Jake Wallis Simons in 2020. (Photo credit: Daily Mail)

Mr Simons has been on TV and print today telling us all that an actor wearing a prosthetic nose is not freedom of artistic expression, but it’s antisemitic.

That is an extremist position to take.

Mr Simons in the Sky News studios earlier today.

The hoo-ha is in relation to Bradley Cooper portraying legendary American conductor, Leonard Bernstein, who was Jewish.

This is how extremist elements try and take over the narrative. Interestingly, Bernstein’s family came out earlier in the defence of artistic freedom, and are happy with the portrayal.

But Mr Simons takes objection to this. By pushing this hyper-sensitive, extremist agenda of suppression.

It very much seems like a concerted effort by extremist elements, to maintain the super sensitivity around Jewish people, in order to shield them from any criticism.

It’s like in neurosurgery when surgeons cannot even go near the swollen area, it can’t be touched and operated on until the swelling has subsided.

Extremist elements do not want this “swelling” around Jewish people to subside – they wish to maintain the “swell” of hyper-sensitivity as a shield for perpetuity, so people are afraid to go even go near criticising anything that involves Jewish people, in fear of being labelled “anti-Semitic”.

This is particularly pertinent in relation to discourse around Palestine and Israel.

Helen Mirren recently played Israeli Jewish Golda Meir, and used a prosthetic nose. Very much like Bradley Cooper has done. There were no such protestations by Mr Simons about that.

Which strongly suggests that there is a political angle to his protestations now.

The Jewish Chronicle, the paper which Mr Simons is the Editor of, has in the past been charged with falsehoods and inaccurate reporting. Often, involving false claims of antisemitism.