Board of Deputies President Jonathan Arkush has reacted to a column by Kevin Myers in the Irish edition of The Sunday Times highlighting Jewish presenters Claudia Winkleman and Vanessa Feltz and suggesting “Jews are not generally noted for their insistence on selling their talent for the lowest possible price”.

Jonathan said: "This is a disgraceful column which promotes classic antisemitic tropes about Jews and money. How this made it through the editing process is a matter which the Sunday Times needs to investigate urgently. We expect answers and an apology."

The Sunday Times has since apologised for the column and Myers has been dismissed as a columnist.

Read the Forward report here and the Haaretz story here.


Interfaith and Social Action Officer Anthony Silkoff (above, right) spoke at yesterday's ceremony for #RomaGenocide Memorial Day, remembering Roma and Sinti victims of the Nazis. He said: "The open hostility and discrimination faced by Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people in 2017 is obscene, and must be rooted out in Britain and across Europe." Anthony was accompanied by Deputy Lauren Keiles