The Australian Press Council has censured a Croatian weekly newspaper, Hrvatski Tjednik, for publishing an article that contains “wild and unsubstantiated” anti-Semitic statements. The Press Council, according to information made available here by the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, acted on a complaint filed against the weekly by the Anti-Defamation Commission of B’nai B’rith District 21 of Australia and New Zealand.
The article, which charged that Jewish organizations “run the world,” was a “classic case of conspiracy theory which has been used by anti-Semites for the past century,” according to the Press Council, adding that it was “typical of the kind of propaganda that has been used to stir up anti-Jewish prejudice and justify racial persecution.”
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