How British celebrity actress libelled supporter of Palestinian rights and the role of a children’s charity in attempting to launder her image.
The actress and celebrity Tracy Ann Oberman has spent many years on British television screens. She featured in the soap opera Eastenders and in a recent BBC series Ridley Road, which whitewashed the extremist Zionist connections of a British “anti-fascist” group in the 1960s. Recently, she has taken to the road performing the controversial role of Shylock in the Shakespeare play Merchant of Venice. Some have claimed that the Shylock character perpetuates Judeophobic stereotypes, though Oberman, has made something of a name for herself by accusing others of “antisemitism”.
Oberman has implied that almost everyone from Amnesty International to Equity, the union for actors and general creatives are motivated by antisemitism. The crime of her targets has almost always been connected to their support for the Palestinian cause. Here she is referring to herself as a ‘defacto leader’ of Jews in the entertainment business, smearing the actors’ union Equity as racist for supporting a demonstration for Palestinian rights.
But in a twist of fate, Oberman has recently become the accused. On April 4, 2021, she falsely claimed that academic and Palestinian rights activist, Dr. Phillip Proudfoot, had a “Jew block list” on Twitter. This was of course completely false. Dr. Proudfoot had in fact only used a Twitter Block Chain, a...
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