[Marxism] Attempted Censorship of Play "Seven Jewish Children"

[Dennis Brasky <dmozart1756@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> The JTA 
> reports<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/150615/171835/http://jta.org/news/article/2009/05/11/1005062/group-asks-toronto-mayor-to-prevent-play>:
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> B’nai Brith Canada has asked Toronto’s mayor to “use his good offices” to
> prevent the staging of a controversial play at a city-owned theater.
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> The Jewish human rights group says “Seven Jewish Children” by British
> playwright Caryl Churchill is “blatantly propagandist” and “aimed at
> delegitimizing not only Israel but its Jewish supporters worldwide.”
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> The good news is that you can watch Caryl Churchill’s Play, Seven Jewish
> Children<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/150615/171835/http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/feb/26/caryl-churchill-seven-jewish-children-play-gaza>,
> right now. It’ll take under 10 minutes. Make sure you have your box of
> tissues with you.
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> Tony Kushner and Alisa Solomon, who call Churchill “one of the most
> important and influential playwrights living,” recently wrote
> <http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/150615/171835/http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090518/letter>in
> *The 
> Nation*<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/150615/171835/http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090518/letter>about
>  the play’s UK production
> **<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/150615/171835/http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090518/letter>
> :
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> While some British critics greatly admired the play, which was presented by
> a Jewish director with a largely Jewish cast, a number of prominent British
> Jews denounced it as anti-Semitic. Some even accused Churchill of blood
> libel, of perpetrating in *Seven Jewish Children* the centuries-old lie,
> used to incite homicidal anti-Jewish violence, that Jews ritually murder
> non-Jewish children. A spokesman for the Board of Deputies of British Jews
> told the *Jerusalem Post* that the “horrifically anti-Israel” text went
> “beyond the boundaries of reasonable political discourse.”
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> We emphatically disagree. We think Churchill’s play should be seen and
> discussed as widely as possible.
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> Though you’d never guess from the descriptions offered by its detractors,
> the play is dense, beautiful, elusive and intentionally indeterminate. This
> is not to say that the play isn’t also direct and incendiary. It is. It’s
> disturbing, it’s provocative, but appropriately so, given the magnitude of
> the calamity it enfolds in its pages. Any play about the crisis in the
> Middle East that doesn’t arouse anger and distress has missed the point.
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> full article --
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> http://www.muzzlewatch.com/2009/05/11/attempted-censorship-of-play-seven-jewish-children/
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> "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."- *Voltaire*
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