The New York Times have announced they will be dropping Patrick Chappatte and Heng Kim Song‘s daily political cartoons from the international edition of the paper next month:Our statement in response to ending daily political cartoons in the international edition of The New York Times. The cartoon, created by Portuguese cartoonist António Moreira Antune, was acknowledged by the Times as containing anti-Semitic tropes, and had already led to the paper dropping all syndicated cartoons. Chappatte noted on his blog that The New York Times had been one of the best places in the world to express defiance: “Cartoons can jump over borders. Who will show the emperor Erdogan that he has no clothes, when Turkish cartoonists can’t do it ? Political cartoons were born with democracy.

Source: International New York Times June 11, 2019 12:22 UTC