Canada's National Post retracts report that Iranian Jews will be forced...

[tuvor]

...to wear yellow patches

For a few hours on Friday, many around the world were ready to believe a report in the media that Iran had decided that Jews living there would be forced to wear a yellow strip of material on their clothing to denote their religion.

Leaders of international Jewish organizations were quick to respond, and likened the decision to the Nuremberg Laws of Nazi Germany.

Yesterday, after it emerged that the report had been false, the affair of "the yellow patch that wasn't" left us with one lesson: The world is ready to believe anything when it comes to a country ruled by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The affair was sparked by a report Friday in Canada's National Post daily. According to the report, exiled Iranians had said that Jews in Iran (some 25,000 individuals) would be required to wear a yellow strip of material or yellow star on their clothing.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/717935.html

[maddezmom]

1. it's about damn time

thanks for the update. :hi:

[Ms. Clio]

2. Lying warmongers

At least this one time their inane and vicious propaganda was exposed and squashed.

[CanuckAmok]

3. Good ol' Nazional Post

Canada's own li'l Völkische Beobachter.

[Jigarotta]

4. I didn't read the whole link, but

was the retraction on page 43, in 5 point type?

We know that someone will be using this ridiculous story as if it were true, sometime in the future. That's how it works. Make the headline big, and the retraction teeny weeny small.

[Newsjock]

5. I see only a follow-up story, not a retraction

The story referred to in the Haaretz report appears on page 1 of Saturday's National Post (they don't publish on Sundays). It is only a "denial" story, most assuredly NOT a retraction, and it contains the same quote referenced in the Haaretz report, so it's likely the same story.

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=38b84a95-622e-4830-9a57-ed004fe805ec&k=31543

Iranian embassy denies dress code
Chris Wattie; with files from Allan Woods, National Post, with files from CanWest News Service
Published: Saturday, May 20, 2006

Several experts are casting doubt on reports that Iran had passed a law requiring the country's Jews and other religious minorities to wear coloured badges identifying them as non-Muslims.
The Iranian embassy in Otttawa also denied the Iranian government had passed such a law.

A news story and column by Iranian-born analyst Amir Taheri in yesterday's National Post reported that the Iranian parliament had passed a sweeping new law this week outlining proper dress for Iran's majority Muslims, including an order for Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians to wear special strips of cloth.

... Hormoz Ghahremani, a spokesman for the Iranian embassy in Ottawa, said in an e-mail to the Post yesterday, "We wish to categorically reject the news item. "These kinds of slanderous accusations are part of a smear campaign against Iran by vested interests, which needs to be denounced at every step."

http://www.canada.com/scripts/frontpage.aspx?name=National+Post&thumb=false