'Apparently nobody looked at it and thought there was anything wrong with it. It says a lot about the people running The Guardian. ![]() More than one person probably looked at that cartoon, looked at the grotesque tropes that are in it and thought 'this is OK to print'.'Īsked if Ms Viner should consider her position, Mr Percy said: 'Yes.' He added: 'If this had been a cartoon of anything else, any other form of racism, I have no doubt that people would be resigning.'įellow Tory MP Peter Bone said: 'It was sickening. I assume these things have to be signed off. Anybody should have looked at that Diane Abbott letter and thought 'we can't print this, this is clearly racist', and they should have looked at this cartoon and also thought 'this is clearly racist'. They clearly have a blind spot on anti-Semitism. 'They've obviously got a cultural problem. The cartoon, published on Saturday, depicted the ex-Goldman Sachs banker (pictured) carrying a box from the bank stuffed with a squid and what appeared to be gold coins What's irritating about it is that they're all pious at The Guardian about abuse of anybody on their side of politics, and yet they've got a history of pretty vile, racist abuse in cartoons. ![]() Tory MP Andrew Percy, who is Jewish and vice-chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on anti-Semitism, said: 'The cartoon was disgusting. Ms Abbott, who has since been suspended by the Labour Party, also likened the prejudice suffered by Jews to that faced by ginger-haired people. She said Jews, travellers and Irish people may face discrimination, but that is due to 'prejudice… not racism'. ![]() It came after The Observer, also owned by Guardian Media Group plc (GMG), published a letter by Labour MP Diane Abbott which suggested that only black people can face racism. The cartoon, published on Saturday, depicted the ex-Goldman Sachs banker carrying a box from the bank stuffed with a squid and what appeared to be gold coins. MPs last night told Katharine Viner (pictured) to consider her position after the Left-wing paper published an offensive cartoon of ex-BBC chairman Richard Sharp featuring Jewish stereotypes, before making what was dubbed a 'half-hearted' apology
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