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French Canadian Newspaper Issues Apology for Antisemitic Caricature of Netanyahu
The antisemitic cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the French-Canadian news outlet La Presse. Photo: Screenshot
The French Canadian newspaper that published a crudely antisemitic caricature of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday has issued an apology and confirmed that the offending image has been removed from all its platforms.
In a note to readers published on Thursday, Stéphanie Grammond — the chief editorial writer of the Montreal-based La Presse — offered her “apologies to anyone who was offended” while insisting that the cartoon “was intended to be a criticism of Mr. Netanyahu’s policies. It targeted the Israeli government, not the Jewish people.”
The image, drawn by veteran cartoonist Serge Chapleau, showed Netanyahu as Nosferatu, the titular character of a 1922 German silent movie about a blood-sucking vampire.
Chapleau’s cartoon imposed Netanyahu’s features on that of a vampire wearing a grim, lifeless expression, with his hands replaced by long claws. An accompanying text displayed the word “Nosfenyahou” — a contraction of “Nosferatu” and the Francophone spelling of Netanyahu’s last name — dripping with blood. Another text beneath declared “On the way to Rafah,” the city in Gaza where Israeli troops have been battling Hamas terrorists.
Grammond remarked that the depiction of Netanyahu as Noseferatu was “unfortunate” as the character “was used in Nazi propaganda during the Second World War, as readers pointed out to us after publication.”
While Chapleau has made no comment since the scandal erupted on Wednesday, Grammond assured readers that he “never intended to convey anti-Semitic remarks or harmful stereotypes.”
“La Presse has already loudly denounced the deplorable rise in antisemitism since the start of the war [in Gaza], in Quebec as elsewhere in the world,” she continued. “Today we reiterate the importance of combating hatred against the Jewish people.”
The cartoon was loudly condemned by Canadian politicians including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “It is unacceptable to bring back antisemitic tropes and allusions like that. It is distasteful and exactly the wrong thing to do, particularly in these times,” Trudeau said. “It’s a good thing that it was pulled, it’s a good thing that they’ve apologized. But it should never have happened in the first place.”
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250 Hezbollah Terrorists Including 21 Commanders Eliminated in Ground Op
DF operating in southern Lebanon. Photo: IDF Spokesperson
i24 News – The Israeli military eliminated 250 Hezbollah terrorists including 21 commanders in four days of ground combat, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement on Friday.
IDF soldiers operating in southern Lebanon have uncovered vast caches of weapons and munitions in civilian residences, showing how central embedding within civilian population is to Hezbollah’s mode of warfare.
Meanwhile, heavy strikes targeting the Hezbollah stronghold of Dahieh in southern Beirut were ongoing, Lebanese media reported.
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Airstrikes Launched on Several Parts of Yemen, Houthi Al Masirah TV says
Illustrative. Hodeidah, Yemen, July 20, 2024. Houthi Military Media/Handout via REUTERS
Airstrikes were launched on Friday at several parts of Yemen including its capital Sanaa and Hodeidah airport, Al Masirah TV, the main television news outlet run by the Houthi movement controlling much of Yemen, and residents said.
Strikes also targeted the south of Dhamar city and the southeast of al-Bayda province, the channel added.
Residents said that the attack on al-Bayda province targeted several Houthi military outposts.
Al Masirah TV reported that the strikes had been carried out by the United States and British forces, but a British government source said Britain was not involved.
Iran-aligned Houthi militants have launched attacks on international shipping near Yemen since last November in solidarity with Palestinians in Israel‘s war with Hamas.
The attacks have drawn US and British retaliatory strikes and disrupted global trade as ship owners reroute vessels away from the Red Sea and Suez Canal to sail the longer route around the southern tip of Africa.
Following the airstrikes, a Houthi spokesman called the attack “a desperate attempt,” adding that “Yemen will not be deterred by these attacks and will continue its steadfastness in confronting the enemies.”
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IDF Kills Hamas Commander in Tulkarem
Illustrative. Israeli troops during counterterrorism activity in Tulkarem, northwestern Samaria, September 2024. Photo: IDF.
JNS.org – An Israeli Air Force fighter jet conducted a rare strike in Tulkarem in the West Bank on Thursday night, targeting top Hamas terrorist Zahi Yaser Abd al-Razeq Oufi.
The Palestinian Authority reported at least 18 fatalities in the strike, with a local security source telling Agence France-Presse it was the deadliest in Judea and Samaria since the Second Intifada.
Ayyth Radwan, the head of Islamic Jihad’s Tulkarem branch, was also reportedly killed.
Oufi was planning a terrorist attack “in the immediate time frame,” according to the Israel Defense Forces, and directed the thwarted car bombing last month near Ateret in the Binyamin region of Samaria.
There were no casualties in the incident, which Israel Ganz, the head of the Binyamin Regional Council, called a “great miracle.”
The IDF said Oufi was involved in smuggling weapons to terrorists who perpetrated several recent attacks against Israelis, including some that resulted in injuries to civilians.
He also “worked to establish terrorist networks on behalf of Hamas and assisted terror operatives in the area to carry out significant shooting and explosive attacks,” added the military.
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