The Guardian newspaper confronted earlier this week claims alleging that the U.K. daily published material that included language that could be construed as anti-Semitic, admitting that it had to be "more vigilant" to maintain the Guardian's reputation.

In a column published on Sunday, the paper's readers' editor Chris Elliot referred to claims that the "Guardian, in print or online, is carrying material that either lapses into language resonant of anti-Semitism or is, by its nature, anti-Semitic."

While Elliot defended the paper's commitment to balanced reporting, he spoke of three incidents, saying "in the last nine months I have upheld complaints against language within articles that I agreed could be read as anti-Semitic."