This war began on October 7, 2023, with the massacre of 378 young people at the Nova music festival—artists and dreamers slaughtered for "the crime of being Jewish" and dancing under the desert sky. Now the cultural world has decided the victims were the problem.

The irony cuts like a rusty knife through silk. Right now, at The Edinburgh International Festival—the same festival founded in 1947 by Sir Rudolf Bing, an Austrian-Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany—Jewish comedians are being cancelled for the revolutionary act of existing. Bing's first invited artists were German; he envisioned "healing the wounds of war through art"—a gesture of reconciliation. He couldn't have imagined a more perverted scenario than cancelling Jews at his festival.

The cancellation epidemic spreads like digital wildfirePhilip Simon and Rachel Creeger, British Jewish artists, had their Edinburgh Fringe shows axed—not for political content, mind you, but because venues deemed their mere Jewish presence "incompatible with our stance against the current Israeli government."

Because nothing says "principled political stance" like punishing people for existing, right?