By Shawn Lim

The Sunday Times columnist Kevin Myers has been given the boot by the broadsheet after the British journalist wrote an article that was deemed anti-sematic and sexist.

In his column in the paper’s Irish edition that has since been taken down, Myers claimed that BBC paid television presenters like Claudia Winkleman and Vanessa Feltz earned more money because of their Jewish heritage.

Myers wrote: “I note 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.”

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Source: The Drum