This is a special edition of Doorstep Postings, the periodic political commentary column written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN.

Leaving questions unanswered serves no one. And so let me address the question: why are we so upset about a cartoon depicting Benjamin Netanyahu as a bloodthirsty vampire with claws for fingers when so many Gazans have died?

This argument, which I read as an attempt to be charitable about La Presse's failure rather than to defend the indefensible, inadvertently reinforces Coyne's point.

Even absent malicious intent, that no one involved recognized the *glaring* parallel is as alarming as the 'toon. https://t.co/bYrxk14XPe pic.twitter.com/nKHdOtERML

It’s finally time we get to the bottom of this charge levelled at Jews in Canada since Oct. 7, since we now have Canadian newspapers going to the poisoned well of Jews-as-vampires tropes to make… some sort of point about the war in Gaza that hasn’t been made? Was it somehow new or necessary to remind people that the Israeli prime minister undeniably has blood on his hands?

This is some deep antisemitism for sure. For La Presse to print something so offensive in the middle of the rise of antisemitism is perverse. I may oppose Netanyahu’s tactics but antisemitism in the West (which is Europe’s original sin) must be called out and stamped out https://t.co/Q2reOd7d0m........

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