Arts and entertainment

“Stop condemning antisemitism”: comedian who made inflammatory remarks about Israel and Jewish people books tour of Canada

“People should know they can do incredible things”: ‘A Small Light’ Executive Producer and Director Susanna Fogel on creating the series

Event featuring author Bret Easton Ellis reportedly sees walk-outs after allegedly saying Kanye West is not an antisemite

True-crime author Michael Benson speaks to CAA about Jewish mobsters and American Nazis

Matty Healy appears to perform Nazi salute on stage

Sold-out crowd arrives for “CAA presents…An evening with Ben M. Freeman”

Award-winning French Jewish filmmaker Amanda Sthers reveals she left France due to antisemitism

“Why should I have to change everything about myself?” Jewish rapper Westside Gravy on refusing to cower to antisemitism and anti-Black racism

CAA announces new event: “An evening with Ben M. Freeman”

“Unlike anything I’ve experienced”: Jewish artist describes relentless online harassment

Success for CAA as London venue cancels appearance from notorious antisemite Alison Chabloz

London venue shamelessly set to host notorious antisemite Alison Chabloz

Far-right music festival cancelled in Scotland

Theatre company pulls production of Romeo and Juliet set in Nazi Germany

Hitler painting shredded by Jimmy Carr for Channel 4 television programme reportedly a fake

CAA launches petition calling on Adidas to drop partnership with Ye (aka Kanye West) following his repeated antisemitic outbursts

Channel 4 purchases Hitler painting for Jimmy Carr to potentially destroy in television programme

Royal Court Theatre faces torrent of abuse over new play highlighting antisemitism

Chart-topping Hasidic Jewish rapper says his way of fighting antisemitism is “to be proudly Jewish”

Artist with history of inflammatory social media posts about Jews granted exhibition in London art space

British contestant on Israeli reality TV programme says antisemitism made him leave the UK

“Find other Jews you can talk to”: Meet the Jewish actors calling out antisemitism

Rapper apologises for wearing anti-fascist t-shirt with confusingly prominent swastika at music festival

Tampa students hold art exhibition in response to recent antisemitism surge

Bestselling author Stephen King calls Ukrainian Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera a “great man” during prank call

Documenta art festival director resigns over antisemitism scandal

Arab airlines to screen film about Portuguese Inquisition’s persecution of Jews

Israeli Charedi woman creates immersive virtual reality film about Auschwitz

Documenta 15 art festival opens amid controversy about representations of Jews in Indonesian art collective’s work

Cardiff Council reconsidering sculpture of radio pioneer due to his role in “excluding Jewish scientists”

Painter and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors turns her experiences of antisemitism into art

Celebrated author who implied Jews were paedophiles and wrote “Are Goyim meant to be slaves of Jews?” is asked to speak at university

Singer who called Hitler a “good guy” and the Holocaust a “profitable hoax” disinvited from benefit concert

Creator of first ever video game about the Holocaust aims to educate future generations on the Shoah

Boston Couple to Create “Powerful Museum” About the Holocaust in the City

“You have to be annoyed about something to joke about it. What annoys me? Antisemitism”: Comedian Elon Gold on using comedy as a weapon against Jew-hatred

Glasgow museum displays works looted from Jews by the Nazis but refuses to identify which works

Anne Frank betrayal book recalled after being refuted by historians

Royal Court Theatre publishes encouraging report on Rare Earth Mettle controversy but “the proof of the pudding will be in the eating”

Nazi concentration camps recreated in popular children’s online game

Whoopi Goldberg suspended by ABC for two weeks after claiming Holocaust was not about race but instead about “man’s inhumanity to man” and “white people fighting each other”

Publisher apologises over book claiming Jewish person betrayed Anne Frank

Evan Rachel Wood accuses musician Marilyn Manson of writing “kill all the Jews” above her side of the bed

Ridley Road star Agnes O’Casey reveals what it’s like playing a Jewish woman infiltrating a neo-Nazi group in first ever TV role

Prince of Wales commissions seven artists to paint portraits of Holocaust survivors

“I hate the word ‘hate’”: columnist and academic Zoe Strimpel gives her take on contemporary antisemitism

Comedian Jon Stewart clarifies remarks, insisting that he never accused JK Rowling of antisemitism in her portrayal of goblins in Harry Potter series

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Autumn Rowe explains why why she helped to set up the Black-Jewish Entertainment Alliance

Theatre critic Kate Maltby decries Royal Court Theatre’s “unconscious bias” that led to Herschel Fink scandal

Lord Grade tells Podcast Against Antisemitism BBC’s reportage of Oxford Street incident is “shoddy journalism”

Eddie Marsan tells Podcast Against Antisemitism that antisemitism is often ignored or even indulged in because it’s seen as a “trendy racism”

CAA launches Podcast Against Antisemitism, a weekly podcast streaming every Thursday, with David Baddiel as our first special guest

Van Gogh painting stolen from Rothschild by Nazis sells for record $35 million

Scrutiny grows on Sour Lemons after Royal Court Theatre issues apology and changes character’s name amid complaints of antisemitism

Kanye West says that Jewish people “kill each other in business” during interview

French court clears Jean-Marie Le Pen over “oven batch” remark about Jewish singer

Musician Alex Clare was reportedly told to choose between his career or religion by record label

French President inaugurates Dreyfus affair museum in Paris

National Gallery removes “antisemitic” artwork from online exhibition

“Can you racially abuse Jewish people?” former footballer John Barnes, wonders in new book

Ridley Road actors Eddie Marsan and Tracy-Ann Oberman receive antisemitic abuse on Twitter

Saudi children’s cartoon animates story where Allah turns Jews into apes due to their “trickery and deception”

Outrage online after host club in Osaka holds Nazi-themed night

CAA to write to BBC after blurb for French period drama describes Alfred Dreyfus as “notorious Jewish spy”

CAA writes to Netflix over provocateur Dave Chappelle’s antisemitic comments in ‘comedy’ special

Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to meet British ambassador after right-wing author accused of antisemitism was denied entry into UK

Teenage actor who played role of antisemitic bully in a film is now suspected of the real-life assault of 60-year-old Hamburg man

Sacked Eton teacher shares interview with author who claimed “Jews were always behind pornography”

Antisemitism is being spread through video games, research shows

In fawning obituary, The Guardian omits antisemitism of self-avowed antisemite

BBC Bargain Hunt expert apologises for sale of Nazi memorabilia at his auction house

Quentin Tarantino says Hollywood made fun of 1980s Israeli directors “in an antisemitic way”

Student who downloaded nearly 70,000 neo-Nazi and bomb-making documents spared jail, instead told to read classic literature

Controversial Warsaw art exhibition features artist previously jailed for placing swastikas at Jewish community centre

World’s biggest video-game streaming site tries to curb “hate raids”

“Jeopardy!” game show host quits after comments about Jews surface

Australian pop-punk band “shocked and saddened” at former band member’s reported neo-Nazi posts

“Equity’s Inequity”: Demonstrators say actors’ union helped escalate “upsurge in antisemitism in the UK”

Porn sites allow antisemitic content to remain despite being notified

One year after his antisemitic social media rampage, why on earth is Wiley back on Twitter, Instagram and YouTube?

CAA calls on music festival to drop unrepentant antisemite Wiley from line-up

Success for CAA as Hitler-loving radio host who called for Jews to be murdered and asked listeners for a gun sentenced to 32 months in prison

Cartoonist suspended from YesCymru after posting “blatantly antisemitic caricature” of fellow member

Dieudonné fined by Swiss courts for Holocaust denial sketch just days after being handed prison sentence in France

Jewish inclusion officer for children’s book society resigns after receiving death threats and abuse for speaking out against antisemitism

Dieudonné sentenced to four months’ imprisonment for videos of an “antisemitic nature”

Murals defaced with Nazi graffiti in Ukiah, California

Dame Maureen Lipman quits actors’ union Equity after it reportedly encouraged its members to join antisemitism-infested rallies

Conservative MP Dr Matthew Offord to write to BBC’s Director-General requesting BBC not broadcast Alexei Sayle Desert Island Discs episode after comedian claimed allegations of antisemitism “amongst supporters of Jeremy Corbyn are a complete fabrication”

Van Morrison faces fresh controversy after releasing new song entitled “They Own the Media”

Bestselling author gets called out for antisemitic tropes in her books

Antisemitism is a “smear sword wielded at behest of the Israeli Government”, according to Roger Waters

History group drops plans to celebrate works of William Cobbett over antisemitism concerns

“Jews to the ovens” and other neo-nazi abuse as Gaia Servadio book presentation is Zoombombed

Bulgarian TV host apologises after allegedly denying Holocaust on air

Dieudonné must pay fine or face prison for mocking Holocaust in a video

Norway state-owned radio morning-show host pejoratively refers to “God’s chosen people” in on-air rant

Jewish students face mix of solidarity and antisemitic backlash for raising concerns over appearance of controversial filmmaker Ken Loach at St Peter’s College, Oxford

Positive review of Jewish Cookbook in The Observer sparks antisemitic comments online

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