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...basic facts straight. Israel is a democracy in which every citizen, Jew and Arab, has the right to vote in national and municipal elections. Israeli law guarantees the freedoms that are fundamental to Western-style democracies: religion, speech, press, assembly and petition. And Israel is committed to being a safe haven for persecuted Jews from around the world. In the last year alone, Israel has absorbed over 200,000 Russian Jews and tens of thousands of Ethiopian Jews...
Furst's perfect-pitch re-creation begins with a fatally flawed protagonist: Andre Szara, 40, Pravda reporter in Europe and occasional Soviet spy, whose life goals have been reduced to a desire to outlast Stalin's purges. As the novel opens in 1937, Szara, a Russified Polish Jew, is caught in the midst of a blood feud in the Soviet secret services between his NKVD friends, mostly Jewish intellectuals, and Stalin's Georgian thugs. The fear that dominates Szara's nomadic life is palpable: a typically chilling passage is about his return to Russia aboard a Soviet freighter with...
...secret of much murder and evildoing is to dehumanize the victim, to make him alien, to make him Other, a different species. When we have done that, we have prepared ourselves to kill him, for to kill the Other, to kill a snake, a roach, a pest, a Jew, a scorpion, a black, a centipede, a Palestinian, a hyena, an Iraqi, a wild dog, an Israeli...
...operas in history have been as instantly controversial as The Death of ! Klinghoffer. To begin with, the subject matter is politically incendiary: the brutal 1985 murder of a wheelchair-using American Jew by Palestinian terrorists aboard the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro. Further, the opera is the second collaboration by composer John Adams, librettist Alice Goodman, choreographer Mark Morris and director Peter Sellars -- the people behind Nixon in China. That dazzling 1987 opera left a trail of argument in its wake as it made its way across America and Europe. Surely, Klinghoffer would be even more provocative than its predecessor...
...dogmatists on the left use terms like "self-hating Jew," "Oreo," "banana," "coconut," "racist" and other labels designed to put people in line, to make them conform to established expectations. This damages democracy, and wreaks havoc on the idea of liberal education...