European Jewish Congress Calls Sunday Times Cartoon on Holocaust Remembrance Day “Sickening and Offensive”.
European Jewish Congress President Dr. Moshe Kantor called for the an apology from the Sunday Times, which published a cartoon on International Holocaust Remembrance Day of Israeli Prime Minister building a wall on the bodies of Palestinians depicting their blood as cement.
“This cartoon would be offensive at any time of the year, but to publish it on International Holocaust Remembrance Day is sickening and expresses a deeply troubling mindset” Dr. Kantor said. “This insensitivity demands an immediate apology from both the cartoonist and the paper’s editors.”
“Amazingly, as this cartoon was published days after the only democracy in the Middle East, Israel, underwent fully democratic elections, as others in the Middle East were being butchered by the tens of thousands, the Sunday Times focuses its imagination solely on the Jewish State. This contravenes many of the criteria laid out in EUMC’s Working Definition of Antisemitism and is part of a worrying trend to legitimize the growing assault on Israel by opinion-shapers.”
