Politico's Anti-Semitic Cartoon Sparks Outrage

0:00On March 29, Politico just pulled a cartoon that blew up for looking straight up anti-Semitic, showing President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drenched in blood at a table piled with cash bags. Netanyahu had an exaggerated nose, like those old, hateful drawings, with Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham thrown in, one holding a blood. Bottle, a rift on a 15th century painting called Ship of Fools, labeling their boat the ship of Neocons. The sketch dropped in Politico's weekly cartoon Roundup, right as tensions rage in the Middle East, with the US and Israel hitting Iran last month. Sparking missile swaps and Israel pushing into Lebanon against Hezbollah. Folks online lost a quick, calling it vile, and the worst anti-Semitic jab from a big outlet in years, especially near Passover. Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, dubbed it disgusting, and critics demanded the cartoonist Sean Dolonis get fired and banned. Politico yanked it fast, swapping in an editor's note saying it fell short of their standards on ethnic stereotypes and hateful tropes. They

1:04stressed the Roundup, just shows a range of views, not their own stamp of approval. Dolonis stayed quiet beyond pricing interviews, while Netanyahu announced plans to widen Israel's security zone in southern Lebanon, amid over 1,100 deaths there since the war kicked off. Trump claims security Ron talks are cooking to end the fight, but Tehran's foreign ministers shut that down cold, as the region's fire keeps spreading.