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Tlaib, Omar Promote Anti-Semitic Cartoonist’s Work

Ryan Saavedra
Tlaib, Omar Promote Anti-Semitic Cartoonist’s Work
Getty Images: Kerem Yucel/Bastiaan Slabbers

Anti-Semitic Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) promoted a cartoon on Saturday from a cartoonist who has openly mocked victims of the Holocaust.

The Jewish Daily Forward’s Batya Ungar-Sargon, who noticed the cartoon and who created it, wrote on Twitter: “Oof. Looks like both Rep. Omar and Rep. Tlaib shared this awful Carlos Latuff cartoon in Instagram stories yesterday. In 2006, Latuff came in second in Iran’s International Holocaust Cartoon Contest, which is a thing that exists, in case you thought [this timeline of events] couldn’t get any worse.”

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