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Saturday, 15 June 2019

New York Times cartoon ban leads to a world where we say nothing at all | Kenan Malik

In a world where political cartoonists are routinely jailed, the paper should show more courage

What does a newspaper do if it publishes an antisemitic cartoon? Determine that it won’t do so again? Or stop publishing cartoons? The New York Times appears to have taken the second route.

In April, its international edition (which is distinct from its US edition) ran a syndicated cartoon by the Portuguese cartoonist António Moreira Antunes that depicted the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, as a guide dog leading a blind Donald Trump wearing a yarmulke.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2ILRpxg

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