Toronto, April 19, 2009...   HonestReporting Canada (HRC) denounced cartoons printed in the YU Free Press, York University's "alternative" campus newspaper this month as "grossly anti-Semitic" because of their portrayal of Israel using Nazi-like imagery, while urging York administrators to carry out a formal investigation and to remove this newspaper from the school's grounds.

Created by anti-Israel cartoonist Carlos Latuff, the odious cartoons were appended to a Q & A between Latuff and YUFP's Ali Mustafa who described having the "privilege of meeting" Latuff in person, while mentioning that his views were "very provocative." The first cartoon portrays menacing S.S. troopers summarily executing innocent Palestinians in open-air graves marked "Gaza," all while figures symbolizing the U.S., Saudi Arabia, and the world stand idly by. The second cartoon depicts an emaciated Palestinian dressed in a pinstriped uniform similar to those warn during the Holocaust, lying on the ground next to Israel's security barrier which eerily looks like the barbed wire fence of a concentration camp. The dangerous implication promoted by these cartoons is of an Israeli policy to perpetrate a Holocaust against the Palestinians...