Jews aren’t all ‘stinking rich’: Dinner party anti-Semitism is horribly predictable | Telegraph.co.uk
Sajid Javid, the Business Secretary, has cleverly pinpointed a tricky area of prejudice – highlighting the cultural stereotypes regularly trotted out by Britain’s middle classes, writes Emma Barnett
A few weeks ago I was at a function with some people I’d never met before. Thrust together by a clinical seating plan, the conversation was predictably bland – dominated by pleasantries and platitudes. That was until a portly gentlemen in his thirties decided to tell the table about a wedding he had coming up. “It’s going to be a very Jewish wedding,” he declared. “How so? Is it in a synagogue?” I inquired, intrigued.
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