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US college satire: Students kill Jews

Student editors of campus humor publication, president of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, apologize for fake article that said students at nearby institution killed all Jews on their campus

Student editors of a campus humor publication and the president of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, are apologizing for a fake article that said students at nearby Lewis & Clark College killed all the Jews on their campus.

 

The article, meant as a satire, appeared last week in The Pamphlette, a student-run newspaper at Reed College. It carried the headline "LC students kill Jewish people."

 

Anti-Semitism is a sensitive issue at Lewis & Clark, where swastika graffiti was found in the library bathroom a few weeks ago.

 

Reed President Colin Diver apologized to Lewis & Clark's interim president, Jane Atkinson, last week. An editor at The Pamphlette says its staff has repeatedly apologized for hurting or offending people with the article.

 


פרסום ראשון: 10.16.09, 10:56
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