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March 28, 2025, 5:42 pm
OPINION: Snubbing antisemitism conference is virtue-signalling gone mad
Sharing a conference hall with the populists proved unpalatable for many of the UK’s Jewish community’s great and good
By Jonathan Baz
Tracy-Ann Oberman as Shylock Credit: Marc Brenner
January 14, 2025, 1:15 pm
OPINION: Alas, Merchant of Venice 1936 feels like 2025
Tracy-Ann Oberman’s revival offers a haunting reflection of today’s hatred, as the play’s warnings against prejudice resonate with unnerving urgency in the aftermath of 7 October
By Jonathan Baz
John Lithgow as Roald Dahl
January 8, 2025, 12:57 pm
OPINION: Why is antisemitism filling London’s theatres?
Hatred aimed at Jewish people has become a box office sensation
By Jonathan Baz
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April 3, 2024, 4:36 pm
Downton Abbey star accused of ‘Jew-baiting’ after vile tweet to Tracy-Ann Oberman
'What is your response to Israel's actions today!' Samantha Bond asks British Jewish actress following tragic killing of seven aid workers in Gaza
By Michelle Rosenberg
An antisemitism protest march in November. Credit: Guy Bell/Alamy Live News
February 28, 2024, 4:11 pm
OPINION: When will our Jewish communal leaders show genuine courage?
Will Jewish leadership in the UK, with the possible exception of Campaign Against Antisemitism, ever be courageous enough to stand up publicly to evil?
By Alex Brummer
Tracy-Ann Oberman, a force of nature
December 14, 2023, 5:12 pm
Why we need Tracy-Ann Oberman
The actor who wears her activist heart on her sleeve returns as Shylock in January
By Brigit Grant
Howard Jacobson speaks at the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism
October 23, 2023, 11:10 pm
‘Antisemitism is the passion dead Jews arouse in their killers to kill more of them’
In a lecture at the centre on Sunday, the acclaimed novelist Howard Jacobson says: 'I have lived a long time and seen such things, but never before hysterical glory in the slaughter of sleeping babies'
By Howard Jacobson
The trial scene in The Merchant of Venice
January 26, 2023, 12:03 pm
OPINION: A timeline of prejudice, from Shylock to the Shoah
Holocaust Memorial Day Trust's Farayi Mungazi on why the long-lasting impact of antisemitic tropes in Merchant of Venice remain dangerously relevant today.
By Farayi Mungazi
September 22, 2022, 11:46 am
He said ‘Shelock’: The Merchant of Venice Revisited
Tracy-Ann Oberman and Howard Jacobson discuss the play, its problems and prejudices
By Jenni Frazer
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