42.6 F
New York
Friday, March 29, 2024

No International Audience for Anti-Semitic Opera Just Doesn’t Cut It

Related Articles

-Advertisement-

Must read

Scene from “The Death of Klinghoffer”
Scene from “The Death of Klinghoffer”
The recent statement issued by the Metropolitan Opera concerning their decision to cancel the HD international broadcast of the upcoming controversial opera “The Death of Klinghoffer” is not an adequate response to righteous uproar that this presentation has generated.

This opera is patently anti-Semitic in nature, and as such was not originally presented in Boston subsequent to 9/11. There is no doubt that opera fans and others were totally outraged at the fact that the hijacking PLO terrorists who murdered 69-year old Leon Klinghoffer in cold blood were morphed into characters that evoked sympathy and understanding. All political correctness aside, folks who possess a modicum of morality can surely object vehemently to a character representing a Palestinian Arab murderer singing, “We are soldiers fighting a war; we are not criminals; we are not vandals, we are men of ideals.”

The fact that the worst kind of anti-Semitic stereotypes are promulgated in this egregious opera has not stopped the Met from going full steam ahead in their fall production should give us pause. After all, in a city of tremendous diversity, there will surely be a resounding outcry at Jews being maligned and defamed in the opera as cheats, exploiters, polluters and fat cats, getting rich off of everyone else. Hitler would have been proud that his acolytes have preserved his nefarious message.

And while the propaganda war on Israel continues unabated, there is no doubt that the presentation of this opera will be the wind under their sails. The opera makes the mendacious claim that Israeli Jews destroyed Arab homes in 1948, during the War of Independence.  An Arab chorus sings: “My father’s house was razed, in 1948, When the Israelis passed over the street. . . Israel laid all to waste.”   One of the terrorists claims that his mother was “driven away” by an Israeli “raid.” Nothing could be further from the truth, as anyone who understands history knows that it was Israel who pleaded with the Arabs to stay and live in peace with them.

What is next for the Met? Perhaps in the name of “artistic expression” they will present an operatic rendering of the beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Let us raise our collective voices in outrage and indignation and demand that the Met cancel this opera.

balance of natureDonate

Latest article

- Advertisement -