British Museum delays Jewish Culture Month event after learning of planned protest

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The British Museum postponed its Jewish Culture Month talk on Ancient Israel and Judah after learning some registered attendees intended to deliberately disrupt the event.​

London, England, General view of the British Museum with visitors, Bloomsbury, March 2025. (photo credit: Peter Dazeley/Getty Images)


The British Museum has postponed a Jewish Culture Month event after learning that “registered attendees were individuals intending to deliberately disrupt the event.”

The museum announced Wednesday that the talk – Ancient Israel and Judah in the British Museum – was postponed “due to security concerns” and would not take place as scheduled on Thursday. The talk was to be given by Dr. Paul Collins, Keeper of the Department of the Middle East.

In a statement, the museum said it was recently informed that a “significant proportion of registered attendees were individuals intending to deliberately disrupt the event, preventing others from participating in good faith and undermining the purpose of the program.”

The museum said that it fully recognizes the importance of lawful protest and freedom of expression, but equally, that it has a responsibility to ensure that the events it hosts can proceed safely, securely, and without intimidation for speakers, staff, and visitors alike.

Following discussions with organizers and security partners, a joint decision was allegedly taken to postpone the event to a later date.

The museum stated the decision was made to 'protect the event'​

“This decision was made to protect the event – not to diminish it,” the museum said. “We will continue to support Jewish Culture Month and remain committed to providing a space where history, culture, and scholarship can be explored openly, respectfully, and without disruption.”

The Board of Deputies of British Jews called it “highly regrettable” that individuals have sought to deliberately disrupt a Jewish Culture Month event celebrating Jewish cultural heritage at the British Museum.

“Jewish Culture Month has seen many of Britain’s great cultural institutions partner with us in celebration of British Jewish culture, community, and creativity, and we will not allow the actions of extremists to prevent the British public from enjoying these events,” BoD said.

The organization said it will be working with the British Museum to reschedule the event as soon as possible.

MP Priti Patel said the cancellation of the event “is a sad indictment of the hatred our Jewish communities are experiencing.”

KC David Wolfson queried the “security concerns,” saying if “publicly-funded institutions cannot host such events without folding to pressure, serious questions arise about that funding.”

Historian Simon Sebag Montefiore said it is “dark times when a talk about Ancient Judah and Israel is canceled ‘for security concerns.’”

“Pathetic cowardice,” lamented historian Simon Schama.

 

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Hatred of Jewish people, often called antisemitism, is historically rooted in religious prejudice, systemic scapegoating, and evolving conspiracy theories. Because it has adapted to fit different eras and political ideologies, it is frequently described as history's "longest hatred". [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Understanding this prejudice requires examining several key historical factors:


1. Historical Religious Hatred
For centuries, Jew-hatred was heavily driven by religious differences. During the Middle Ages, some Christians falsely blamed all Jewish people for the death of Jesus, a charge known as "deicide". This led to institutional discrimination, forced conversions, the segregation of Jews into ghettos, and violent myths like the "blood libel" (the false claim that Jews used Christian blood for religious rituals). [1, 2, 3, 4]

2. Scapegoating and Conspiracies

Throughout history, when societies faced plagues, famines, or economic collapse, marginalized minorities were often scapegoated. Because Jews were often kept out of mainstream society, they were frequently targeted during crises.

• Fabricated Conspiracies: The most famous is The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a completely fabricated text created in Russia in the early 1900s that falsely claimed Jews were attempting to take over the world. [1, 2]
• Contradictory Stereotypes: Prejudiced ideologies have often projected conflicting ideas onto Jews. For example, during the 19th and 20th centuries, Jews were simultaneously accused of being greedy capitalists and subversive communists. [1, 2, 3]

3. Racial Theories
In the 19th and 20th centuries, as pseudo-scientific racial theories gained popularity, antisemitism shifted from being a religious prejudice into a racist ideology. Racist antisemites claimed that Jewish people were biologically and morally inferior. This dangerous shift was the driving force behind the Holocaust, during which Nazi Germany attempted to exterminate the Jewish population. [1, 2, 3, 4]

4. Modern Manifestations
Antisemitism did not end after World War II. Today, it often flares up in the form of Holocaust denial, conspiracy theories about Jewish control of global finance and media, and sometimes the extreme demonization of the State of Israel, which can cross the line into antisemitism