Venue Admits Cancelling Jewish Comedian’s Show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Was Discriminatory
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Edinburgh venue admits discrimination against Jewish comedian
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Venue admits cancelling Jewish comedian’s show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival was discriminatory
A venue has accepted that it discriminated against a Jewish comedian when it cancelled his show at 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe over his views about the Israel-Gaza war. Philip Simon was due to perform his stand-up show at the Banshee Labyrinth on Niddry Street, but the venue scrapped it at short notice after it carried out “routine” checks on his social media. It told industry magazine Chortle that Simon’s views aligned with “groups associate…
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