Published: 5 February 2021
Last updated: 4 March 2024
A COLUMN IN the Observer that paid tribute to Claudia Roden’s encyclopaedic Book of Jewish Food sparked a torrent of anti-Semitic abuse on social media.
An online user shared screenshots on Monday of Facebook responses to a now-deleted Guardian post promoting the Jay Rayner piece published last week.
Comments contained references to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and some drew parallels to Nazi Germany, according to screenshots circulated by anti-racism activist Joanne Bell.
One user wrote: “No; I do not eat stolen food from the original owners, Palestinian.”
Another asked: “Would you have bought a German recipe book during WWII slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent people?
“Even though the author may have been living somewhere else, Britain perhaps?”
FULL STORY Observer article about Claudia Roden food book sparks torrent of antisemitism (Jewish Chronicle)
