The Sunday Expresstoday rejected suggestions the article it published by BBC presenter Robert Kilroy-Silk was racist.
The BBC has suspended Mr Kilroy-Silk's daytime discussion show pending an internal investigation and the presenter himself has apologised for his controversial remarks about Arabs in last Sunday's paper.
But the Sunday Express, quoted in today's Daily Express, said: "The article was not racist. It was legalled by lawyers and there is absolutely no case to answer."
Under the headline 'We Owe Arabs Nothing', Mr Kilroy-Silk branded Arabs as "suicide bombers, limb amputators, women repressors".
The Commission for Racial Equality has referred the matter to the police.
Mr Kilroy-Silk apologised last night saying: "I greatly regret the offence which has been caused by the article published in last weekend's Sunday Express."
He said the article was first written and published in April last year and had been "republished last weekend in error".
He added: "When the article was originally published last year, it caused no comment or outcry and, I was told at the time, generated only a couple of letters to the paper.
>"I would never have wished it to be republished in this manner and it is not what I would have said today," he said.
He said the article had caused offence because it had been taken out of the context in which he wrote it.
"It was originally written as a response to the views of opponents to the war in Iraq that Arab States 'loathe' the West and my piece referred to 'Arab States' rather than 'Arabs'," he said.