Britain’s press watchdog dismissed a complaint that a cartoon showing Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon eating a baby was anti-Semitic. The Press Complaints Commission accepted the assertion by the Independent newspaper that the cartoon was based on the Goya painting “Saturn Devouring One of His Children” and rejected the Israeli embassy position that the cartoon referred to a blood libel against Jews.
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