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As social media users fell upon Kevin Myers' recent column in horror, and wasted no time dubbing the journalist both 'misogynistic' and 'anti-Semitic', the Jewish council in Ireland have come to the defence of the former Sunday Times columnist.

In a statement, the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland acknowledged Myers' 'error of judgement', but insisted that the headlines which have circulating in the wake of his recent column have been wholly misleading.

"More than any other Irish journalist he has written columns about details of the Holocaust over the last three decades that would not otherwise have been known by a substantial Irish audience," the statement read.

"The knee-jerk responses from those outside Ireland appear to care little for facts and pass on (along with some media outlets) falsehoods about his previous writings without verification."

"This has been exacerbated by a thoroughly misleading headline being sent around the world that is wholly unrepresentative of the article to which it refers."

While acknowledging the press and public's reaction to the recent article, the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland expressed concern over the aspersions which have been cast over his previous articles.

"It is understandable that there is a strong response to, and rejection of, Kevin Myers’ article but it is wrong that misconceptions and misinformation be circulated about his previous writings," they opined.

"Kevin Myers inadvertently stumbled into an anti-Semitic trope. Yes, Kevin ought to have known that his bringing the religion of the two BBC presenters into his writings on Sunday would cause concern and upset and that it was both unnecessary and bound to be misunderstood."

As articles, columns and social media postings devote time to dissecting Myers' recent remarks, the Council are keen to debunk the idea that Myers is innately anti-Semitic.

"But the larger picture is that Kevin, who up until now was a respected columnist, has a particular curmudgeonly, cranky, idiosyncratic style."

"We, who have been reading Kevin’s work over many years and those who know him personally, know that while this was a real error of judgement on his part, also know that he is not an anti-Semite."

 

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As members of the public took to social media to condemn Kevin Myers for his attitude towards the gender pay gap, one of the women at the centre of Myers' controversial column struggled to comprehend how the piece made it to print in the first place.

British broadcaster and journalist, Vanessa Feltz, was referenced in the article, which has since been slammed for its racist and misogynistic undertones, and admitted that the remarks made in the Sunday Times article left her somewhat stunned.

"I note that two of the best-paid women presenters in the BBC – Claudia Winkleman and Vanessa Feltz, with whose, no doubt, sterling work I am tragically unacquainted – are Jewish. Good for them," wrote Myers in the controversial piece.

Speaking on her BBC Radio One Show this morning, Vanessa expressed her distaste over the piece, saying it was "so obviously racist it's surprisingly hurtful."

Considering her background in print journalism, the 55-year-old struggled to accept the apology proferred by the newspaper in the hours that followed the article's publication.

"I said to the editor to The Sunday Times when he phoned to apologise 'I'm a journalist and I don't understand how that could be considered suitable to publish."

 "The apologies are all very well but how did it end up in the paper in the first place?" she asked.

Despite being no stranger to criticism, both personal and professional, over the course of her 30-year career, Vanessa admitted that the reference which was made to both her and her religion in Myers' article deeply affected her.

"I would have thought after all these years I'd be immune or used to it, but that's not at all how I felt. I felt extremely upset. It's not a very nice feeling," she said.

Kevin Myers will no longer be writing for The Sunday Times.

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Normally tasked with creating the headlines, Irish journalist, Kevin Myers, found himself the subject of a number this weekend after the public took grave exception to a column he wrote on the gender pay gap.

The column, which was subsequently dubbed 'anti-Semitic' and 'misogynistic', led the editor of the Irish version of The Sunday Times, Frank Fitzgibbon, to issue a statement apologising for the piece.

"As the editor of the Ireland edition, I take full responsibility for this error of judgement," he said. "This newspaper abhors anti-Semitism and did not intend to cause offence to Jewish people."

It has since been announced that Kevin Myers will no longer be writing for The Sunday Times, and Twitter has wasted no time voicing their opinion on the argument put forth by the controversial columnist.

We'll let them take it from here.

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