New York Times Ends Political Cartoons After Antisemitism Scandals

[Right_in_Virginia]

New York Times Ends Political Cartoons After Antisemitism Scandals
Breitbart, June 11, 2019

The international edition of the New York Times will no longer feature editorial cartoons. The move to self-censorship follows the uproar sparked by publication of a widely denounced antisemitic caricature of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The cartoon, published in April, depicted Netanyahu as a dog wearing a Star of David collar and leading a sightless U.S. President Donald Trump — who was wearing a Jewish skullcap.

he offensive piece was drawn by Portuguese artist António Moreira Antunesas and published during the Passover holiday.

The cartoon prompted an uproar within the Jewish community and sparked protests outside the Times’ office in New York City, with Israel’s ambassador to the U.N. likening it to the content of Nazi propaganda newspaper Der Sturmer.

Blaming its publication on “a production editor who did not recognize its anti-Semitism,” the paper was eventually forced into a backdown:  […]

Now it has moved beyond apology to giving up altogether on the notion of publishing editorial cartoons.

Editor James Bennet explained the paper had planned for a year to cease running political cartoons in the international print version of the Times, in line with the U.S. edition.
 
The decision will come into effect on July 1, Bennet said in a Monday statement.

New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger announced in May that the editor who published the original cartoon would be disciplined.


https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2019/06/11/international-new-york-times-ends-political-cartoons-after-antisemitism-row/

[Cyber Liberty]

Alrighty, then....

[Wingnut]

Alrighty, then....

All those Mohammed Toones they printed must have been the breaking point

[Cyber Liberty]

All those Mohammed Toones they printed must have been the breaking point

They're blaming....Da Jooos!

[Wingnut]

They're blaming....Da Jooos!

It's always the Joos fault.  Big Mo is so dissed by the print media.  You can't open a paper without seeing his face these days.

[Fishrrman]

Title:
"New York Times Ends Political Cartoons After Antisemitism Scandals..."

The title that I'm waiting to see:
"New York Times Ends..."

[mountaineer]

The title that I'm waiting to see:
"New York Times Ends..."

... with a whimper.

[mountaineer]

In Our Humorless Age, The New York Times Has Cancelled Political Cartoons
The political cartoon has always been a dangerous polemic tool. The New York Times has decided that in our politically correct time it's too hot to handle.
By David Marcus   
June 11, 2019

The political cartoon has a long and storied history in the United States. But according to a blog post by New York Times cartoonist Patrick Chappette, he has been informed that his artwork will no longer run at the Grey Lady, as the paper has decided not to run cartoons anymore.

The decision comes in the wake of justified outrage over a recent anti-Semitic cartoon that ran in the Times’s international edition. That cartoon featured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a dog leading a blind Donald Trump.  ...

We need comedy and cartoons. We always have, whether in ancient Greece or modern midtown Manhattan. We need to laugh at ourselves, at the absurd condition we find ourselves puttering around in. That the New York Times has acquiesced to fear and decided to stop running political cartoons is a shame, but a likely one.

But at least for the near future we can still count on The New Yorker to run incomprehensible cartoons. Those should be safe, because if nobody knows what they mean, nobody can be offended. Probably.

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