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Jews are not Israel (something liberal Jews have been saying for years) but nobody – not a London theatre, not even Steven Spielberg – has the right to tell them what to think about it, or to ask them to prove their good Jewish credentials by either supporting or condemning it. Watch yourself, Europe. Some of your roots are showing.

— Hadley Freeman

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Published during the dispute between the Tricycle theatre and UK Jewish Film Festival on the festival's funding and the attempt by the theatre to approve the content of all film's being shown during the festival.

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