As detailed, the cartoon, by Sean Delonas, was partially inspired by an actual chimpanzee attack which occurred at the same time as the signing of the Obama stimulus bill and was considered to possess racial undertones.
The Post editor-in-chief Col Allan claimed the cartoon was a parody of a current news event but Al Sharpton's response was that "it is troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of African-Americans as being synonymous with monkeys... Being that the stimulus bill has been the first legislative victory of President Barack Obama (the first African American president) and has become synonymous with him it is not a reach to wonder are they inferring that a monkey wrote the last bill?"
Now, why did I mention that?
This caricature:
(I scanned it as the connection wasn't working. Could Haaretz have disconnected it?)
How would you categorize a caricature that portrays Avigdor Liberman, Israel's Foreign Minister, as a dog on a leash?
If it was publish in an Arab newspaper, in a Neo-Nazi newspaper, we would probably hear of protests but it's in the Haaretz newspaper.
It's kosher, shamefully so.
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