Netanyahu cartoon sparks anger, Murdoch says sorry. - Polidicks

[QUOTE] [url]http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/29/world/europe/scarfe-murdoch-apology/index.html?hpt=ieu_c2[/url] Rupert Murdoch has apologized for a "grotesque, offensive" cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published in Britain's Sunday Times. The cartoon by Gerald Scarfe depicts Netanyahu atop an incomplete brick wall with screaming Palestinians and body parts in the mortar. Netanyahu is holding what appears to be a bloody builder's trowel and the wall's mortar is colored red. The wording beneath reads: "Israeli Elections, Will Cementing Peace Continue?" The cartoon was published on Holocaust Memorial Day on Sunday and prompted complaints that it was anti-Semitic and insensitive.[/QUOTE] [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Search before you post" - Orkel))[/highlight]

here's the cartoon [img]http://i.imgur.com/95S0mmu.jpg[/img]

It's pretty accurate though

I'm tempted to make a Pink Floyd reference because it's by Gerald Scarfe and it involves a wall.

I love how criticizing Netanyahu automatically means you are antisemitic. What a crock of shit.

What I really laughed at was the representative that appeared on the news who denied that Israel violated any human rights at all

So he apologizes for this and not the whole [I]international phone tapping scandal?[/I] Also side note, Gerald Scarfe is fucking awesome.

Complaining about it evidently is a good way to give it publicity. Insensitive most likely but to claim that this is anti-semitic is really stretching it as there is depiction of semitism, just that prime minister.

[QUOTE=Talishmar;39429459]Complaining about it evidently is a good way to give it publicity. [B]Insensitive most likely[/B] but to claim that this is anti-semitic is really stretching it as there is depiction of semitism, just that prime minister.[/QUOTE] Not even insensitive. [editline]31st January 2013[/editline] I'd rather not withhold criticism of oppressive regimes that carry out human rights violations on a daily basis because I will offend their leader's "sensibilities"

[QUOTE=Phycosymo;39428566]I'm tempted to make a Pink Floyd reference because it's by Gerald Scarfe and it involves a wall.[/QUOTE] I think he already did that for you

[QUOTE=Phycosymo;39428566]I'm tempted to make a Pink Floyd reference because it's by Gerald Scarfe and it involves a wall.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=koeniginator;39428535]here's the cartoon [img]http://i.imgur.com/95S0mmu.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] i fucking love gerald scarfe. [editline]31st January 2013[/editline] thing is. it's true.

What happened to Freedom of the Press?

[QUOTE=Talishmar;39429459] Insensitive most likely but to claim that this is anti-semitic is really stretching it as there is depiction of semitism, just that prime minister.[/QUOTE] If you violate human rights, fuck your feelings. You deserve every bit of shit thrown at you.

I thought of the Greedy Jew pic when I read the title