The Chinese Embassy in Japan recently tweeted a satirical cartoon of death knocking on the door of the United States and said, “If the U.S. comes with ‘democracy,’ this is how it will turn out,” which came under fire from all sides and was subsequently deleted by the Chinese Embassy. According to Israeli media reports, the Chinese deleted the post because the cartoon was considered an “anti-Semitic cartoon,” which angered Israeli Ambassador to Japan Yaffa Ben-Ari, who called the Chinese embassy with Israeli Foreign Ministry officials to protest the post, and the Chinese embassy subsequently deleted the tweet within an hour.
According to the Jerusalem Post, the Chinese Embassy in Japan tweeted a “Who’s Next” cartoon of the Grim Reaper knocking on doors last Thursday, showing a Grim Reaper wearing an American flag coat and going door-to-door in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Egypt, leaving a long trail of blood behind him. The cartoon is considered anti-Semitic because it offends the Jewish community because of the Star of David, a symbol of Judaism, painted on the scythe held by the Grim Reaper.
According to the report, Israel’s ambassador to Japan, Ali, was upset when he saw the cartoon on Friday, saying that it “demonized” Israel and that he believed that China did not realize the connection between Israel and the cartoon; he and Gilad Cohen, deputy director general for the Asia-Pacific region at the Israeli Foreign Ministry, called the Chinese Embassy in Japan to protest. Within an hour of the call, the posting was removed, although the Chinese Embassy did not issue a tweet apologizing.
In May of last year, the Chinese Embassy in France also published a cartoon of the Grim Reaper knocking on the door, wearing a U.S. flag and standing outside a door marked “Hong Kong,” while several bloodstained doors in front of him read “Iraq” and “Syria. “, “Syria”, “Ukraine”, “Venezuela” and other countries. At the time, the cartoon was harshly condemned in France, and China later argued that the tweet had been “misappropriated.
This time, the Chinese embassy in Japan posted the cartoon, which not only angered Israel, but also displeased Japanese netizens, who left comments such as “China’s standard,” “It’s in bad taste,” and “I can’t imagine a public institution doing such a thing. “In addition, the U.S. Embassy in Japan also tweeted: “Thank you to the Japanese people for speaking out against that very uncomfortable tweet”.
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