The student newspaper at the University of Illinois apologized for an anti-Semitic cartoon. In the strip in the Daily Illini, a student says he wants to tell a “Jew joke” but decides not to because he doesn’t want “Isiah down at the bank to beat me with his nose,” the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
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