticipated guest, due to the sponsorship of the event by the Israeli embassy. “We heard the former Israeli ambassador on a television program talking about ‘destroying Gaza’, not Hamas, Gaza – says Vauro – And the Israeli embassy sponsors Lucca Comics”.
In this “terrifying logic that has been accompanying us for years, according to which ‘either you are with us or against us, starting from ‘vax – no vax’, ‘pro-Putin’, ‘pro-Hamas’, and so on, Zerocalcare was instrumentally attacked for not mentioning the horrors committed by Hamas on 7 October – continues the well-known cartoonist – But what is happening in Gaza is horrible just as the attacks of 7 October are horrible”.
“We must not enter – explains Vauro – into a logic where there is a competition to see who commits the most horrors and which leads us to take one side or the other. No, we must understand the reasons and condemn anyone who perpetrates these horrors. Including that of Hamas, certainly.” So “I repeat: maximum appreciation for Zerocalcare’s gesture. I have nothing to do with comics, but if I had been invited to Lucca Comics I would have done the same thing”, concludes Vauro.
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