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‘Jewish’ slur on Weinstein’s behaviour prompts backlash and apology

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Published: 14 October 2017

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Uproar after an editor-at-large at the Tablet labelled the disgraced producer “a deeply Jewish kind of pervert”. Actress Mayim Bialik reflects on Weinstein's Hollywood

Why I’ll be teaching both ‘Portnoy’s Complaint’ and this Harvey Weinstein essay (Forward)
It was with great horror that I read Mark Oppenheimer’s piece, The Specifically Jewy Perviness of Harvey Weinstein, published in the Tablet last week. Oppenheimer likened Weinstein – now accused of numerous instances of sexual assault and other perverse behaviour – to Roth’s infamous character Alexander Portnoy

Mayim Bialik: Being a feminist in Harvey Weinstein’s world (New York Times)
Though I am shocked and disgusted by the scope of his alleged predation, the fact that he may have abused his position of power does not surprise me in the least

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