Journalists, activists and personalities have issued an open letter condemning the Guardian’s agreement to run a “wildly inaccurate and inflammatory” advert yesterday after papers like The Times refused to publish it.

The ad — which has also been featured in US newspapers such as the New York Times and the Washington Post — was penned by Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel and Zionism supporter Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.

Its headline accused Palestinian resistance movement Hamas of “child sacrifice.”