Boston Globe cartoon of Sheldon Adelson uses anti-Semitic images, Jewish leaders say

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Murder on the tax-cut express

By Ward Sutton November 30, 2017

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Boston Globe cartoon of Sheldon Adelson uses anti-Semitic images, Jewish leaders say

December 4, 2017

(JTA) — Two Jewish leaders denounced a Boston Globe editorial cartoon that they said uses a caricature of Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson with anti-Semitic tropes.

The cartoon (https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/11/30/murder-tax-cut-express/mtFJXnmoA52q1Dt3ceGy7H/story.html) that appeared Friday was titled “Murder on the tax-cut express” and shows Adelson aboard a train conducted by President Donald Trump labeled as riding in the section for “priority passengers.” Adelson is shown in a dining car reading a newspaper headlined “Estate Tax Repealed,” and a waiter is serving him a large sack labeled “$14.6

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Most likely unrelated events , these attacks on Adelson surfaced in the backdrop of reports of Adelson backing campaign to oust McMaster from Trump team.



White House Denies That McMaster Called Trump 'Idiot' in Conversation With Israeli CEO

Oracle CEO Safra Catz was part of Trump's transition team. Now a report says she told people one of Trump's closest advisers mocked the president in her presence

Amir Tibon (Washington)
Nov 20, 2017 8:23 PM

U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and H.R. McMaster, national security advisor, walk toward Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, June 16, 2017. Trump Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg WASHINGTON - White House National Security Adviser General H.R. McMaster reportedly described U.S. President Donald Trump as an "idiot" and a "dope" in a private conversation with the CEO of one of the largest software companies in the world. McMaster denies making the comments to Safra Catz (https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-1.759841), the Israeli-born CEO of Oracle, who has also issued a denial after the allegations were reported on Monday by Buzzfeed News.


The White House issued a strong denial of these claims, stating that "actual participants in the dinner deny that General McMaster made any of the comments attributed to him by anonymous sources. Those false comments represent the diametric opposite of General McMaster's actual views. This story is just more fake news." Oracle also issued a denial to the story.

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The sources who claimed to have heard about the conversation from Catz, said she considered McMaster's comments "jaw-dropping" and "inappropriate." Besides allegedly calling the president and "idiot," the sources claimed Catz also recalled McMaster comparing Trump's intelligence to that of a kindergartener.

It should be noted that in August, gambling tycoon Sheldon Adelson, one of the largest donors to Trump and the Republican Party, and a strong supporter of Israel's right-wing, also mentioned a conversation he had with Catz about her meeting with McMaster.
Adelson wrote an email on that subject to Mort Klein, the president of the Zionist Organization of America, one of the most right-wing groups in the U.S. Jewish community. In that email, Adelson told Klein that he supports a campaign launched by ZOA calling for McMaster's resignation (https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/1.807956), due to his positions regarding Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, the Iran nuclear deal and other Middle East policy issues.
Adelson explained that he was at first skeptical about ZOA's campaign against McMaster, but had changed his mind after speaking to Safra Catz. The conversation with Catz, Adelson wrote, "enlightened me quite a bit." He added that following his conversation with Catz, "I now support your effort" to get McMaster out of the White House.
The ZOA campaign against McMaster took place at the same time that far-right websites and Twitter accounts in the U.S. spread stories alleging that McMaster had expressed anti-Israeli opinions (https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-1.812462) and yelled at Israeli officials.

The allegations against McMaster began appearing a short time after he fired a number of people from the National Security Council who were appointed by his predecessor, Michael Flynn, and who were considered close to Trump's extremist political adviser, Steve Bannon. Over the weekend it was revealed Israel's ambassador to the U.S., Ron Dermer, hosted Bannon for dinner over the summer (https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/1.823471). Dermer called Bannon "a great friend of Israel."
One of those fired by McMaster was Ezra Cohen, a former intelligence officer who was appointed by Flynn to a senior position in the NSC. McMaster tried to get rid of Cohen, whom he considered not qualified for his position, for a number of months, but was reportedly blocked by Bannon. He finally managed to fire Cohen only after John Kelly became Trump's chief of staff in the summer. In September, the website "Just Security" reported that Cohen landed a job at Oracle after being dismissed from the White House by McMaster.

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