Wednesday, October 20, 2010

BBC revels in “Jewish” movie director Mike Leigh’s decision to boycott Israel

Robin Shepherd
robinshepherdonline.com
19 October '10

Imagine. Just days after Howard Jacobson won the Booker prize — Britain’s most prestigious literary award — for a book ripping apart that small but vocal section of British Jewry that only ever advertises its Jewishness (or has its Jewishness advertised for it by a grateful liberal-left establishment) when it can be used as a weapon to berate Israel, and I come across the following story on the BBC website: “Mike Leigh cancels Israel trip over loyalty oath”.

Until today, I never knew that Mike Leigh is “himself Jewish”, as the BBC puts it. Now I know. How? Because his Jewishness has been advertised in the context of his decision to boycott Israel’s Sam Spiegel Film and Television School where he had been due to spend a week in November.

Leigh’s decision came, he said, in protest against the proposed loyalty oath for new immigrants: “This is the last straw — quite apart from the ongoing criminal blockade of Gaza, not to mention the endless shooting of innocent people there, including juveniles,” he said in a letter to the School’s director.

The BBC is having a field day.

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