Posted on 05/02/2019 4:39:55 PM PDT by SJackson
António Moreira Antunes, the artist who drew the anti-Semitic cartoon in the New York Times, told CNN Wednesday that the outrage over his image came from the “Jewish propaganda machine.”
The cartoon depicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a dog guiding a blind, yarmulke-wearing President Donald Trump. Myriad Jewish organizations and individuals, including Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt and American Jewish Committee CEO David Harris, condemned the cartoon as being anti-Semitic.
Antunes told CNN that his cartoon was a commentary on the relationship between Trump and Netanyahu and not intentionally anti-Semitic. He added, “the Jewish propaganda machine” spins any sort of criticism against Israel as stemming from “someone anti-Semitic on the other side, and that’s not the case.
“The Jewish right doesn’t want to be criticized, and therefore, when criticized they say, ‘We are a persecuted people, we suffered a lot… this is anti-Semitism,'” Antunes said.
The Times issued an apology on April 28 and on April 30 published an editorial highlighting the rise of anti-Semitism worldwide. In it, the editorial acknowledged that “anti-Zionism can clearly serve as a cover for anti-Semitism — and some criticism of Israel, as the cartoon demonstrated, is couched openly in anti-Semitic terms.”
Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger, sent a memo to staff members Wednesday stating disciplinary action would be taken against the production editor who greenlit the cartoon. The editor has not been publicly identified. Sulzberger added in the memo that the Times’ bias training will have a “direct focus on anti-Semitism” going forward.
Sometimes it’s just best to shut-up.
OR YOU ARE JUST AN ANTI-SEMITE.
Think about it.
Then shut the Fucik up!
.... So .... Does that same cartoonist blame the ‘Islamic Propaganda Machine’ for Criticism Over the “Charlie Hebdo” et-al Cartoons???
.... I expect the answer is no.
I'm neither Jewish nor Muslim, but I know "Anti-Semitic" when I see it!
You know, you can pretty much guarantee that if this fine fellow didn’t know that the so-called “progressives”, the so-called “intelligentsia”, most of the mainstream media and a very large chunk of the left wing didn’t have his back on this, he wouldn’t DARE to double-down like that.
As it is, he knows he’s pretty safe expressing viewpoints like that, seeing as Anti-Semitism has moved beyond merely trendy and into the realm of progressive sacred cow.
“Jewish propaganda machine” is exactly the kind of term I would expect a Joooooo-hater to use.
Isn’t that right, António Moreira Antunes?
Yeah, he knows what he did.
Has he quoted The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion yet?
I say you’ll find a copy, somewhere, in his stack of books.
“Jewish propaganda machine.”
Sounds like the cretins that shoot up synagogues.
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Yup, the Jews hypnotized the media. Again.
He’s basically saying the Nazis were right: those Jews are out to get us. We better do something about ‘em.
Of course not.
Just like the Gays and Transgendered
He as born this way.
He works for or sells through an agency. He had no way of knowing the NYT would pick his cartoon up, any more than the NYT figured running the cartoon outside the US would create controversy here. I’ve no idea how many, but other European media must have used the cartoon, else he’d be out of a job. And no one complained there. Only the Zionist dominated Americans. Almost worth another cartoon. Ironically it’s estimated that 20% of the Portugese population have Jewish ancestors, and like Spain the nation is trying to attract Jews to return. Guess he didn’t get the message.
He is. Like Rashida Tlid and Ilhan Omar. And other members of the House, who are not cartoonists. Though I can think of a few who qualify as cartoon characters.
Here’s an idea, António. How about you publish a cartoon of a blind Ayatollah being led by a dog with Muhammed’s face with a cute star and crescent on the dog’s collar. See how that works out for you.
Once again, it’s da Joos.
António Moreira Antunes. What is that? Congolese, or something.
Tells me he's not ignorant of visual history, knew exactly what his cartoon was saying, and he doesn't much like Jews and Israel. 1982, long time Jew hater.
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