The Frontline Club has insisted that no UK Jewish organisations asked it to cancel a screening of a film about the antisemitic Israeli musician, Gilad Atzmon.
The Frontline, the journalists’ club, showed Gilad and All That Jazz at its London premises on Monday night. At a question and answer session after the screening, with both Mr Atzmon and producer David Alamouti, the film’s director, Gorliz Kolahi, claimed that “various Zionist organisations” had urged the Frontline to pull out of the screening.
But a Frontline spokesperson said: “I have to make it absolutely clear that people expressed concern, but no one asked us to pull out.”
The hour-long film follows the life of the self-described “self-hating Jew”. After the screening, Mr Atzmon “entertained” his audience with Anne Frank, Auschwitz and Jew-money jokes, while comparing himself to Jesus Christ and challenging Holocaust denial legislation.
