{"id":18851,"date":"2010-05-04T15:17:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T13:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=18851"},"modified":"2014-01-05T19:36:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T17:36:44","slug":"leeds-student-paper-pulled-for-antisemitic-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/05\/04\/leeds-student-paper-pulled-for-antisemitic-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds student paper pulled for antisemitic interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leeds University\u2019s newspaper Leeds Student has been pulled from shelves by the Students\u2019 Union after it published an antisemitic <strong>comment by Palestinian Telegraph owner Sameh Habeeb<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18852\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Sameh-Habeeb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"256\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The interviewer asked Mr Habeeb: \u201cDo you believe mainstream media organizations have a hidden agenda?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He replied: \u201cThey are certainly pro-Israeli. I think you have to ask yourself who controls the media.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Facebook group protesting against the decision by Leeds Students\u2019 Union to censor the issue has over 700 members, many of whom allude to the fact that one of the Students\u2019 Union officers who took the decision to censor the newspaper, Jak Codd, is Jewish.<\/p>\n<p>One student wrote on the group: \u201cOk, so one of your student officers took offence at an article because he views an interview answer as saying the media is controlled by Jewish people. A Jewish student officer who then exerts control over the student newspaper by getting the paper removed and the article censored.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr Habeeb\u2019s website has recently posted a video of the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke talking about Israel\u2019s \u201cterrorism\u201d against America, and the allegations of organ theft against IDF troops in Haiti.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Its patrons are journalist Lauren Booth and Respect leader George Galloway. Liberal Democrat peer Jenny Tonge resigned as a patron after the website published David Duke\u2019s video.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.thejc.com\/news\/uk-news\/31295\/leeds-student-paper-pulled-antisemitic-interview\">The Jewish Chronicle Online<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leeds University\u2019s newspaper Leeds Student has been pulled from shelves by the Students\u2019 Union after it published an antisemitic comment by Palestinian Telegraph owner Sameh Habeeb. The interviewer asked Mr Habeeb: \u201cDo you believe mainstream media organizations have a hidden agenda?\u201d He replied: \u201cThey are certainly pro-Israeli. I think you have to ask yourself who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":18852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[1135,2894,2895],"class_list":["post-18851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","tag-leeds","tag-leeds-student-paper","tag-sameh-habeeb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}