Palm Beach Post shot her editorial editor after Paper Florida ran a cartoon in the Gaza war that local Jewish groups clashed as anti -Semitic.
Tony Doris, 67, who worked on the extension of Gannett for more than 20 years, was released last month after the reaction.
Trade union cartoons ran in January and showed two Israeli soldiers who escaped an hostage held by Hamas with the title: “Some Israeli hostages are at home after more than a year of ruthless war.”
The soldiers say the pledge “Look at your step” as the three figures walk over a pile of troops with the label “over 40,000 Palestinians killed”.
Doris, who is Jewish, claimed that the illustration was merely against war.
“I fully support Israel’s right to exist,” Doris Stet News, a group of nonprofits in Palm Beach, told Doris Stet Beach who earlier reported his firing.
“I think you can feel that way and still be open to discussing the issue of violence that happened there.”
Gannett refused to comment on the fall of Doris.
“The cartoons did not meet our standards,” Lark-Marie Anton, a spokesman for Palm Beach Post, told the post in a statement. “We sincerely regret the mistake and have taken appropriate actions to prevent it from happening again.”
The cartoons immediately aroused controversy in the lower community, making the Jewish Federation of the Palm Beach district to buy a full -page advertisement in the next week’s Palm Beach post, denouncing the decision.
In the advertisement, the nonprofit argued that trivialized shrimp suffering and “spread dangerous anti -Semitic tropes, including false and inflammatory blood charges”.
Old editors in Gannett took action after the advertisement took place – suspending Doris and meeting with the federation leaders, including President and Chief Executive Michael Hoffman.
During the meeting, Gannett’s editors apologized for running the cartoon and discussed ways to promote healthy dialogue on important issues for the area’s big Jewish community, Hoffman told the New York Times.
A week later, Doris said a senior editor dismissed him for violating the company’s policy, although the editor did not specify which policy he violated.
Doris said he had not been paid any breaks.
“I think it speaks of a misunderstanding or failure to engage with the mission of an editorial site,” he told Times.
Jeff Danziger, the political cartoonist after the image that aroused anger, has written some anti -war drawings throughout his career.
He told The Times Caricature was not anti -Semitic, but “just a case of,” this war has gone long. “
“I’m a Vietnam veteran and I think I know what I’m talking about – at least from the point of view of war is bad,” said Danziger, who served as an intelligence officer in the army and has a Jewish father.
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