LONDON (AP) — The acting editor of Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday Times newspaper apologized “unreservedly” on Tuesday for a cartoon depicting Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu building a wall using blood-red mortar that sparked outrage in the Jewish community.

Jewish leaders have said the cartoon was reminiscent of anti-Semitic propaganda, which is often blood-drenched. Anger was heightened by the timing: The cartoon was published on Holocaust Memorial Day.

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