Comics author will alter chapter
From Times Wire Reports
The author of a best-selling comic book series intended to teach children about other countries said he would change a chapter on Jews that has been called anti-Semitic and similar to Nazi propaganda.
Lee Won-bok maintained, however, that his depiction of Jewish control of American media and politics was based on fact and “commonly believed.”
Images from the book “echo classic Nazi canards,” Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center said this month.
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