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Edwin land jewish10/29/2023 Other anti-left arguments sound more generalising though: that the left supports the underdog and so stopped supporting Israel after Israel’s victory in the 1967 war (“The sentimental left … cannot sympathise with anyone who wins”). Stephen Bush (Billy Ashcroft) makes a valuable point about the liberal left’s characteristic suspicion of money and power – a loaded association given long-held antisemitic conspiracy theories around Jews running the media and holding all wealth and power. Photograph: Manuel Harlanīut the drama much more compellingly shows how antisemitism pervades across culture, history and is embedded in language itself. ![]() It shows us just how ubiquitous this form of racial bigotry is, way beyond party politics, although we certainly get alarming accounts from Hodge (played by Debbie Chazen) and former Labour shadow minister, Luciana Berger (Louisa Clein) about the inaction and obfuscation they experienced, along with vile intersections between misogyny and antisemitism on social media.īlood libel examined … Jews. The play’s larger framework somewhat undercuts its central purpose to focus on leftwing antisemitism too. These are more distilled moments, filled with potency, and we wish for less so that we can have more, with one argument or experience given its fuller due. The play gains in power when this is dropped for a plainer, stiller form of storytelling, around a table, one character speaking after another – of a swastika being etched into their family car, of growing up in Iraq and listening to radio dramas with offensive Jewish stereotypes, of casual but heinous abuse in schools, taxicabs, offices. Its theatricality does not always land and feels as if it is trying too hard to give the verbatim form a dramatic edge, enacting medieval mystery style mimes while characters recount the origins of antisemitic tropes, from the myth of the moneylending Jew to the lurid fantasy of blood libel (which ties Jewish ritual with the blood of non-Jewish children). ![]() It brings a welter of important, appalling and too-often ignored realities, experiences, arguments, to the stage, but ends up as rather a gallop across centuries of terrain, packing in too much without unpacking it fully enough and touching so many bases that some parts risk sounding like soundbites.
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