The Jewish editor in Florida says he was released after running Cartoon over Gaza

An editor in Florida said that he was released by his local newspaper, part of a national network, after driving a cartoon that criticized the fatalities in Gaza.

Tony Doris said he was released in February as the editor of the editorial position in the Palm Beach Post after the newspaper, which belonged to the Gannett company, was obtained by the local Jewish leaders over the cartoon.

The cartoon, which ran in January, showed Israeli soldiers who helped a freed Geisel outcome -Gaza by walking over a bunch of corpses that were called “over 40 thousand Palestinians killed”.

Doris' Shooting was first reported by Stet News, a non -profit newsroom in Palm Beach County. Doris said Stet that he saw the cartoon as an anti -war.

But the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County bought a full -page advertisement in the post, in which he decodes the cartoon as a “modern blood defamation” and said: “Hass crimes become hate crimes. Journalism has to inform, not stimulate. “

Michael Hoffman, the CEO of the New York Times, told the New York Times that the cartoon of the artist Jeff Danziger was anti -Semitic in connection with the cover of the war in Gaza.

“Since October 7, the dramatic increase in anti -Semitism has been the result of how the conflict in Gaza and Israel was reported,” Hoffman told the newspaper. “We believe that there was no fair and balanced approach to how the war was reported.”

Doris said he was then released. He said he had announced that his work had violated non -specified company guidelines.

The incident shows that the tensions about the Israel Hamas war in American media and public life remain high-and that Jews who consider themselves as Israel, like Doris of the time he can be in the crosshairs.

Immediately after October 7, 2023 by Hamas, an attack on Israel, in which around 1,200 people were killed, around 250 hostages and triggered the war, Doris published a graphic on Facebook on the attention of the children who had been kidnapped.

He told Stet News that he was the only Jewish editor of the Palm Beach Post.

“They combine criticism of Israel with anti -Semitism,” he said of the critics of the cartoon. “I fully support Israel's right to exist. … I think you can feel like this and still open to the topic of violence that has taken place there. You must not close the conversation just because you don't feel comfortable with it. “