Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitask“Rare Earth Mettle”, which opened in November, featured a megalomaniac tycoon whose name, before an outcry, was to be Hershel Fink. The character wasn’t Jewish, but the name clearly was. For Jews, the context sharpened the sting of this old, defamatory link to rapacious wealth.
Vicky Featherstone, the artistic director, says she and Tracy-Ann Oberman, an actor and vocal opponent of anti-Semitism, had already discussed doing a play about its rise on the left. The scandal sped up their plan. The result, on now, is “Jews. In Their Own Words.” The text is by Jonathan Freedland, an eminent left-leaning Jewish journalist, who was persuaded that the theatre was “all in”. It weaves together interviews with a dozen British Jews, including Ms Oberman, politicians, writers, a social worker and a painter-decorator . It mentions another furore at the Royal Court, over “Seven Jewish Children”, put on in 2009.
Little things are connected to big things; that is part of the message. An affront at the house theatre of the British left drew on age-old slurs that have contributed to awful suffering and, yes, even to the Holocaust, which looms at the edge of these stories and lives. Not everyone wants to hear that warning. Ms Featherstone says the theatre is receiving the sort of anti-Semitic abuse and trolling that some of the characters describe . But the play makes another, hopeful point too.
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A great many decent people criticised the Israeli govt last August when they killed 44 children in Gaza. Are they the left wing anti semites you speak of?
Unfortunately, it will change nothing. Not sure it will even result in changes at the Royal Court. Antisemitism has been around as long as there have been Jews and others to hate them. Nothing has changed and there is nothing to suggest anything will change.
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I think you guys are just trying to manipulate and this words are more true than ever.
Yeah, the left wing is the one attacking Jewish folk..
Why placing such important article behind a conditional wall?
Why do they keep killing Palestinians?
'It's not us, it's you.'
Interesting
The US should worry about its war crimes at the world. According to the atrocities that the United States has committed on humanity, the existence of the US is a threat to the entire humanity, and the US should be declared a country with a criminal mindset against humanity.
You couldn't pay me to see this.
'The text is by Jonathan Freedland, an eminent left-leaning Jewish journalist' Here is a sample of Freedland as defamer of Corbyn:
antisemitism = objecting to those who celebrate mass murder