A Maine based credit union has apologized to the Jewish community for publishing an apparently anti-semitic advertisement which was published in the Wednesday’s edition of Portland Press Herald. The advertisement has shown a photograph of stereotypical bearded money-lender to depict banking, ‘fee bandit’. The ad has been designed to appear as a ‘wanted’ ad and the fee bandit has been shown in a style, which is associated with many orthodox Jews.
The advertisement soon crash-landed into controversy soon after it was published. People have raised eyebrows on the ground that the ad has portrayed some of the most negative images of Jewish people in history. The allegations were made that the ad has shown the community as a greedy person who gauges non-Jewish people and cannot be trusted.
However, the publisher and the newspaper in question have apologized for publishing this advertisement. The ad however reads, ‘Charming and polite, the fee bandit smiles as he takes your money in ways big and small – late fees, over-balance fees, just-because-he can fees’.
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