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2019-12-08 Britain
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UK daily revises op-ed that said settlements are ‘the trouble with Jews today’
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[IsraelTimes] The Independent changes phrasing in opinion piece by philosopher Slavoj Zizek after allegations he used anti-Semitic language.
The Independent daily in the UK revised an op-ed that called West Bank settlements "the trouble with Jews today."
The change was made Thursday to an op-ed by the influential philosopher Slavoj Zizek published two days earlier titled "There is no conflict between the struggle against anti-Semitism and the struggle against Israeli occupation."
It contained an apparent defense of Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britannia’s Labour Party, from allegations of anti-Semitism.
The original language said that "the trouble with Jews today is that they are now trying to get roots in a place which was for thousands of years inhabited by other people."
After amending the article, the paper wrote at the top of the piece: "We acknowledge that an earlier version of this piece did not meet our own editorial standards."
Following an outcry and allegations that the language used was anti-Semitic, The Independent replaced the phrase "the trouble with Jews today" with "the trouble with the settlement project today."
In the op-ed, Zizek, whom the German Der Spiegel newspaper in 2015 described as "one of Europe
 ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
’s boldest intellectuals and also a self-avowed leftist," also condemned British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis’s warning last month about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party ahead of the December 12 election as "ethically disgusting."
Zizek also wrote: "I, of course, indisputably reject anti-Semitism in all its forms."
| “I don’t hate the Jooooos, I just see them as they really are,” he added. |
The Independent was established in 1986 and its digital editions are accessed more than 20 million times a month, according to the Newsworks website.
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