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[quote]Edinburgh theatre asked to apologise after anti-Semitic leaflet

By Ashley Perry

The Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh has been asked to apologise after being accused of including an anti-Semitic caricature in a flyer advertising the Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice.

The flyer included an image of the main character Shylock wearing the clothes of a Hasidic Jew with the words, "And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?" in bold letters.

Although the play is about a Jewish money lender, Jon Benjamin, Chief Executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews told the Scotsman newspaper that he was not objecting to the play but the image of the Jew depicted on the flyer.

"It’s a play with many layers that explores prejudice. But that falls by the wayside in the flyer when you see what a lot of people think a Jew looks like, with the words about revenge," Benjamin said.

Controversial play

The Merchant of Venice has long been controversial for its use of medieval anti-Semitism.

The play depicts the figure of Shylock in many negative ways. Shylock is a usurer, a profession that was one of only a few that was open to the Jews in medieval England. In the play, Shylock demands a literal pound of flesh from the hero and is almost never referred to by name but merely as “the Jew.”

A spokeswoman for the Lyceum said in response to the complaint, "To be honest, we are surprised by this response to our advertising material. The text is a direct quote from one of the most powerful scenes in the play."

But Ephraim Borowski, the director of the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities, said: "It is particularly inappropriate that the Lyceum should choose to advertise its production with a picture of a contemporary Orthodox Jew alongside a quotation about revenge that resurrects a traditional anti-Semitic stereotypes."

Challenge to interpret stereotypes

Jimmy Chislom plays Shylock in the play and is depicted in modern day Ultra-Orthodox garb rather than the type of dress a Jew may have worn at the time. William Shakespeare wrote the play at a time when no Jew was allowed to reside in England thanks to a decree of expulsion centuries earlier.

According to a pre-review in The Herald “The challenge for director Mark Thomson and actor Jimmy Chisholm is to strike a balance between the world of the play and our own experience of anti-Semitism.”

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TB how the heck are you?

Do you feel that both sides should be able to say what they want without out it being a crime?

Or do you feel that both topics, persecution of Jews and views on Islam should be a crime?

Just curious.

P.S. the teachers view on Islam is valid by the way.

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Very well now I'm back online with my kick arse Plll 800mghz, 256 meg of ram powerhouse and dial up connection! Long way from 3 computers from not so long ago and a 12 meg ADSL2 connection.:-)

Goes without saying...unless thats a crime as well?:-) Only lies and liars resort to making laws up to prevent the pulling apart of recieved doctrine. Otherwise we would all still consider the Sun revolving around the Earth.

Their are no sacred cows though their may be good taste and tact.:-) When your sure of your position you dont need to make up laws to protect it. The truth protects itself and can never be crushed.

Watch out they dont make up a law out lawing "curiosity" to protect cats.:-)

HAv'nt researched enough to comment with confidence on the Quaran. I'm aware it's basically true.

My personal relations with Muslims here in West Oz have been good. Gracious and polite people. My sister travelled extensivly in Turkey and the Mid East for 2 years and had nothing but praise for Islam and the Arab people. She had never felt safer BAR Egypt! She has just spent a year in Malaysia (muslim nation) and again was received warmly as she observed customs and dressed modestly.

My immediate problem with Islam is the current said and unsaid "snigger" of some Muslims that they will simply take over by outbreeding the so-called Christian West. They wait patiently and this widely held view gets me angry. It is deceitful and why Mohummed cant hold a candle to Christ.

Whatever...it suits the Muzzies. We should seperate into our respective clans and visit each other for holidays observing the customs and laws of local people.

Only brainwashed, idiot "whitey" would cut his own throat with the Zionist/Bolshevik crapola of "tolerence" for other people and the insane notion of "multi culturalism". Yet another "ism" from the brain of the idiot Left. Still, it is designed for a purpose by social engineer's.:-) We are seeing it fall apart. Thank God.

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In France criticism of the gas chambers of Auschwitz is illegal and critics are arrested and prosecuted. TB

I think that every time the jews yell anti semitism they should be locked up for twisting the truth that only jews and not arabs are semitic.