Si hoy hay una batalla cultural que es urgente luchar, esa es la de la defensa de los valores de los judíos e Israel. En estos aciagos días inundados de cultura woke, de un progresismo fundamentalista cortapisas, de la imposición violenta y amenazante de una izquierda fascista y enferma, hay que levantar la voz más que nunca y ser valientes en enfrentar a quienes quieren imponernos un mundo irracional y anárquico. 

Los casos de antisemitismo a nivel global se dispararon. Ya no es un tema aislado. Una investigación hecha por el Times de Londres muestra la gravedad de lo que está sucediendo. 

Y no, el silencio no debe ser una opción. 

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Britain’s cultural world has turned its back on Jewish creatives according to a series of allegations gathered by The Times.

Artists, writers and performers have stated that they are being frozen out of British cultural life because they refuse to describe Israeli actions in Gaza as genocidal.

While many have chosen to remain anonymous because of the “chilling” cultural climate in the country, others have decided to speak out.

A film producer, who is planning to build one of the biggest film studios in Europe in Sunderland, said his industry was “institutionally antisemitic” while the organiser of the UK Jewish Film festival said cinemas were making it “impossible” for it to book venues for screening.

A series of literary figures meanwhile have described how they have been dropped by their agents because they refuse to use the word “genocide”, how authors are refusing to have their books transcribed into Hebrew and how they are being excluded from literary festivals and other readings.

The art world has also been affected with Tate, for example, being threatened with a boycott by artists unless it ends sponsorship from trusts set up by individuals deemed to be close to the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu. Tate has not commented.

Another prominent gallery is involved in a dispute with one of its workers who wore an Israel badge.

Jonathan Shalit, the head of one of the country’s biggest talent agencies, said that he had been warned that his willingness to “support Israel and speak on behalf of Judaism” would hinder attempts to have him chosen as the chairman of a “major organisation within the arts industry”.

Shalit said he was told by the unnamed organisation’s chief executive that some trustees “might have a problem with you as chair because of your Wikipedia page and the fact you’re Jewish and support Israel and speak on behalf of Judaism”.

Michael Etherton, the head of the UK Jewish Film festival, said cinemas had made it “impossible” to make bookings.

“If you [venue staff] are pushed then say an email went to junk,” Etherton said of the venues he claims were excluding the festival’s films.

“Say we’re incredibly busy as a venue, leave it so so late so that it’s actually impossible. Suggest dates that you know are outside the festival dates so it becomes impossible to do anything on that date,” he said.

Leo Pearlman, whose company Fulwell 73 is building the Sunderland film centre and is behind productions such as Gavin and Stacey, said the industry was “institutionally antisemitic”.

Pearlman cited the brick wall he had hit while trying to promote a documentary film he helped produce, We Will Dance Again, about the Hamas-led killings on October 7, 2023, which targeted the Nova music festival.

He said the “completely apolitical” film, which was given a string of four and five-star reviews after being shown on BBC, had been “shut down at every turn by the international documentary association, by people we try and take advertising with, by the festivals that we try and get it into ever since it was released … at every single turn that film has absolutely no chance whatsoever of competing on an equal footing”.

Pearlman added: “When you say are Jews welcome in the arts, certain Jews are welcome in the arts. If you’re a Jew who is making content that is deemed acceptable by those who sit to the far left … then you’re more than welcome.”

Lucy Abrahams, a literary scout who works with publishers to acquire works for translation, said the boycott of Israel’s cultural world by authors including Sally Rooney — who refused permission for her latest novel to be translated into Hebrew — would have “absolutely no effect on the war”.

Abrahams said the “cultural boycott is misdirected, illiberal and counterproductive at best, bullying, demonising and discriminatory at worst”.

“What it will do is isolate and punish the very people who work the hardest on the ground in Israel to build bridges with Palestinian writers, and make those who overwhelmingly are desperate for peace in the region feel thoroughly abandoned by their natural allies,” she added.