The Bloomsbury Theatre has cancelled a Zionist Federation event due to take place there next week, because an Israeli Defence Force (IDF) troupe is due to take part in it.
“Obviously we couldn’t have them perform here,” said a theatre spokeswoman.
A cursory glance across previous and forthcoming events at the Theatre reveals how selective Bloomsbury’s squeamishness is:
They boastfully put on a “controversial” play about assassinating American presidents.
They premiered Jeremy Hardy’s self-indulgent film Jeremy Hardy vs the Israeli Army, presented by the Palestinian Ambassador.
They put on a pile of dishonest crap called How Palestine Became Israel.
They have gleefully lined up Ricky Gervais, who regularly cracks jokes about the Holocaust.
They are preparing to welcome with open arms Tony Benn, of the pro-terrorist Stop The War Coalition.
What cowardly hypocrites run the Bloomsbury Theatre. The fine, brave men and women of the IDF are better off without them. As for the rest of us, we will draw our own conclusions as to Bloomsbury Theatre’s motivations.
(Thanks to the magnificent David Toube.)
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Thank you for bringing this to my attention. Bloomsbury are indeed hypocrites and can rest assured I will never again darken their door.
They also put on my opera, The Whitechapel Whirlwind, the story of Jewish-British boxing champion, Jack ‘Kid’ Berg, so they can’t be all bad.
Gee. OK so as long as they put on your play then everything else is fine and dandy. Whats with luvvies? It isn’t just about you. Thanks for the post Chaz.
Check out an event they hosted in 2006 organised by “Deir Yassin Remembered”. This fringe organisation featured Holocaust Deniers and antisemites Gilad Atzmon (Advisory Board member) and Paul Eisen (Director) and the racist Israel Shamir on its Advisory Board.
We should write to their sponsors and let them know.
Many calls for a boycott of Bloomsbury on the comments here http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1239710742341&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Bloomsbury Theatre is owned by UCL (University College London)What about freedom of expression? I’m an alumna & will be writing to Professor Malcolm Grant, UCL President and Provost,
University College London – Gower Street – London – WC1E 6BT
email: provost@ucl.ac.uk
I hear the Bloomsbury is staging “An Evening with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad”
Seems that for the brain-dead luvvies of London ‘Seven Jewish Children’ with its demonisation of Israeli parents is fine, but an IDF troupe is off limits.
They are pusillanimous, cowardly, dhmmified, appeasing, immoral, blinkered hypocrites
Peter Cadley, the director of Bloomsbury Theatre, has sent out a response to the criticism. It is priceless nonsense and I will be writing more about this soon. What a cowardly hypocrite.
I’m also an alumni of UCL and notwithstanding that they have an excellent Hebrew/Jewish Studies department, I’m not surprised at anything any more here in the UK.
Yep, and even when the Zionist Federation tried to ‘compromise’ by dropping the IDF dance troupe, the Bloomsbury Bigots still refused to allow the gala to go ahead:
http://ajewwithaview.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/they-were-just-going-to-dance-or-thumbs-down-to-the-bloomsbury-bigots/