JTA — A Florida editor says he was fired by his local paper, part of a national network, after he ran a cartoon that was critical of the death toll in the war in Gaza.

Tony Doris says he was fired as editorial page editor at the Palm Beach Post in February after the paper, owned by the company Gannett, got blowback about the cartoon from local Jewish leaders.

The cartoon, which ran in January, showed Israeli soldiers helping a freed hostage exit Gaza — by walking over a pile of bodies labeled “over 40 thousand Palestinians killed.”

Doris’ firing was first reported by Stet News, a nonprofit newsroom covering Palm Beach County. Doris told Stet that he saw the cartoon as antiwar.

But the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County bought a full-page ad in the Post decrying the cartoon as “a modern-day blood libel” and saying, “Hate speech turns into hate crimes. Journalism must inform, not incite.”

Michael Hoffman, the CEO of the........

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