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"Death of Klinghoffer": Violence Porn at the Met Opera

(New York Sun) Seth Lipsky - The Jewish leadership in New York has for months been protesting plans to mount this production. The protest Monday, across the street from Lincoln Center, included former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Reps. Peter King and Carolyn Maloney, Ronald Lauder of the World Jewish Congress, and former New York Governor David Paterson. At the end of the day, "The Death of Klinghoffer" is about watching a Jew get shot to death in the back of the head. Leon and Marilyn Klinghoffer's brave daughters, Lisa and Ilsa, were right to denounce the Met's staging of the murder. It's an orgy of violence pornography at the expense of their father and the Jews. It is bizarre to sit in an opera house in the middle of the city with the world's second largest Jewish population and hear its performance greeted with a long ovation while the conductor and cast take their bows.
2014-10-22 00:00:00
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