Nine Entertainment’s metro mastheads The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald have been forced to amend an “appalling and ill-informed” cartoon that inaccurately depicted the Israeli flag and equated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to terrorist organisation Hamas.
The illustration, drawn by veteran cartoonist Alan Moir, was published in the two newspapers on Saturday under the heading “Between the idea and the reality lies the shadow”.
It showed the shadows of Mr Netanyahu and a representative from Hamas standing side-by-side in a joint shadow.
In the bottom left-hand corner of the illustration sits an Israeli flag with a five-pointed Star of David (instead of six), leading to some interpretations that Moir had imposed Satan’s five-pointed pentagram on the flag.
The Palestinian flag was accurately drawn in the illustration.
Read the article by Sophie Elsworth in The Australian.
Here is the cartoon after it has been ‘corrected’ in the online version thereof with the spelling of Netanyahu’s name corrected and the Star of David drawn properly.
