Sunday Times presenterte idag en tegning av Benjamin Netanyahu som bygger en høy mur med kroppene til døde palestinere. Han er utstyrt med en stor rød kroknese. På Holocaust-dagen virker en slik tegning ytterst usmakelig i en europeisk storavis. Hva var poenget?

A cartoon depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu building a wall with the blood and bodies of Palestinians, published on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, led to accusations of anti-Semitism against London’s Sunday Times newspaper.

Underneath the image, which shows the prime minister as a muscular, angry figure with a large, bulbous red nose, the caption reads, “Will cementing peace continue?”

The Sunday Times said the cartoon was not anti-Semitic but critical of Netanyahu’s policies.

But Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel office, called the picture “absolutely disgusting.”

Zuroff told The Times of Israel that it is “shocking” that The Sunday Times “has the incredible gall to publish such an anti-Semitic caricature of Netanyahu,” specifically on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is observed in Britain.

The picture “makes all the talk of fighting anti-Semitism seem irrelevant,” Zuroff said, adding that The Sunday Times represents “mainline British society.”

Michael Salberg, the Anti-Defamation League’s director of international affairs, also slammed the cartoon, calling on The Sunday Times to apologize.

“The Sunday Times has clearly lost its moral bearings, publishing a cartoon with a blatantly anti-Semitic theme and motif which is a modern day evocation of the ancient ‘blood libel’ charge leveled at Jews,” he said in an emailed statement. “This is the stuff which historically justified hatred of Jews and led to the wholesale slaughter of Jews.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/outcry-over-uk-papers-cartoon-showing-bloody-israeli-oppression/