January 31, 2013

Netanyahu cartoon sparks anger, Murdoch says sorry


http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/29/world/europe/scarfe-murdoch-apology/index.html?hpt=ieu_c2

Rupert Murdoch has apologized for a "grotesque, offensive" cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published in Britain's Sunday Times.
The cartoon by Gerald Scarfe depicts Netanyahu atop an incomplete brick wall with screaming Palestinians and body parts in the mortar. Netanyahu is holding what appears to be a bloody builder's trowel and the wall's mortar is colored red. The wording beneath reads: "Israeli Elections, Will Cementing Peace Continue?"
The cartoon was published on Holocaust Memorial Day on Sunday and prompted complaints that it was anti-Semitic and insensitive.

7 comments:

  1. muh 6 million jews

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  2. dude, whole world is fall apart, and you make your version for an antisemitic cartoon?
    yea, that what i call "european way of thinking".


    and yes, I am a jew.

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    1. I believe we've yet to draw a comic that's not offensive.

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    2. Crticising Israel's foreign policy is not antisemitic.

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    3. "Crticising Israel's foreign policy is not antisemitic." (2)

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  3. Crticising Israel's foreign policy is not antisemitic. True.
    But painting a cartoon of a jew, with a huge nose, evil look and using women and children blood's for build houses in the international memory day to the holocaust is, well, antisemitic.

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    1. well thats what they are doing, they supposed to follow 1967 border.
      besides arabs and palistinians are semitic people too
      antsemitic to only refer to hebrews and not the others is antisemitc

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