>>509449884>It has been used for more than 50 years Why 50? It's Shakespeare. Curious refrain from exploiting an opportunity for hyperbole.
>Shylock Most anons probably don't know that the first children's film to be banned, outright forbidden, in the US was 1948's Oliver Twist, directed by David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia), because the ADL's predecessors seethed that the character Fagin the Merchant (Charles Dickens's update of Shylock played by Obi-Wan Kenobi) would cause a pogrom in America. This is some history many anons should look into, but it's been memoryholed from popular culture and they do not like it mentioned, what with David Lean considered a top 10 all time director (and Spielberg's favorite).
From Wikipedia:
The New York Board of Rabbis appealed to Eric Johnston, head of the Production Code Administration, to keep the film out of the U.S. Other Jewish groups also objected, and the Rank Organization announced in September 1948, that U.S. release was "indefinitely postponed.
Read this, top kek:
As a result of such protests, the film was not released in the United States until 1951, with 12 minutes of footage removed.[8] It received great acclaim from critics, but, unlike Lean's Great Expectations, another Dickens adaptation, no Oscar nominations. The film was banned in Israel for antisemitism.
>It was banned in Egypt for portraying Fagin too sympathetically.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Twist_(1948_film)
Recommend diving into archived news stories about the Oliver Twist ban from the 40s because it's such a great rugpull to use when modern censorship rears its head.
Just know that Obi Wan-Kenobi was redpilled.