Gilead Ini, of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, responds to the acclaim heaped on the West End transfer of My Name Is Rachel Corrie:
Corrie was an idealist; but as fate had it, her idealism ended up channeled through the radical International Solidarity Movement, an organization that not only puts at risk the lives of Israeli civilians but also the lives of its members...
Via The Playgoer, who also links to more reviews. I haven't been back to see the play, as there's no way I'd enjoy it a second time around. I am puzzled, though, at the lack of discussion on right-wing blogs about the troubled New York production Are people genuinely not interested in the censorship allegations, or have they used up all their outrage on the Cartoon Wars? Left-wing sites, intent on turning Corrie into a latter-day Anne Frank, have made almost all the running, as far as I can see.
PS: It isn't quite all one-way traffic on the culture front. Tom Gross [scroll down] notes that enfant terrible Damien Hirst is donating a collection of pieces to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
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