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Gyspy scare stories given Jewish makeover

April 27, 2011 13:40
One of the doctored news stories

ByJennifer Lipman, Jennifer Lipman

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A group campaigning for the rights of Britain's traveller communities has set up a website substituting the word gypsy in "blatantly racist" headlines with the word Jew.

The Dale Farm Solidarity group built Jewify to raise awareness of the "official institutions, mainstream politicians, or newspapers openly espousing…racism against Gypsies".

The site allows users to see what newspaper articles would look like if their subject was the Jewish people. A 2008 story in the Express about politician Tessa Jowell's reaction to a gypsy camp near her house was altered to read: "Anger at Jewish invasion near Jowell's retreat".

A Mirror story from earlier this headlined was given the new headline: "Jews lose driving licences for allegedly paying people to pass tests for them".