A cartoon in the leftist Haaretz newspaper has been widely condemned.
Minister of Diaspora Affairs Ofer Yankelevich (Blue and White) asked: "How can I demand of the European Union that they ban anti-Semitism in the media when we are guilty of depicting Jews in such a denigrating way?"
The cartoon pictures an ultra-orthodox Jew who has come from abroad leaving Ben Gurion Airport with a train of coronavirus figures trailing behind him.
Betzalel Smotrich (Yamina) reacted as follows: "The Nazi newspaper Der Sturmer could not have published a more anti-Semitic cartoon."