Two Jewish leaders denounced a Boston Globe editorial cartoon that they said uses a caricature of Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson with antisemitic tropes.
The cartoon that appeared Friday, Dec. 1 was titled “Murder on the
tax-cut express” and shows Adelson aboard a train conducted by President
Donald Trump labeled as riding in the section for “priority
passengers.” Adelson is shown in a dining car reading a newspaper
headlined “Estate Tax Repealed,” and a waiter is serving him a large
sack labeled “$14.6 billion.” In a letter to the editor published Monday in the newspaper, Robert
Trestan, regional director of the New England region of the
Anti-Defamation League, and Jeremy Burton, executive director of the
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston, said they were
“deeply disturbed and offended” by the Ward Sutton cartoon. “The portrayal — singling out, among all the donors and interests who
stand to benefit, a prominent Jewish individual, Sheldon Adelson;
depicting him with an exaggerated hooked nose; linking him with money;
and positioning him as hidden inside the train while others conduct —
evokes classic anti-Semitic imagery and reinforces existing
stereotypes,” they wrote. “At a time when hatred and bigotry of all forms are seeping into the mainstream, it is critical that the Globe
and other responsible media outlets refrain from giving additional aid
to those who no doubt will see this cartoon’s publication as further
verification of long-established anti-Semitic views.” The U.S. Senate early Saturday morning passed a sweeping tax bill
along party lines that critics charge would benefit the wealthy and
raise taxes on the middle class. Published on December 6th, 2017
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