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NEW YORK — Two months after his Milwaukee newspaper ran an editorial calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign, it is the editor of the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle who is on his way out the door.

The resignation of Andrew Muchin, a 14-year veteran of the weekly federation-owned newspaper in Milwaukee, is linked to the controversial editorial, according to recent accounts in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

However, Muchin and the federation leadership declined to comment.

The Oct. 17 editorial, coming after the bungled assassination plot in Amman, called Netanyahu's administration the "most incompetent" in Israel's history and said the prime minister should resign.

A week later, the federation published a front-page statement in the Jewish Chronicle saying that the editorial did not represent the opinion of the paper's editorial committee or the federation's directors.

The editorial drew indignant criticism as well as hearty applause from its readers, who seemed as agitated about the mission of a federation newspaper as the political position its editorial took.

Virtually all federation papers practice some form of self-censorship to avoid offending major donors or their causes.

"Federations are dependent on their contributors," said Rebecca Kaplan Boroson, editor of the independent Jewish Standard in northern New Jersey. "When you work for a federation in any capacity, you have all those people as your bosses, and you are vulnerable."