German paper apologizes for fake Charlie Hebdo anti-Semitic cover
Berliner Zeitung publishes cartoon showing rabbi making Holocaust joke
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BERLIN — A German newspaper apologized for mistakenly publishing a fake Charlie Hebdo cover that featured an anti-Semitic cartoon on its front page the day after the French publication was attacked last week.
The daily Berliner Zeitung featured four real Charlie Hebdo covers on its front page January 8, along with a fake one depicting what appears to be an Orthodox Jew making a quip about the Holocaust. The cover carried the name “Charlo Hebdo” — one of the clues it was a fake.
The Berliner Zeitung said Thursday it “failed to recognize that one of the cartoons was a fake” and offered its “profoundest personal apologies for this highly regrettable mistake.”
It said it had posted a correction in Friday’s paper acknowledging that it mistakenly printed an anti-Semitic cartoon.
Nach Anschlag auf #CharlieHebdo. @BLZonline veröffentlicht Fake-Karikatur (Shoah Hebdo), die Holocaust relativiert. pic.twitter.com/CFk9K0VpjD
— AJC Berlin (@AJCBerlin) January 15, 2015
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