Here's an article over the cartoon mentioned here that sparked outrage in April which led to this:
https://nypost.com/2019/04/28/new-york-times-condemned-for-a...
https://nypost.com/2019/04/28/new-york-times-condemned-for-a...
It looks like like the NYT succumbed to the mob whipped up by the Trump administration, it meerly doesn't want the criticism.
I felt similar when political cartoons were made picturing Obama as a monkey even if the surface was non-racist. I thought I remembered a “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” cartoon but could not find it. Even though the cartoon wasn’t technically racist, I didn’t like it because it could easily be cover for genuine racial bigotry.
I personally doubt that the reason that the cartoonist put a yarmulke on Trump is because he wore a yarmulke one time back in 2017.
LMGTFY:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-Judaism
Staying out of sight to stay alive, basically.
This seems like such an odd, easily disproved statement that I am surprised when so many repeat it.
I’m not a fan, but it seems more like his regular failure than some manipulation trait.
Clearly there's a range of personal beliefs on this topic, but in my eyes a cartoon saying that Israel has undue influence on the US is A-OK. Even if you don't agree with the cartoon's premise, there's a reasonable debate that can be had.
A cartoon saying that the Jews have an undue influence on the US is where things get yucky.
The inclusion of apolitical religious symbols instead of national or even Zionist ones is what leads me to think that the cartoon is referring to the latter scenario. I don't think doing things like including the Star of David or using a dog as a caricature are inherently anti-Semetic, it just displays a lack of awareness or sensitivity to how those images have been used in the past. But using them in conjunction with the yarmulke leads me to think the cartoon is trying to say that Trump has somehow been infected by the virality of Jewishness, not just by Israeli interests as some of the defenders of the cartoon are saying.
Wikipedia lists some common ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Crypto
It's like neo- (new) or proto- (earliest form of).
For an analogy: Drawing Trump as a banana eating ape would not raise eyes, while drawing Obama like this undoubtedly would.
[1] https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/285781/sov...
I'm going by the description here, rather than the actual imagery, but as described it doesn't seem to me to anti Semitic.
But don't just take my word for it. This has been a long-debated topic. take a look at both sides: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=antizionim+is+not+antisemitic&t=ff...
If you want to make a statement that the US blindly supports Israel, that is not in itself anti-Semitic. But why put Trump in a skullcap?
To me though, if you go with that interpretation, the cartoon isn't anti Jewish (/Israel), its anti Trump, and a skull cap isn't inherently insulting, unless it's insulting to Jews that Trump is Jewish?