Rachel Creeger's show "Ultimate Jewish Mother" was set to perform at a venue that would receive extra police supervision due to safety concerns over a Jewish act. The decision to remove the Jewish acts from the bill was deemed emblematic of the problem facing Jewish artists in the UK today by Philip Simon, who hosted Jew-O-Rama. The CEO of Free Fringe, which organises its own shows as part of the festival, claimed that the venue made the decision based on a past incident where two Israeli audience members were sworn at after objecting to a joke.