The New York Times has admitted to “an error of judgment” in running a political cartoon in its international edition depicting Benjamin Netanyahu as a dog with a Star of David collar leading a blind and kipah-wearing Donald Trump.
The admission followed an international outcry, with Dan Shapiro, the former US Ambassador to Israel, among those expressing disgust.
“There is really no excuse for the New York Times to publish such a blatantly antisemitic image,” he tweeted. “Not acceptable in any way."
Advocacy group the American Jewish Committee declared that “naked antisemitism such as this is not ‘an error of judgment’. We have to wonder if the editors would’ve published a similar cartoon depicting any other country or people.”
