William - // I cannot see anything anti-semitic, but if anyone was offended the Guardian was right to apologise. //
You say 'If anyone was offended ...' and I believe that in our increasingly confrontational and hyper-sensitive times, that approach is a slippery slope.
You can find someone to be offended about literally anything if you search hard enough and wait long enough, and both those conditions are minimised in our cyber-connected world.
There has to be some lines drawn somewhere, or else complete chaos will ensue.
By definition, cartoons, especially political cartoons, are entirely designed to provoke reaction right across the scale from amusement to outrage.
If enough people are seriously upset, then there are grounds for a re-think and potentially an apology.
But to simply operate a system where one person being 'offended' sets an apology mechanism in place, is completely unworkable.
As I said, lines have to be drawn, and the sensible majority can be relied on to set a standard, and the hysterical minority, who make the most noise, must be gently ignored until they go away.