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Ed Condemnations of New York Times for antisemitic cartoon

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https://m.jpost.com/Diaspora/Antise...ations-of-NYT-for-anti-Semitic-cartoon-588044

"The growing list of global condemnations from different sides of the political spectrum and from politicians and journalists illustrate the wide-ranging impact the cartoon has had. Published in Thursday’s print edition during the end of Passover, it was not widely noticed until Friday night. The paper removed it online on Saturday."

And I'm sure every member here will condemn this as well no doubt.:thumbsup:
 
Here is the cartoon...
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I join the condemnation of all-caps thread titles, but I don't understand what makes the cartoon Anti-Semitic.

The symbol became representative of the worldwide Zionist community, and later the broader Jewish community, after it was chosen as the central symbol on a flag at the First Zionist Congress in 1897.
Star of David (Wikipedia)
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And Judaism doesn't consider dogs to be impure.


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If some folks perceive it as anti-Semitic, they are free to do so. But I don’t see why criticism of Mr. Netanyahu (or Israel) has to be viewed as anti-Semitism. The cartoon itself might be in bad taste and terribly offensive, as is the growing anti-Semitism in Europe and elsewhere, but it appears to be legitimate criticism of two flawed national leaders and not of a religion and its supporters.
Letters: The Uproar Over an Anti-Semitic Cartoon (NYT, April 29, 2019)
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condemnation of all-caps title MULTIPLIED!

Also, why do they paint Netanyahoo as a Dackel (Dachshund)? Shouldn't he be a German Shepherd or something?
 
Cariacature has to be done carefully when depicting people where there is significant prior historical cariacature baggage.
 
The cartoonist is António Moreira Antunes. The name was unfamiliar to me so I did a quick Google and did a quick skim of what came up.

Antunes is being accused in a number of places of having a controversial history regarding anti-semitism, but most of the articles I saw (a) didn't identify him, (b) didn't clearly identify past incidences of anti-semitic things he'd said, and (c) didn't link to a place where his work was available so people could check for themselves.

One site which did provide some of these details is The Daily Cartoonist, which posted an article defending Antunes. It appears to be worth a read for those interested in learning a bit more about Antunes.

The Daily Cartoonist said:
Naturally when this cartoon issue came up reporters and zealots alike started to dig through past cartoons by Antunes to find similar samples of what they consider anti-Semitism...

The Jerusalem Post did some digging. Its report is headlined: Cartoonist behind ‘NYT’ caricature has history of controversy

Now just what political cartoonist, with a 45 year career, doesn’t have controversy in their past?

But The Post did find an anti-Semitic cartoon and touted it in their sub-head: António Moreira Antunes drew ire with 1983 award-winning depiction of Israel and Lebanon...

That’s right – they had to go back 35 years to find a cartoon that depicted Israel harshly.

According to a JTA report from July 1983, the cartoon depicted “Israeli soldiers tormenting Lebanese women and children” in a depiction reminiscent of a famed photo of Nazis tormenting Jews during the Holocaust.

That cartoon, by the way, “won [António] the top prize at the 20th International Salon of Cartoons in Montreal that year.”
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You can see that 1983 cartoon at the link I provided.

edited to add: Oops, my mistake. The article at the link contains the photo Antunes based that 1983 cartoon on, not the 1983 cartoon itself. My apologies -- posted hastily as need to be offline doing other things.

edited to add: Double oops. The image in the article is indeed Antunes' cartoon, as it contains his signature in the lower right-hand corner. So let me un-strike what I originally said: You can see that 1983 cartoon at the link I provided. (However, the date Antunes wrote on the cartoon appears to be 1982, not 1983.) Here's a link to a larger image of that older cartoon.
 
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Belz... said:
INDEED I WAS.... sorry. Indeed I was wondering the same thing. But any joke or insult thrown at someone even vaguely Jewish is antisemitic nowadays.
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Ah, cargo-cult anti bigotry.

(Is the actual cartoon available to view?)
 
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sadhatter said:
According to?
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Common sense? Not every human action has to done or can only be done by virtue of some authority with power to enforce it. Nobody's stopping you from publishing as many Sambo Obama cartoons as you like, but you won't get much sympathy for being surprised when the criticism (and CONDEMNATION) rolls in.
 
Nova Land said:
One site which did provide some of these details is The Daily Cartoonist, which posted an article defending Antunes. It appears to be worth a read for those interested in learning a bit more about Antunes.
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I read it. I don't accept his excuses. In particular, I note that he gives no reason for putting a yarmulke on Trump. It doesn't help to identify Trump, as he claims the Star of David helps identify Netanyahu, and it's inaccurate as Trump neither wears one nor is Jewish. And even for the purposes of identifying Netanyahu, an Israeli flag would have served better than just a star of David, especially if the goal is supposedly a critique of Israel as a country and not Jews as a religion/people.

And his 1983 cartoon is an absolutely textbook example of antisemitism. That this issue appears not to be an obsession of his doesn't change the fact that both cartoons are antisemitic.
 
Childlike Empress said:
condemnation of all-caps title MULTIPLIED!

Also, why do they paint Netanyahoo as a Dackel (Dachshund)? Shouldn't he be a German Shepherd or something?
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Seems like you have an issue with the way the Jerusalem Post has its head line in all-caps.

Is there anything those crafty Jooos won't do?
 
Thank you. For some reason I couldn't see that...

Isn't this just mocking the individuals involved? Surely mockery of high profile individuals is allowed?

I might be missing something.
 
3point14 said:
Thank you. For some reason I couldn't see that...

Isn't this just mocking the individuals involved? Surely mockery of high profile individuals is allowed?

I might be missing something.
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I guess mocking people for being Jewish isn't a good idea I think there's a name for that
 
applecorped said:
Seems like you have an issue with the way the Jerusalem Post has its head line in all-caps.
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I don't regularly read the Jerusalem (or your) Post while I do read the ISF.

edit: While the headline of the Jerusalem Post article linked in the OP is all-caps, it is (at least while I'm writing this, and judged by the URL has always been) completely different from the title of this thread.
 
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