Green Party leader Zack Polanski has accused The Times of publishing "a pretty vile antisemitic caricature" of him, after the newspaper featured a cartoon of Polanski with a hooked nose kicking a police officer.
The Green Party said it has submitted a complaint to The Times editor Tony Gallagher over the caricature, which it said displays "tropes so clearly associated with antisemitic depictions of Jewish people".
It said in a statement that it was "astonishing" given the "rising climate of antisemitism in the UK" that a "national newspaper has chosen to publish a cartoon of the only Jewish political leader in the country using tropes so clearly associated with antisemitic depictions of Jewish people".
Speaking in an interview with the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday, Polanski said the newspaper has yet "to apologise or withdraw" the cartoon.
The cartoon shows Polanski with a hooked nose, kicking police officers who are arresting Essa Suleiman, a 45-year-old Somali-born British national accused of stabbing two Jewish men in Golders Green, a neighbourhood of northwest London with a large Jewish population.
