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Tue Jan 13, 2015, 02:55 PM Jan 2015

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Newspaper Edits Female World Leaders Out of Charlie Hebdo Photo [View all]

Cross-posted in GD

Yesterday’s historic march across Paris included over 40 world leaders expressing solidarity for France after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, but if you read this Haredi newspaper, you’d believe that none of them were women.

The image that ran on the front page of the Israeli newspaper The Announcer edited two female world leaders out of the image, originally provided by wire service GPO: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini. A third woman in a blue scarf who we can’t identify was also photoshopped out.

The original photo is below:




And here’s the paper’s version of it, screencapped by Walla.com. Merkel and Mystery Woman are gone completely, while Mogherini was simply cropped out of the photo:



More details at http://www.mediaite.com/online/ultra-orthodox-jewish-newspaper-edits-female-world-leaders-out-of-charlie-hebdo-march/


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