Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Toronto Sun caricature cartoon mocked and showed Ukraine president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, stealing Joe Biden wallet from his back pocket.
The cartoon, by a U.S.-based artist, was published in Wednesday’s Toronto Sun, and depicts Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy who is Jewish, walking alongside U.S. President Joe Biden, with Zelenskyy appearing to pull a wallet out of Biden’s back pocket.
The drawing of Zelenskyy exaggerates his facial features in a manner commonly seen in antisemitic caricature.
The cartoon has also been criticized for amplifying Russian propaganda and encouraging the anti-Ukraine sentiment that’s now part of U.S. political discourse.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau slammed a newspaper Thursday for running a cartoon perceived as using antisemitic tropes as he raised concerns about the rising number of antisemitic incidents in Canada.
Trudeau said everyone has a role to play to ensure Canadians are there for each other, and treat people with understanding and compassion rather than playing to stereotypes.
“But I also need to make sure we are calling out incidents of antisemitism wherever they rear their heads. And on that, specifically, the Toronto Sun editorial cartoon — which promoted, which published the worst kind of antisemitic content — was absolutely unacceptable,” he said after a housing announcement in Toronto.