A prominent British newspaper has apologized after publishing an article citing the anti-Semitic stereotype of the greedy Jew.
In a piece published in the Irish edition of the Sunday Times, columnist Kevin Myers wrote that "two of the best-paid women presenters in the BBC, Claudia Winkleman and Vanessa Feltz, with whose no doubt sterling work I am tragically unacquainted, are Jewish. Good for them. Jews are not generally noted for their insistence on selling their talent for the lowest possible price.” The article immediately went viral on social media, with journalists and other media professionals calling the publication of the article racist and disgusting. 
Board of Deputies President Jonathan Arkush called the column "disgraceful", according to the Jewish Chronicle, and said it promoted "classic anti-Semitic 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."
In a statement on Twitter on Sunday, Sunday Times Irish editor Frank Fitzgibbon wrote that he apologized “unreservedly for the offense caused by comments in [the] column… it contained views that have caused considerable distress and upset to a number of people. As the editor of the Ireland edition I take full responsibility for this error of judgement. This newspaper abhors anti-Semitism and did not intend to cause offense to Jewish people.”
Myers was subsequently sacked.
In a separate message to the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism, Sunday Times editor Martin Ivans described the Myers’ comments as “unacceptable” and stated that they "should not have been published.”
According to the Jerusalem Post, Myers had previously dabbled in racism with columns in The Independent and the Irish Independent titled "There was no Holocaust” and "Africa is giving nothing to anyone - apart from AIDS” respectively.
