Overview
- The guest op-ed by Eitan Reshef, published Monday during the playoffs, went viral and was removed from The Oklahoman’s site hours later.
- In a brief editor’s note, the paper said the piece did not meet its opinion standards and expressed regret for any distress.
- Copies remain online through syndication partners such as MSN, highlighting how deleting a source URL does not erase distributed versions.
- The column carried a guest-view disclaimer and ran with a blue-and-white basketball bearing a Star of David, details that fueled the reaction.
- Coverage by Awful Announcing, Defector, and Yahoo Sports amplified criticism and put new scrutiny on the paper’s vetting of guest submissions and imagery choices.