Campaign to boycott Jewish News over Israel coverage
Posters spotted on walls and stuck to the sides of Jewish News street stands in Golders Green and Temple Fortune headlined: “THE ANTI ISRAEL JEWISH NEWS”.
Posters have appeared in north-west London calling for a boycott of Jewish News over its recent coverage of Israel.
A4 sheets of paper have been spotted on walls and stuck to the sides of Jewish News street stands in Golders Green and Temple Fortune, headlined: “THE ANTI ISRAEL JEWISH NEWS”.
It reads: “Week after week, sinister front page headlines attacking the democratically elected government of Israel, giving credence to Israel’s enemies. Last week’s front page headline ‘Pogrom”, where ONE Palestinian was killed in a revenge attack for murdering 2 Jews, was an absolute DISGRACE and an affront to REAL POGROMS that Jews suffered such as the FARHUD in Iraq, where over 100 Jews were killed and thousands injured.
“The naivety of the Jewish news editor, in splashing the word ‘POGROM’ over its front pages is an insult… and will only cause an increase in antisemitism.”
It concludes: “Jewish communities all over London say: Enough is Enough. Take it – Bin it. Do not support, Do not advertise. Please consider only reading the Jewish Weekly & The JC.”
On 26 February, hundreds of Jewish settlers went on a revenge rampage in the West Bank town of Huwara, described as “a pogrom” by a senior IDF commander, after the murder of two Israeli brothers.
Jewish News editor Richard Ferrer said: “Jewish News reports Jewish news. Did we like reporting on what happened at Huwara? Of course not. Do we want to run endless reports and columns about crackpots being prime movers in the Knesset? Of course not.
“We would we rather focus entirely on all the good things Israel does. But is this kind of thing news? Of course. It always has been and always will be. An IDF commander calling the attack on Huwara a “pogrom” should be front page news in every Jewish newspaper. There is no sugar coating or rose tinting. There is just news. Book burners stick silly posters on newspaper distribution bins. We report news.”
This latest boycott campaign echoes a similar crusade against the newspaper in January 2021 after it exposed extensive and potentially deadly lockdown breaches in the Stamford Hill Jewish community.
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