Steve Bell’s cartoons have been an important part of The Guardian over the past 40 years — we thank him and wish him all the best,” a spokesperson for the British newspaper told The Post.

Steve Bell has been dropped as a cartoonist by the Guardian newspaper, six months before his current contract is up, over a cartoon he submitted regarding the current Israel/Hamas conflict.

It is not the first time Mr Bell’s cartoons have caused controversy. In 2018, The Guardian refused to publish a drawing featuring former British prime minister Theresa May alongside Mr Netanyahu.

Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell revealed that his newspaper “effectively sacked” him after it refused to publish a work of his that it feared peddled in “anti-semitic tropes.” ...

But Steve Bell, who no longer has a regular cartooning gig, owns his own work and so has been able to collect his last six years' worth of strips for the newspaper in this new book.