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Swedish paper criticized for 'anti-Semitic' Trump cartoon
TheLocal.se ^ | 21 Nov 2016 17:30 GMT+01:00

Posted on 11/21/2016 6:04:57 PM PST by Olog-hai

A Swedish newspaper has been criticized for running a cartoon of Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President-elect Donald Trump in which the two are being carried by an Orthodox Jew, a KKK member and a gun-carrying figure branded with the Israeli flag, with critics calling the drawing anti-Semitic.

A speech bubble placed above the two politicians in the Dagens Nyheter (DN) drawing says “Finally!” in Swedish (“Äntligen”).

An image of the cartoon started to spread on Twitter over Sunday and Monday. Journalist Annika H Rothstein called it “anti-Semitic”, as did Swedish writer Rebecca Weidmo Uvell.

When Weidmo Uvell sent a tweet to a DN account asking “how can you publish clearly anti-Semitic propaganda? Jews carrying Trump together with the KKK? Please explain,” the account replied “Netanyahu has celebrated Trump’s victory despite Trump’s rhetoric and the enthusiastic support he has received in the USA from the white power movement”. …

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; rop; sweden; trump

1 posted on 11/21/2016 6:04:57 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Sounds like a good excuse for outrage!


2 posted on 11/21/2016 6:48:28 PM PST by 6ppc (It's torch and pitchfork time)
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To: Olog-hai

More hateful leftist filth from media Eurotrash.


3 posted on 11/21/2016 6:53:23 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: Olog-hai

From the rape capital of Europe.

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4 posted on 11/21/2016 6:54:55 PM PST by Mears
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To: Olog-hai

Sounds like the sort of lame-ass “cartoon” you’d see in a college newspaper.


5 posted on 11/21/2016 8:19:04 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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