Yorkshire pub apologises after allowing quizzers to use antisemitic Golders Green jibe as team name

A pub in Yorkshire has apologised for allowing quizzers to use an anti-Semitic jibe about Golders Green as a team name. 

‘Golders Green should be Golders Greed’ won The Crown at Boston Spa’s weekly quiz on May 4 – just days after two Jewish men were stabbed in the north London suburb.

They were allowed to use the ‘racist’ name throughout the evening without being challenged. 

But now the pub’s manager has issued an apology for the ‘offence and distress’ it caused after a local complained.  

‘The name should not have been accepted, and we take concerns about discrimination and inclusivity very seriously,’ the manager

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