Sir, – I wonder did Cahal McLaughlin (August 12th) check with the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn if it reviewed the funding of every single event it hosts or just the Jewish Film Festival (JFF).
Did it check what events received funding via Russia or China, or from rich people who use such events as a way to avoid tax? Do its facilities use any products produced by companies like Apple, and if so did it have no regard to the labour practices employed by that company? How does it decide which states it will allow to fund events and which it won’t.
The real question to ask is who exactly started the conversation at the Tricycle Theatre about how the Jewish Film Festival was funded. The only reason to single out a Jewish event is because the person who first raised the issue is anti-Semitic, because otherwise the theatre would have simply announced that it would accept no events directly funded by any embassy.
Did it never occur to Mr McLaughlin that the JFF might be an opportunity for the Jewish, Muslim and Christian communities to come together and set an example of inter-religious friendship? –Yours, etc,
DESMOND FitzGERALD,
Canary Wharf,
London