Editing Daily Mail (section)

===Ralph Miliband article===
In September 2013, the ''Mail'' was criticised for an article on [[Ralph Miliband]] (late father of then [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]-leader [[Ed Miliband]] and prominent Marxist sociologist), titled "The Man Who Hated Britain".<ref name="'A man who hated Britain': Ed Miliband accuses Daily Mail of 'appalling lie' about his father Ralph"/><ref name=BBC/> Ed Miliband said that the article was "ludicrously untrue", that he was "appalled" and "not willing to see my father's good name be undermined in this way". Ralph Miliband had arrived in the UK from Belgium as a Jewish refugee from the Holocaust. The ''[[The Jewish Chronicle|Jewish Chronicle]]'' described the article as "a revival of the 'Jews can't be trusted because of their divided loyalties' genre of antisemitism."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Grant|first1=Linda|title=Mrs Cohen, the Daily Mail is talking about you, too|url=http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/analysis/111996/mrs-cohen-daily-mail-talking-about-you-too|work=[[The Jewish Chronicle]]|access-date=31 July 2015|archive-date=19 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150719181506/http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/analysis/111996/mrs-cohen-daily-mail-talking-about-you-too|url-status=live}}</ref> Conservative MP [[Zac Goldsmith]] linked the article to the Nazi sympathies of the 1st Viscount Rothermere, whose family remain the paper's owners.<ref name=BBC>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24343074 |access-date=26 February 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150920202145/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24343074 |archive-date=20 September 2015 |newspaper=BBC News |title= Ed Miliband accuses Daily Mail over 'lie' about father|date=October 2013 }}</ref><ref name="'A man who hated Britain': Ed Miliband accuses Daily Mail of 'appalling lie' about his father Ralph">{{cite news|last1=Wright|first1=Oliver|title='A man who hated Britain': Ed Miliband accuses Daily Mail of 'appalling lie' about his father Ralph|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/a-man-who-hated-britain-ed-miliband-accuses-daily-mail-of-appalling-lie-about-his-father-ralph-8852106.html|work=The Independent|access-date=31 July 2015|archive-date=10 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610235635/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/a-man-who-hated-britain-ed-miliband-accuses-daily-mail-of-appalling-lie-about-his-father-ralph-8852106.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24361040 | work=BBC News | title=Labour demands Ralph Miliband apology from Mail | date=2 October 2013 | access-date=20 June 2018 | archive-date=19 October 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181019015126/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24361040 | url-status=live }}</ref>

The paper defended the article's general content in an editorial, but described its use of a picture of Ralph Miliband's grave as an "error of judgement".<ref>{{cite web|title=Mail admits Miliband father's grave photo was 'error' but says Labour leader's attack on paper is 'disingenuous'|url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/mail-admits-miliband-fathers-grave-photo-was-error-says-labour-leaders-attack-paper-disingenuous|website=Press Gazette|date=2 October 2013 |access-date=31 July 2015|archive-date=24 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924105901/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/mail-admits-miliband-fathers-grave-photo-was-error-says-labour-leaders-attack-paper-disingenuous|url-status=live}}</ref> In the editorial, the paper further remarked that "We do not maintain, like the jealous God of Deuteronomy, that the iniquity of the fathers should be visited on the sons. But when a son with prime ministerial ambitions swallows his father's teachings, as the younger Miliband appears to have done, the case is different."<ref>{{cite web|title=An evil legacy and why we won't apologise (Editorial)|url=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2439714/Ed-Miliband-evil-legacy-wont-apologise.html|website=Daily Mail|date=October 2013|access-date=3 December 2018|archive-date=6 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190106171724/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2439714/Ed-Miliband-evil-legacy-wont-apologise.html|url-status=live}}</ref> A spokesman for the paper also described claims that the article continued its history of [[anti-Semitism]] as "absolutely spurious."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Rocker|first1=Simon|title=Daily Mail accused of antisemitic attack over Miliband story|url=http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/111993/daily-mail-accused-antisemitic-attack-over-miliband-story|newspaper=Jewish Chronicle|access-date=31 July 2015|archive-date=19 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150719174606/http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/111993/daily-mail-accused-antisemitic-attack-over-miliband-story|url-status=live}}</ref> However, the reference to "the jealous God of Deuteronomy" was criticised by [[Jonathan Freedland]], who said that "In the context of a piece about a foreign-born Jew, [the remark] felt like a subtle, if not subterranean hint to the reader, a reminder of the ineradicable alienness of this biblically vengeful people"<ref>{{cite news|last1=Freedland|first1=Jonathan|title=Was the Daily Mail piece antisemitic?|url=http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/comment/111995/was-daily-mail-piece-antisemitic|access-date=31 July 2015|work=[[The Jewish Chronicle]]|date=3 October 2003|archive-date=30 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150930234326/http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/comment/111995/was-daily-mail-piece-antisemitic|url-status=live}}</ref> and that "those ready to acquit the Mail because there was no bald, outright statement of antisemitism were probably using the wrong measure."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Freedland|first1=Jonathan|title=Antisemitism doesn't always come doing a Hitler salute|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/04/antisemitism-does-not-always-come-hitler-salute|access-date=31 July 2015|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=4 October 2013|archive-date=31 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150531223602/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/04/antisemitism-does-not-always-come-hitler-salute|url-status=live}}</ref>