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Board of Deputies Rejects Boycott of The Guardian

The Board of Deputies of British Jews rejected a proposed boycott of The Guardian. According to the Jewish Chronicle, the motion urged “all who oppose antisemitism to refrain from buying the Guardian or advertising in…

Pesach Benson
January 16, 2012
12:00 am

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The Board of Deputies of British Jews rejected a proposed boycott of The Guardian. According to the Jewish Chronicle, the motion

urged “all who oppose antisemitism to refrain from buying the Guardian or advertising in it”.

I understand the frustration behind the idea. Al-Guardian won HonestReporting’s 2011 Dishonest Reporting Award for an entire year’s worth of sloppy and slanted news and commentary far beyond any other paper.

And I’m not telling anyone how spend their money.

But once you cancel the subscription or advertising account, you have removed yourself from the argument.

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Tags: Board of Deputies of British Jews, boycott, The Guardian

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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