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Jeet Heer is a Toronto based journalist who focuses on arts and culture. His articles have appeared in The National Post, Slate.com, the Boston Globe, The Walrus, the Literary Review of Canada, This Magazine, Books in Canada and Toro. He is also finishing a doctoral thesis at York University on the cultural politics of Little Orphan Annie.

Jeet Heer is co-editor, with Kent Worcester, of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2004). With Chris Ware and Chris Oliveros, he is editing a series of volumes reprinting Frank King�s Gasoline Alley, two volumes of which have been published: Walt and Skeezix: Book One (Montr�al: Drawn and Quarterly, 2005), Walt and Skeezix: Book Two (Drawn and Quarterly, 2006). He has written introductory essays to the following books: George Herriman�s Krazy and Ignatz 1935-1936 (Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2005), George Herriman�s Krazy and Ignatz 1939-1940 (Fantagraphics, 2007) and Clare Briggs�s Oh Skin-nay (Drawn and Quarterly, 2007).

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Thursday, January 15, 2009
Israel: Losing the PR war and the Diaspora
(13 comments) for all its tactical skills in turning Gaza into a charnel house, Israel is facing a serious strategic loss on the battlefield of public perception. As it did in earlier wars where Israel killed large numbers of civilians, global public opinion is cooling toward the Jewish state, which runs the risk of becoming an international pariah, particularly among young Jews in North America, who are more critical than their elders