There have been expressions of outrage over the virulently anti-Israel cartoon featured on the Sunday Times depicting a big-nosed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu paving a wall with the blood and limbs of agonizing Palestinian Arabs.

The cartoon displayed a bold caption beneath the image entitled “Israeli elections- will cementing peace continue?” Drawn by Gerald Scarfe, the cartoon appeared in the national paper on Sunday.

“This cartoon would normally be offensive at any time of the year, but to publish it on International Holocaust Remembrance Day is sickening and expresses a deeply troubling mindset,” said European Jewish Congress President Dr. Moshe Kantor. “This insensitivity demands an immediate apology from both the cartoonist and the paper’s editors.”

“Amazingly, as this cartoon was published days after the only democracy in the Middle East, Israel, underwent fully democratic elections, as others in the Middle East were being butchered by the tens of thousands, the Sunday Times focuses its imagination solely on the Jewish State.  This contravenes many of the criteria laid out in EUMC’s Working Definition of Anti-Semitism and is part of a worrying trend to legitimize the growing assault on Israel by opinion-shapers.”

British anti-Semitism has made headlines throughout the week after Liberal Democrat MP David Ward had blatantly accused “the Jews” of inflicting violence on Palestinians on a daily basis,” and wondered how they could continue to do this after their “liberation from the death camps.”

In response to condemnation from his party and a huge backlash on social media, Ward claimed that he was trying to make a clear point to everyone that “they should learn the lessons of the Holocaust and prevent such an atrocity from occurring again” as posted on his website.

“I recognize of course the deep sensitivities of these issues at all times, and particularly on occasions of commemoration such as this weekend [Holocaust Memorial Day],” he said.

He added that his criticisms of Israel “remain as strong as ever.”

European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton paid a special tribute to Holocaust survivors on Sunday, in a statement released on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Ashton said that the survivors of the Holocaust “remind us of this tragedy that we must never forget.”