Read this article, from The CST. Here’s the conclusion:
It was not the article’s author Rachel Shabi who came up with the heading and subheading about “false accusations of antisemitism”. It was Guardian CiF staff.
So, after contact from CST, this particular false accusation has been removed. It is very little and it is very late.
The damage is done: to Guardian readers’ perceptions of antisemitism and to many Jews’ perceptions of the Guardian (yet again).
In other ‘retraction of false claims by the Guardian’ news, we have this:
This article was amended on April 23 2012. In the item about the presence of blogs by Carlos Cortiglia, the BNP’s mayoral candidate, on the Jewish Chronicle website we stated that the blogs were still available on November 23. We went on to say that this “conflicts” with the editor of the JC, Stephen Pollard’s, account “that he became aware of Cortiglia’s blog and deleted all trace of it ‘last September’ “. To clarify: he told the Guardian’s reporter that “in September we were alerted to the fact that Cortiglia had set up a user blog and the moment we were told, we blocked him and changed [the] entire system”. Mr Pollard has asked us to point out that this was not meant to imply that all traces of the blogs had been deleted in September – in fact the measure he took at that time was to block Cortiglia’s access. He ordered the blogs to be deleted more recently.
Don’t worry.
There will be more false allegations against Jews and Jewish institutions in The Guardian tomorrow. And the next day. And the day after that.
The Guardian is The Daily Express for people who think they are better than the Daily Express.
