“The Jew of Malta” is to be shown at the Center for Jewish History. Would an African-American group show a racist film at one of their centers?”

ARUTZ SHEVA
Why is a Jewish group showing an anti-Semitic play?
by Morton A. Klein
December 3, 2017

The ZOA has just learned that one of the most anti-Semitic plays of all time, Christopher Marlowe’s “The Jew of Malta” (written in 1565) is scheduled to be performed [December 3] at the Center for Jewish History (CJH) headed by controversial Israel-basher David Myers. Why is a Jewish group showing this anti-Jewish play? Would any African American group ever show the notorious racist film “The Birth of a Nation”?…The play’s protagonist, the Jewish merchant Barabas, is a money-obsessed, vulgar, traitorous mass murderer. The play increased anti-Semitism in England, and contributed to the anti-Semitic atmosphere that led to the torture, conviction and execution of the Queen of England’s Portuguese Jewish physician, Rodrigo Lopez, in 1594, on likely false charges of conspiring to poison the Queen. READ MORE

1 Response to “The Jew of Malta” is to be shown at the Center for Jewish History. Would an African-American group show a racist film at one of their centers?”

janowrite says:

December 3, 2017 at 5:18 pm

Maybe they didn’t read the play first? Unreal.

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