A French dictionary was recalled after a computer virus caused the publication to revert to an edition with anti-Semitic definitions. Earlier, MRAP, a French anti-racism association, charged that the 2005 edition of Le Petit Littre had reverted to an 1874 edition that contained racist and anti-Semitic definitions for entries such as “yellow,” “Negro” and “Jew.”
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