(Michael Brochstein/Sipa via AP Images)The editors of the University of California at Berkeley’s student newspaper apologized Wednesday after publishing an editorial cartoon that depicted lawyer Alan Dershowitz, with blood on his hands, stomping on a Palestinian. But behind the cardboard cutout, there is a grim scene: Dershowitz, seemingly stomping his foot on a person holding a Palestinian flag. UC Berkeley chancellor condemns ‘anti-Semitic’ cartoon in student paper https://t.co/NzxHlGUxo2 pic.twitter.com/qU0h6vE78n — The Times of Israel (@TimesofIsrael) October 25, 2017On Wednesday, Dershowitz himself responded to the cartoon with a letter to the editor. Echoing Christ, he wrote that the cartoon resembled anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda that appeared in the weekly German publication Der Stürmer in the 1930s. “There is one word for this double standard.” Dershowitz wrote.

Source: Washington Post October 27, 2017 09:18 UTC