'Would not have looked out of place on a white supremacist website': American Jewish Committee slams the New York Times' anti- Semitic cartoon of a blind Trump being led by 'guide dog' Netanyahu, as the paper apologizes AGAIN
- American Jewish Committee blasts New York Times on Sunday over anti-Semitic cartoon
- AJC says cartoon 'would not be out of place in a white supremacist web site'
- Times on Sunday published a statement apologizing for the cartoon after its explanation on Saturday was criticized as insufficient
- Bret Stephens, a Times op-ed columnist, wrote a piece slamming his employer over the cartoon on Sunday
- New York Times said Saturday its international edition deleted controversial cartoon
- Drawing shows 'blind' President Trump wearing Jewish skullcap while being led by 'guide dog' Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister
- Drawing was by Portuguese cartoonist António Moreira Antunes of the Lisbon-based Expresso newspaper
The New York Times has once again apologized for an anti-Semitic cartoon depicting President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Jewish organizations continued to voice anger on Sunday.
The American Jewish Committee slammed the Times, saying that it printed a cartoon ‘that would not have looked out of place on a white supremacist website’.
The Times on Saturday acknowledged that the cartoon ‘included anti-Semitic tropes’ and that the ‘image was offensive, and it was an error of judgment to publish it.’
‘Apology not accepted,’ the AJC tweeted in response to the Times’ clarification on Saturday.
The New York Times on Saturday said it deleted an anti-Semitic cartoon which depicts a blind President Trump with a Jewish skullcap being led by a 'guide dog,' Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
The American Jewish Committee released a statement saying it did not accept the Times' explanation on Saturday for printing the cartoon
‘The image was offensive, and it was an error of judgment to publish it,' the Times said on Saturday
In response to the continued outrage, the Times issued another statement on Sunday that had a more explicit apology
‘What does this say about your processes or your decision makers? How are you fixing it?’
The AJC then tweeted: ‘Naked antisemitism such as in this image is not “an error of judgment.”
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‘We have to wonder if the @nytimes editors would’ve published a similar cartoon depicting any other country or people.’
The continued uproar on Sunday prompted the Times to issue a longer, more detailed apology on Sunday.
‘We are deeply sorry for the publication of an anti-Semitic political cartoon last Thursday in the print edition of The New York Times that circulates outside of the United States, and we are committed to making sure nothing like this happens again,’ the Times Opinion section tweeted in a statement.
New York Times op-ed columnist Bret Stephens blasted his paper for the cartoon on Sunday
‘Such imagery is always dangerous, and at a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise worldwide, it’s all the more unacceptable.
‘We have investigated how this happened and learned that, because of a faulty process, a single editor working without adequate oversight downloaded the syndicated cartoon and made the decision to include it on the Opinion page.
‘The matter remains under review, and we are evaluating our internal processes and training.
‘We anticipate significant changes.’
The cartoon in question portrays President Trump as a blind man wearing a yarmulke while being led by a dog with Netanyahu’s face imposed on the pooch’s body.
A blue Star of David is seen dangling from Netanyahu’s ‘collar’ while Trump holds the leash.
The cartoon itself was drawn by political cartoonist António Moreira Antunes of the Lisbon, Portugal-based newspaper Expresso.
A New York Times op-ed columnist, Bret Stephens, wrote a piece blasting his employer over the cartoon.
Donald Trump Jr, the president’s eldest son, tweeted: ‘Disgusting. I have no words for flagrant anti-Semitism on display here. Imagine this was in something other than a leftist newspaper?’
Titled ‘A Despicable Cartoon in The Times,’ Stephens writes that the media’s ‘torrential criticism of Israel’ and ‘mainstreaming of anti-Zionism’ has desensitized people to its ‘inherent bigotry.’
‘I have now been with The Times for two years and I’m certain that the charge that the institution is in any way anti-Semitic is a calumny,’ Stephens writes.
The cartoon was drawn by political cartoonist Antonio Moreira Antunes of the Lisbon-based newspaper Expresso
‘But the publication of the cartoon isn’t just an “error of judgment,” either.
‘The paper owes the Israeli prime minister an apology.
‘It owes itself some serious reflection as to how it came to publish that cartoon - and how its publication came, to many longtime readers, as a shock but not a surprise.’
Donald Trump Jr, the president’s eldest son, tweeted on Saturday in response to the cartoon: ‘Disgusting. I have no words for flagrant anti-Semitism on display here.
‘Imagine this was in something other than a leftist newspaper?’
The cartoon was intended as a criticism of the Trump administration's perceived pro-Israel bias.
Palestinian leaders have said Trump cannot be an honest broker for peace after he broke with long-standing U.S. policy and recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in 2017 and moved the American embassy to the city last May.
Trump also established a precedent by recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau that Israel captured from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War.
