Bad enough that the New York Times published what one of the paper’s own columnists called a “despicable” cartoon containing so many anti-Jewish images that “the only thing missing was a dollar sign.”

Worse, it took more than 24 hours of controversy before the Times saw fit to apologize — after first offering a feeble “editor’s note” citing only “an error in judgment.”

And the very fine editorial the paper posted Tuesday night can’t change that.

The cartoon, reminiscent of Nazi propaganda, showed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, drawn as a big-nosed dog wearing a Star of David collar, leading a blind President Trump, wearing a yarmulke.

It ran in the Times’ international edition, chosen by a single editor from the global cartoon offerings of an outside agency (which the Times has now cut its ties with).

Yet you have to wonder (as did the Times’ Bret Stephens) why that unnamed editor failed to recognize such a blatant expression of classic anti-Semitism.

Plainly, part of the problem is that vitriolic criticism of Israel is now so common that many don’t even notice when it crosses into crude anti-Semitism.

The Times isn’t alone. The same attitude is why House Democrats recently refused to rebuke Rep. Ilhan Omar by name, or even to specifically condemn anti-Semitism.

That ancient hatred is making a terrifying comeback, as the synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh and Poway demonstrate.

Which is why what the Times did, and its unacceptable delay in owning up to it, were more than just an “error in judgment.”