The editors of a New Zealand student newspaper have been fired after they published a phony advertisement that ridiculed Jewish victims of Nazis.
The ad, which appeared last week in a Canterbury University newspaper Canta, included the text: “The importance of Being Furnaced. It’s a wacky Jewish comedy. It’s a gas. A cast of six million.”
Condemnation from prominent Jews and non-Jews immediately followed and led to the student body’s dismissal of the editors responsible.
“Everybody in New Zealand seemed to immediately understand the offensiveness of the student editor’s action – except the editors themselves,” David Zwartz, president of the New Zealand Jewish Council, said in an interview.
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