This is a film of a play by the acclaimed playwright Caryl Churchill, now 86, who is not of Jewish heritage. In 2022, Churchill had her European Drama Award cancelled due to her support of boycott, divestment and sanctions [BDS] and Palestinians. Audiences eavesdrop on imagined conversations in Jewish households from the Russian pogroms of 1903 to the 2008-09 Israeli attacks in Gaza. When first staged at the Royal Court, there was vociferous anger amid claims it was antisemitic.
In the present political climate, the breaking of a long-held political census is another example of courage, which we see in a column by Lord William Hague, now Chancellor of Oxford, for The Times. Advice from the previous Atlanticist Tory to Keir Starmer – the power-pleaser – runs under a headline instructing the Prime Minster to “prepare for an American divorce”.
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Canada is already starting that process. As election fever builds up, usually equable Canadians are showing angry determination to keep their identity and resist the colonizing big power next door. It is quite remarkable.
We hear little about them, but anti-Trump protests have been breaking out all around the US too. Fifty protests in 50 states took place on 5 February. Since then the momentum has grown. Some protesters hate his billionaire backer, Elon Musk, and want him away from government. Tesla is becoming a toxic brand.
The incisive comedian Amber Ruffin – bold, gifted and black – who was to perform at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner has just been disinvited, because, you know, she could upset the Big Guy and his administration. These hacks say they hold truth to power. Yeah, right.
This American supremacist President is incinerating the body, brain, heart and soul of his nation. Abortion, scientific research, aid, birthright citizenship, migration – which built America – the rule of law are all being thrown on the bonfire of gigantic vanities. As Daniel Geary writes in The Irish Times: “Trump and Musk appear to be operating under the philosophy that if you want to make an omelette, you don’t just break a few eggs, you slaughter all the chickens and burn down the hen houses.”
The left-wing idol, Senator Bernie Sanders, coos, “It can’t simply be, “Oh, it’s a Trump idea, we oppose it.’” As US columnist Moira Donegan cuttingly observes: “Democrats seem less like a resistance than an acquiescence. They are not mounting any meaningful opposition to Trump’s aggressive, sadistic mission. Instead they’re rolling over, like a submissive dog showing its belly, and alternately casting this posture as either a principled commitment to constitutional order or as an unfortunate inevitability for which they can’t be blamed.”
See how they try to placate the elected US tyrant. Cringe. See how spineless MPs wont speak up against Labour’s worst policies. See how some of our cultural bodies, and universities try to come across as “patriotic” and not too woke because those are now party values.
A Labour peer I know, is in despair. So speak out, I said: “Can’t do that my dear. That would damage my party and me.” This is what political and cultural cowardice does to a society. It’s base and ignoble and in the long run, harms us all.
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