THE APTLY NAMED BASIC LAW:

Last July, a few days after the controversial Jewish Nation-State bill was voted into law, the Jerusalem Report magazine fired its longtime cartoonist Avi Katz for drawing the legislation's champions as pigs from George Orwell's 1945 classic "Animal Farm."

Above the illustration, Katz wrote the book's most famous line, "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."

One can argue over whether it's ever appropriate to draw Jews as pigs. But in Orwell's novel, they represent a corrupt ruling class claiming that all animals have the same rights when really they don't, and that was clearly the point Katz wanted to make.

Comments Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made over the weekend about the law suggest that Katz's illustration was spot-on, with the premier's explanation of what the legislation means regarding equality reflecting that of the pigs in "Animal Farm."

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