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First of all I am not, and never have been, antisemitic," Scarfe said.
"The Sunday Times has given me the freedom of speech over the last 46
years to criticise world leaders for what I see as their wrong-doings.
This drawing was a criticism of Netanyahu, and not of the Jewish people:
there was no slight whatsoever intended against them. I was, however,
stupidly completely unaware that it would be printed on Holocaust day,
and I apologise for the very unfortunate timing."
... "Steve Bell, cartoonist for the Guardian, defended Scarfe: "For once,
this wasn't a bad cartoon. The problem with the state of Israel and the
Zionist lobby is that they never acknowledge the crime of ethnic
cleansing on which the state was founded.""
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