A Jew has made a film of a notorious, openly antisemitic British play
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Of course, it was bound to be premiered in London.
A film that’s been made of Caryl Churchill’s play Seven Jewish Children, which demonises not just Israel but the Jewish people with poisonous tropes going back to medieval times when Jews were slaughtered in Britain and Europe as the result of such incitement, has opened in London, today’s capital city of Jew-hatred as high culture.
The play was first staged in 2009 at London’s cutting-edge and left-wing Royal Court theatre. In a country where lies about Israel had already long been progressive orthodoxy, and where that beleaguered nation was already the routine target of demonisation, double standards and delegitimisation in intellectual and political circles, Churchill’s play nevertheless caused widespread shock and condemnation. That was because it was nakedly, unambiguously and sickeningly anti-Jew.
The play was written to condemn another of Israel’s wars in Gaza, the 22-day “Operation Cast Lead” in 2008/9. As ever, this was waged to stop the persistent terrorist attacks and rocket fire from Gaza targeting Israeli civilians.
The play’s conceit involved Jews talking to an unseen young female relative about seven major events involving the Jewish people, including the Czarist pogroms, the Holocaust, the creation of the State of Israel, the Six-Day War, the First and Second Intifadas and Cast Lead. Its vicious message was that the Jewish victims of savage killers over the decades have turned into savage killers themselves.
No surprise, then, that in today’s poisonous climate of Jew-hatred in Britain this travesty is being given a new lease of life. But now there’s a twist and an even higher level of communal trauma...
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