| Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Newspaper Edits Female World Leaders Out of Charlie Hebdo March Sunday’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. [UPDATE: see below.] 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:
UPDATE — 6:19 p.m. ET: We have identified some of the missing women! The woman in the blue scarf is Anne Hidalgo, the Mayor of Paris, who rallied the city to respond to the egregious attacks, but is totally a woman and therefore not important enough to be in these images. The woman in the puffy coat cropped out of the picture is not Denmark PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt as initially reported, but Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. She’s an extremely important figure in European politics — her position places her in charge of the EU’s foreign policy — but she’s still a woman, so no, she doesn’t get to be in the photo. Merkel is still missing, please let us know if you find her. Source URL |
