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Jews Don’t Count
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The title of this article is taken from a documentary by British comedian —David Baddiel.
To non-Brits and those who aren’t familiar with Baddiel, he was one-half of Baddiel and Skinner, a duo best known for their football show and their hit song, football’s coming home in the mid-1990s in the United Kingdom.
Jews don’t count is about the degree to which anti-semitism has flown under the radar in mainstream western society. We get to see footage of Whoppie Goldberg’s asinine comments about the holocaust from much earlier this year to the absence of any direct condemnation of this ancient bigotry from Britain’s progressive politicians.
The timing of the documentary by Baddiel, who is Jewish, is incredibly propitious; the rise in attacks of Jewish synagogues in the United Kingdom, the United States of America and France, in the last few years have been quite alarming.
And when you have the likes of Kanye West outdoing himself every other week with brand new bigoted statements about Hitler and Jewish people, it does show the scale and scope of anti-semitism with which the world and the Jewish community are grappling in the twenty-first century. And the silence and complicity of the wider world.
It must be said, however, that the show was a bit problematic.