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Gannett fires journalist for running cartoon on war in Gaza
[NYPOST] The Palm Beach Post fired its editorial page editor after the Florida paper ran a cartoon on the war in Gaza that local Jewish groups slammed as antisemitic.Tony Doris, 67, who worked at the Gannett-owned broadsheet for more than 20 years, was let go last month following the backlash. The syndicated cartoon ran in January and showed two Israeli soldiers rescuing a hostage held captive by Hamas with the caption: ''Some Israeli Hostages Are Home After Over a Year of Merciless War.'' The soldiers tell the hostage ''watch your step'' as the three figures walk over a pile of bodies with the label ''over 40 thousand Palestinians killed.'' Doris, who is Jewish, claimed the illustration was simply anti-war. ''I fully support Israel's right to exist,'' Doris told Stet News, a nonprofit news group in Palm Beach that earlier reported his firing. ''I think you can feel that way and still be open to discussion of the issue of violence that has taken place there.'' Gannett declined to comment on Doris' ouster. ''The cartoon did not meet our standards,'' Lark-Marie Anton, a Palm Beach Post spokesperson, told The Post in a statement. ''We sincerely regret the error and have taken appropriate action to prevent this from happening again.'' Posted by: Fred 2025-03-05 |
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