the staff of the Ridgewood blog
New York NY, In Thursday’s international edition of The New York Times, featured a cartoon with “anti-Semitic tropes” it portrayed a blind President Trump led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu depicted as a dog with a Star of David collar around its neck.
The cartoon appeared in the April 25 international edition and coincided with the end of the Passover holiday and Shabbat, two days many observant Jews were not online.
“Let’s see, The New York Times publishes a deeply anti-Semitic editorial cartoon that encourages readers to make even more anti-Semitic comments, then a racist thug in the San Diego area shoots up a synagogue killing one person after posting a screed calling President Trump an Israeli stooge. The Times did offer a half-hearted apology for the cartoon, but that’s no excuse for the incredibly stupid and deliberately blind-to-the-obvious decision to publish it in the first place. ” SSC
Over the years the New York Times has been accused of being anti-Israel and anti-Semitic . This cartoon “faux pas” is just the latest in a series of missteps that the New York Times has made is a city that more Jews call home than Israel .
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