-New York Times Under Fire for Printing ‘Anti-Semitic’ Cartoon Depicting Trump, Netanyahu
BY JANITA KAN-
April 27, 2019 Updated: April 27, 2019
The New York Times opinion section is facing backlash after running a political cartoon depicting President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the newspaper admitted contained “anti-semitic tropes” and “was offensive.”
The cartoon, which was printed in the opinion section of its international edition of the paper on April 25, shows Trump wearing sunglasses and a kippah being led by a dog with a Star of David for a collar and Netanyahu’s face. The image appeared next to a column penned by Thomas Friedman, according to screengrabs of the page.
Many social media users and commentators have condemned the political cartoon. Moreover, the Jerusalem Post reported that Ambassador Dani Dayan, Consul General of Israel in New York even reached out to the Times to express his outrage for running the cartoon and calling it unacceptable.
The op-ed editor for the Jerusalem Post Seth Frantzman wrote a series of posts to criticize the Times.
“It’s not enough to just remove the cartoon and be like ‘whoops,’ there need to be answers and also a deep reflection on why and how this happened. The public should be involved. This is not an ‘Israel’ issue; it’s much larger,” Frantzman wrote.
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