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30 July 2017updated 31 Jul 2017 3:37pm

Sunday Times fires Kevin Myers over antisemitic trope in gender pay gap article

The newspaper has said Myers won't write for Irish edition again after column which claimed "Jews are not generally noted for their insistence on selling their talent for the lowest possible price".

By Media Mole

The Sunday Times has apologised for an “error of judgement” that led to the publication of a column which used anti-semitic tropes about Jews and argued women needed to “earn” equal pay. 

The article by Kevin Myers about the BBC’s gender pay gap came from the Irish edition of the Sunday Times, but was published on the main website used by the UK based edition and its daily counterpart. It has since been removed and the publisher of both editions, News UK, is expected to launch an investigation into how the article made it through the newspaper’s editorial procedures. 

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