Washington Post loses backbone, deletes accurate cartoon of a Hamas terrorist

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The Washington Post lost its backbone when it published, and then deleted, a cartoon of  a Hamas terrorist. The cartoon was created by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Ramirez, satirizing Hamas’s claims that Israel targets innocent Gazan children and civilians. Despite the fact that the claim has been proven to be true as details emerge about how Hamas uses schools and hospitals as its home base to conduct terror planning and activity, some decried racism at the cartoon.

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The cartoon depicts the Hamas terrorist group’s spokesman, Ghazi Hamadi, using kids as human shields, and the writing in the voice bubble says “How Dare Israel attack civilians.”

The Washington Post ran the cartoon last Tuesday, but by Wednesday, after what executive editor Sally Buzbee called “deep concern” from staffers and letters written by subscribers, the Post pulled the cartoon, which many readers and employees reportedly saw as racist.

In an interview with National Review, Ramirez said he will not bow to the spurious charges of racism he has faced since the cartoon ran. “This was designed with specificity. It’s focused on one individual and represents one organization and their claims of victimhood,” Ramirez told NR. He said those who considered the cartoon racist are engaged in conflation and “just can’t look beyond Hamas and distinguish the difference between a known terrorist group and Palestinians.”

“It is sad that people who oppose a political viewpoint have to invent diversions to quell the debate; we should be better than that,” he told NR. “America should be better than that. We need some adults in the room. If it scares you — a cartoon — maybe you need to grow up” Ramirez concluded.

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