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...such an obvious call for killing was not cause enough to cancel Paulin’s lecture, he also published a poem in London’s Observer newspaper calling the Israeli military “the Zionist SS.” To say such a comparison is offensive does not do it justice; ghastly, repulsive and sickening are more appropriate descriptions of the moral bankruptcy of anyone who equates the Israeli Defense Force to an organization that killed six million Jews...
...Times as “Terrific stuff, stunning from a teenage writer.” Jarcho slides into the director’s chair as well for her latest production, The Highwayman, which will open today in the Adams Kronauer Space. The Highwayman is inspired by the Alfred Noyes poem of the same name published in 1907. (Jarcho notes that her play is inspired by, not adapted from, the poem, as she has made no move to use the poem legally...
Jarcho discovered the poem “The Highwayman” through her grandmother, who had won an award as a girl in Puerto Rico for reciting the text. Deciding that it would work well as a theater piece, Jarcho set to work. “I don’t consider the play to be a version of the story. It’s much more a response than an attempt to render it,” the playwright explains. The poem focuses on Bess, a beautiful girl who tries to save the life of her beloved highwayman...
...controversy that led to the event’s cancellation stems from the extreme pro-Palestinian views that Paulin has expressed in interviews and one poem...
...poem “Killed in the Crossfire,” he describes a Palestinian boy being gunned down by the Israeli military, which he calls the “Zionist...