ABSTRACT
The humour in Boukhari’s political cartoons during the Palestinian uprising of 2000 and its aftermath demonstrates their use not just as a pictorial form of Palestinian national narrative but also as a vehicle to ridicule the Israeli other and to ‘magnify’ the immoral treatment of the Palestinian people by reading the signs of the coloniser and reformulating them. Palestinian political cartoons have lacked proper research to trace their impact on viewers within the colonial condition and their peculiar amalgam of myths. The apparent ‘unique universal characteristics’ of political cartoons have, no doubt, helped cartoonists to establish their own ‘higher artistic truth’. Boukhari’s cartoons often assume a factual appearance on which to play out the ritual dramas of political issues, events and characters.
