{"id":12733,"date":"2014-02-26T09:39:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T15:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=12733"},"modified":"2014-02-26T09:39:44","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T15:39:44","slug":"caricature-of-mark-zuckerberg-in-german-paper-called-anti-semitic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/caricature-of-mark-zuckerberg-in-german-paper-called-anti-semitic\/","title":{"rendered":"Caricature of Mark Zuckerberg in German paper called anti-Semitic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (JTA) &#8212; A caricature of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in a German newspaper has drawn charges of anti-Semitism against the artist and newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>The Simon Wiesenthal Center protested the depiction of Zuckerberg by artist Burkhard Mohr in the Suddeutsche Zeitungas daily Feb. 21 featuring the 29-year-old Jewish entrepreneur as an octopus reaching with its tentacles to control social media &#8212; a comment on Facebook&#8217;s acquisition of WhatsApp announced last week.<\/p>\n<p>Mohr and Suddeutsche Zeitungas both apologized for the cartoon.<\/p>\n<p>The exaggerated features include the stereotypically Jewish long hooked nose and thick lips. A leader of Germany&#8217;s Jewish community, Dieter Graumann, said the cartoon was on the level of Sturmer, the infamous Third Reich magazine, according to Tablet magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Wiesenthal Center, told the Algemeiner newspaper that the cartoon was &#8220;an outrage&#8221; that proves the artist is anti-Semitic.<\/p>\n<p>Mohr told The Jerusalem Post that he was shocked by the interpretation of his drawing and replaced the caricature of Zuckerberg&#8217;s face with a gaping maw.<\/p>\n<p>In a message on Twitter, Suddeutsche Zeitungas wrote &#8220;We are sorry!\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Caricature%20of%20Mark%20Zuckerberg%20in%20German%20paper%20called%20anti-Semitic\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,25],"tags":[5073,1909,8790,8795,5033,8788,5072],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12734,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12733\/revisions\/12734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}