The New York Times has endorsed the Metropolitan Opera’s production of “The Death of Klinghoffer”. Background from CAMERA on how the media has addressed this production which many feels romanticizes terrorists.
JEWISH JOURNAL
by Judea Pearl
September 19, 2014
Friends and Fellow protesters:
In joining you today to protest the New York Metropolitan Opera production of this opera, I echo the silenced voice of my son, Daniel Pearl, and the silenced voices of other victims of terror, including James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and including thousands of men, women and children who were murdered, maimed or left heartbroken by the new menace of our generation, a menace that the Met has decided to accept and orchestrate as just another activity of normative civilized society, just another phenomenon worthy of artistic expression.
They tell us that the composer tried to “understand the hijackers, their motivations, and their grievances.” I submit to you that there has never been a crime in human history lacking grievance and motivation. The 9/11 lunatics had profound motivations, and the murderers of my son, Daniel Pearl, had very compelling “grievances.”…..We do not stage operas for rapists and child molesters, and we do not compose symphonies for penetrating the minds of ISIS executioners. …..
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