Save us from moralizing by the hypocrites on Broadway. Please.
The latest Israel hatred (Jew hatred?) is upon us. This time it is from the “artists” from Broadway.
Here are salient excerpts fom Kyle Smith’s article for National Review:
When the Lincoln Center Festival announced it was staging a four-night production this month that is subsidized by the state of Israel, dozens of big-name professionals from New York’s theater world, including highly regarded actors, writers, and directors, demanded the play be scrapped.
An open letter published by the activist group “Adalah-NY, the New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel” was signed by, among others, the Pulitzer Prize–winning playwrights Tracy Letts, Lynn Nottage, and Annie Baker; the acclaimed director Sam Gold; actress Greta Gerwig; rock star Roger Waters; and the playwright-actor Wallace Shawn and his My Dinner with Andre costar Andre Gregory. They claim that the scheduled performances of David Grossman’s play To the End of the Land will help “the Israeli Government to implement its systematic ‘Brand Israel’ strategy of employing arts and culture to divert attention from the state’s decades of violent colonization, brutal military occupation and denial of basic rights to the Palestinian people.”
In other words: How dare Israel back a play that isn’t about how horrible Israel is to the Palestinians. And Lincoln Center must steer clear of this moral atrocity by canceling the play. Baker, who is herself Jewish, added, nonsensically, “I think the phrase ‘cultural boycott’ scares people, and it’s important to remember that a) it’s not a boycott against individual artists or nationalities, and b) it has historical precedent as an extremely effective way to call attention to apartheid (yes, Israel is an apartheid state) and influence policy.”
The article goes on – and I urge you to use the link I’ve provided and read every word. But I think you get the idea.
These, of course, are the same principled artists who did not protest last months performance of Julius Caesar, which graphically showed a Donald Trump lookalike being murdered.
Have they ever protested performances that were from any other country on earth? Even freedomless communist China? If they have, you’ll have to prove it to me, because I’ve never seen or heard of that protest.
These are hate-filled hypocrites, marching in step to the drum of the prevailing cause celebre of the left. in other words, their lords and masters.
Has this ridiculous bunch ever protested North Korea? Syria? How about hamas and hezbollah, those nice folks who are committed to obliterating Israel and killing every Jew?
Nope. They’re all OK, or at any rate OK enough not to protest. See, it’s just that damn Israel….
These people are “artists”. Yep, they’re artists all right. BDS artists…both with and without the D.
God I wish everyone of them would just disappear.
