US EditionFrench Publisher Recalls Dictionary over 'Jewish Settler' Reference
Hachette recalled about 2,000 copies of textbooks and a dictionary after errors described Hamas attack victims as 'Jewish settlers,' prompting official condemnation and promised corrections.
- Hachette Livre recalled three high-school textbooks on Wednesday after they described Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks victims as `Jewish settlers`, sparking public outrage.
- In revision material for the baccalaureate, publishers included a passage framing the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks as causing more than 1,200 deaths of people described as `Jewish settlers`.
- Hachette removed recalled copies from booksellers and distribution partners, apologised, and said corrected editions will be sold only after fixes while unsold copies will be destroyed.
- Arnaud Lagardere, Hachette's chairman, apologized, while President Emmanuel Macron condemned the falsification as `intolerable`, and the French Embassy in Israel expressed deep outrage.
- The company launched an internal investigation by Hachette Livre and pledged a thorough review of textbooks, educational materials and dictionaries after the Larousse dictionary for 11- to 15-year-old students contained the same phrase as in three revision books.
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The publishing group reported on Friday having again spotted the mention "Jewish colonies", after a first alert of the Licra on Tuesday regarding other books.
Three extracurricular review books using the same formulation had already been recalled on Tuesday, 13 January, after a report of the Licra.
Hachette recalled a dictionary describing the victims of the attack of 7 October 2023 as "Jewish colonies". Three revision manuals have already been pinned for similar comments. The publishing group will review all its school and extracurricular works, he announced on Friday, 16 January. - Attack of 7 October: after the controversy, Hachette also recalls a dictionary and examines all his school works (Topics of society).
The Hachette group takes new steps after the discovery of a controversial formulation in a Larousse dictionary After three revision manuals, the Hachette publishing group recalled
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NotreTemps.comOn Wednesday, the Hachette group, French edition number 1, owned by Vincent Bolloré, had already recalled three extracurricular textbooks describing the victims as "Jewish colonies", causing a wave of indignation.
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The publishing group announced on Friday a dictionary in which a passage describes the victims of the 7 October 2023 attack in Israel as "Jewish settlers".
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