Andrew Wilkie would be proud.
According to an article in Ha’aretz, the British Press Complaints Commission regards anti-semitic views as being legitimate:
The British Press Complaints Commission last week justified an Observer newspaper columnist who announced in his column that he does not intend to read pro-Israel letters if they are signed by people with Jewish names.
According to the complaints commission, the position taken by the columnist, Richard Ingrams, is legitimate.
The Complaints Commission gave the following convoluted justification for its position:
Newspapers…are allowed to publish one-sided views as long as they make a clear distinction between commentary, speculation and fact. The Ingrams article was clearly commentary, and no reader could have mistakenly thought that his view was the only one on the issue.
Using this logic, an article by a columnist calling Jews “evil” would also be legitimate, since no reader would regard this view as the only one.
