Asking the media giant not to propagate antisemitic tropes, the Anti-defamation League asked Fox News to take down a cartoon that depicted George Soros as a puppet master on social media.
Angered by the insensitivity of the news portal, the ADL wrote in a Tweet earlier this week, “As we have told @FoxNews numerous times, casting a Jewish individual as a puppet master who manipulates national events for malign purposes conjures up longstanding antisemitic tropes about Jewish power and contributes to the normalization of antisemitism. This needs to be removed.”
Source: Haaretz
The illustration in question was created by A.F. Branco and depicted Soros, a Holocaust survivor, and a billionaire philanthropist who gives mainly to liberal causes, as manipulating a Democratic district attorney holding up a sign saying “defund the police” and a Democratic attorney general holding up a sign saying “no bail.” As it stands, Soros has been the target of antisemitic conspiracy-mongering in recent years.
Responding to the ADL’s complaint, Fox removed the Facebook and Instagram posts that included the cartoon later in the day.
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