Guardian journalists should be "more vigilant" in ensuring that they avoid using antisemitic tropes or language, according to the paper's readers' editor.
Addressing "the increase in complaints of antisemitism" in his weekly column, Chris Elliott said the Guardian was seen as being "especially critical of the Israeli government" and that this had led to concerns it is "carrying material that either lapses into language resonant of antisemitism or is, by its nature, antisemitic".
He said that although website moderators were trained to spot "the kind of language long associated with antisemitic tropes", more care was needed to identify coded references such as the word Zionist "being used as a synonym for Jew".
Mr Elliott said that in his view, incidents of antisemitic content being published were inadvertent, but added: "We must be more vigilant to ensure our voice in the debate is not diminished because our reputation has been tarnished."
