It’s a cartoon. It may be in bad taste (and the timing was extraordinary - but that probably says more about the low-profile of UN Holocaust Memorial day in Britain than it does about endemic racism in the British media), but it’s just a cartoon trying to make a comment about Israeli politics. As Israeli politics has started it’s government forming phase, with Netanyahu trying to build a coalition, it seems relevant enough.
I live in Denmark and experienced the cartoon scandal a few years ago, when the entire Muslim world went nuts over a few cartoons of Mohammed, and showed that they have no sense of proportion or humor what-so-ever when it comes to their own feelings. Back then I thought it was another demonstration of Muslim backwardness and lack of our concepts of individual freedom, but now I’m not so sure.
‘low-profile of UN Holocaust Memorial day in Britain’
Low profile?.
British TV had Holocaust programmes on at least two of its five major terrestrial channels, and several of its cable/satellite channels. Many newspapers had articles about the Holocaust.
Holocaust Day is covered every year in the UK by the major media, so you are talking rubbish, mate.