The New York Times published an anti-Semitic cartoon depicting a blind Donald Trump being led by a canine Benjamin Netanyahu in its international edition earlier this year. Following near-universal condemnation, Trump seemed more concerned for himself than for the Jews. His tweet on the matter was typically puerile:
"The New York Times has apologized for the terrible Anti-Semitic Cartoon, but they haven't apologized to me for this or all of the Fake and Corrupt news they print on a daily basis."
Perhaps it should come as no surprise that mere months after this incident, the president, or some deputy, has invited the notoriously anti-Semitic alt-right cartoonist Ben Garrison to a White House social media summit scheduled for July 11. This confirms that Trump's issue with the Times's cartoon was the way it characterized him, not the way it characterized Jewish people. Surprising or not, the Garrison invitation is a slap in the face to American Jews and Jews all over the world.
