The Guardian has deleted and apologized for a Martin Rowson cartoon of outgoing BBC Chairman Richard Sharp after the image was accused of evoking anti-Semitic tropes. The British broadsheet newspap…
The British broadsheet newspaper removed the cartoon from its website on Saturday following a social media backlash, in which figures from the Jewish community voiced their shock.after he failed to properly declare his role in facilitating an £800,000 loan guarantee for former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Rowson’s illustration pictured a grinning caricature of Sharp, who is Jewish. He has an enlarged nose and is carrying a Goldman Sachs office box, apparently stuffed with gold and a squid. The Goldman Sachs box is a reference to Sharp’s former employer, which was famously described by Rolling Stone as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”, an author who specializes in anti-Semitism. They have been used to depict the conspiracy theory that powerful Jewish forces have their tentacles wrapped around parts of society they seek to control.
“You might argue that outsized facial features and tentacles are common to other topics too, so it’s just a cartoon thing,” Rich said. “Except where something has a long and familiar anti-Semitic history, it takes on a different meaning when you apply it to Jews.” It takes a lot to shock me. And I am well aware of the Guardian's and especially Rowson's form. But I still find it genuinely shocking that not a single person looked at this and said, no, we can't run this. To me that's the real issue.
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