The New York Times deleted a political cartoon over the weekend after acknowledging that it contained “anti-Semitic tropes,” an episode decried as the latest example of rising anti-Semitism on the left.

The cartoon depicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a dog wearing a Star of David collar leading a blind President Trump, who wore a yarmulke, an image that contained “anti-Semitic tropes,” said The New York Times in a Saturday editor’s note.

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“The image was offensive, and it was an error in judgment to publish it,” said the note. “It was provided by The New York Times News Service and Syndicate, which has since deleted it.”

Donald Trump Jr. condemned the cartoon, which ran in Thursday’s international edition of the Times, as “disgusting” and “flagrant anti-Semitism.” CNN’s Jake Tapper said it “just as easily could have appeared in neo-Nazi or ISIS propaganda.”

Seth Frantzman, op-ed editor of The Jerusalem Post, said he wasn’t sure the image shown on social media was real until he found a paper copy of the newspaper at a 24-hour supermarket.

“This is what The New York Times thinks of us Israelis,” he said in a Saturday op-ed. “Even if they subsequently said it was an error, they thought it was okay to print a cartoon showing the US president being blindly led by the ‘Jewish dog’?”

Portuguese political cartoonist Antonio Moreira Antunes of the [Lisbon] Expresso drew the cartoon.

According to the Jerusalem Post on Sunday, Mr. Moreira Antunes has a history of using anti-Semitic tropes. In 1983, he inverted the iconic Holocaust photo of a Warsaw Ghetto Jewish boy holding up his arms in fright to compare Israel to Nazi Germany.

The uproar played out on the same day a gunman opened fire at a synagogue in Poway, California, killing one woman and injuring three other worshippers, in an attack apparently fueled by the suspect’s anti-Semitic and white supremacist beliefs, according to a manifesto posted in part on Heavy.

While such views have long fueled the extreme right, critics worried the cartoon reveals the extent to which the left’s anti-Israel sentiment has paved the way for the spread of anti-Semitism within the mainstream progressive movement.