New York Times Apologizes For Running Anti-Semitic Cartoon
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OPINION: The paper of record needs to reflect deeply on how it came to publish anti-Semitic propaganda.
As prejudices go, anti-Semitism can sometimes be hard to pin down, but on Thursday the opinion pages of The New York Times international edition provided a textbook illustration of it.
Except that The Times wasn’t explaining anti-Semitism. It was purveying it.
It did so in the form of a cartoon, provided to the newspaper by a wire service and published directly above an unrelated column by Tom Friedman, in which a guide dog with a prideful countenance and the face of Benjamin Netanyahu leads a blind, fat Donald Trump wearing...
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NY Times Opinion apologizes for cartoon depicting anti-Semitic tropes
The New York Times Opinion section on Saturday apologized for a political cartoon that included anti-Semitic tropes.
The image, published in the international print edition of Thursday’s paper, featured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a guide dog wearing a Star of David collar leading President Trump, who is wearing a skullcap and dark glasses.
“The image was offensive, and it was an error of judgment to publish it,” the newspaper said in a tweet. “It was provided by The New York Times News Service and Syndicate, which has since...
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New York Times says it is 'deeply sorry' for running anti-Semitic cartoon
After a barrage of criticism, the New York Times said Sunday it was deeply sorry about publishing an anti-Semitic cartoon depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a dog on a leash held by a blind President Donald Trump.
It is promising "significant changes" in its decision making process in the wake of the embarrassment.
The cartoon appeared in the opinion section of the international print edition of the paper next to a column by Thomas Friedman about immigration.
The Times apology came Sunday afternoon after it issued an earlier...
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