A U.S. college newspaper is apologizing for a cartoon that depicted a Jew being knocked into an oven in an arcade game. The editor of the Medium, a humor newspaper at New Jersey’s Rutgers University, said the newspaper had failed in trying to convey the racist attitudes that led to the Holocaust, the Home News Tribune of Central New Jersey reported.
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