(Jewish Group) Donald Trump has withdrawn cartoonist Ben Garrison's invitation to the White House

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Donald Trump has withdrawn cartoonist Ben Garrison's invitation to the White House, but he can't conceal the rise of antisemitism

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There is now little point denying what many of us have suspected for some time: antisemitism is not a minor issue in Western society, the preserve of a fringe who do not matter, but a mainstream attitude. For all our obsession over the Second World War, and our constant invocation of the Nazis, the heroism of liberating the death camps and the sacrifice made by our nations, rather than address the root causes of antisemitism, we merely swept the thing under the carpet. That failure has now returned to haunt us.

As the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported this week, Donald Trump's White House invited a cartoonist, Ben Garrison, to a social media summit. The reason this is a controversial invitation is that Garrison has form, having penned images depicting the financier George Soros and members of the Rothchild family as sinister puppeteers.

The invitation has since been withdrawn, following a backlash. But it is the latest in a series of moments in US politics when prejudice against Jews has risen to the fore.

The New York Times recently did away with political cartoons entirely after publishing an image of a blind Trump in a kippah being led by Benjamin Netanyahu, portrayed as a dachshund with a Star of David collar tag. There were the infamous scenes in Charlottesville, where white nationalists paraded chanting "Jews will not replace us", while Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar has infuriated many in her own party for her unapologetic statements over Israel.

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One only has to look at the comments to see the rank anti-Semitism that goes unchallenged and is even accepted in "polite" society.