PARIS: A
magazine for
French six-year-olds was being
pulled from shops Wednesday
after it said that
Israel was "not a
real country".
"Youpi, j´ai compris!" (I´ve Understood!) which sells around 60,000 copies each month aimed at five- to eight-year-olds, was withdrawn by publishers Bayard
after protests from Jewish groups.
The magazine´s January issue carries a map of the world with the following legend: "We call these 197 countries states, like France, Germany or Algeria. There are other ones but not everyone agrees they are
real countries (for example the State of
Israel and North Korea)." Bayard said there had been an error."We recognise our mistake, it was not well put, and obviously we do not want to contest the existence of the state of Israel," its managing director Pascal Ruffenach told AFP.
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