**CORRECTION** SWC Statement on Anti-Semitic Cartoon Appearing in Swedish Newspapers

November 22, 2016

The SWC regrets the error in first reporting that the cartoon originated in “The Local”. This evil cartoon that was published by the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, created a wave of protests. The Swedish branch of the European network, The Local, republished the cartoon to illustrate the dangers of antisemitism. The cartoon encapsulates the hate that some people in Europe feel towards the United States and Israel. It besmirches an American election and the more than 90 million votes cast by U.S. citizens. The cartoon shows goose-stepping U.S. and Israeli generals, and a hooded KKK Klansman walking alongside religious Jews with the caption, “Finally”. “The evil that is anti-Semitism which screams out from this cartoon would evoke tears of joy from Nazi Propaganda Chief, Julius Streicher,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. For more information, please contact the Center's Public Relations Department, 310-553-9036, join the Center on Facebook, www.facebook.com/simonwiesenthalcenter, or follow @simonwiesenthal for news updates sent direct to your Twitter feed. The Simon Wiesenthal Center is one of the largest international Jewish human rights organizations with over 400,000 member families in the United States. It is an NGO at international agencies including the United Nations, UNESCO, the OSCE, the OAS, the Council of Europe and the Latin American Parliament (Parlatino).