New York Times apologises for ‘anti-Semitic’ portrayal of Trump, Netanyahu in cartoon



The American Jewish Committee has refused to accept an apology after a major US paper published an “anti-Semitic” cartoon.

The New York Times issued an apology over an offensive cartoon the publication ran in its international edition on April 25, which was later pulled because of its “anti-Semitic tropes”.

The cartoon, showing the Israeli prime minister personified as a sausage dog wearing a Star of David on its collar leading President Donald Trump wearing a black suit, black sunglasses and yarmulke on his head, has been slammed for its anti-Semitic undertones, reports Newsweek.

“Apology not accepted,” a spokesman for the American Jewish Committee said.

“How many New York Times editors looked at a cartoon that would not have looked out of place on a white supremacist website and thought it met the paper’s editorial standards?

“Disgusting. I have no words for flagrant anti-Semitism on display here,” the president’s son tweeted. “Imagine this was in something other than a leftist newspaper?”

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