"A theatre has refused to host the UK Jewish Film Festival while it is sponsored by the Israeli Embassy amid the ongoing crisis in Gaza.
The Tricycle Theatre in London, which has hosted the festival for the past eight years, had been due to screen at least 26 films as part of the event in November.
But Indhu Rubasingham, artistic director of the Tricycle, said the festival should not accept funding from ''any party to the current conflict'' between Israel and Palestinians. "
(The festival got £1400 from the Embassy as part of their cultural budget. The Theatre gets £750, 000 from the Arts Council. )
The festival was backed by actress Maureen Lipman, who said: ''The Tricycle have decided to punish Jewish people in the diaspora for one view of what is taking place in the Middle East and that is quite unacceptable.''
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Is this just anti-Semitic or are they taking a moral stand. Would they have done this over say Syria, Iraq or Nigeria?