Overview

• PBH Free Fringe continues to search for replacement venues for Rachel Creeger’s Ultimate Jewish Mother and Philip Simon’s Jew-O-Rama after bookings were pulled.
• Police Scotland confirmed it received no reports of concern regarding Creeger’s performance, undermining the venues’ security-based justifications.
• First Minister John Swinney said venue managers must assess their own security risks, stopping short of challenging the cancellations.
• Fellow Fringe artists have rallied behind the comedians even as Creeger and Simon face hate messages and threats warning them not to return.
• Venue rationales spanned Whistle Binkies’ disproven claims of an IDF vigil and graffiti issues to Banshee Labyrinth’s social media vetting of Simon’s pro-Israel posts.