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		<title>It’s Time to Beat the Jew-Haters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2014 04:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rise of elite anti-Semitism -- and how the Jewish community should respond. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Klinghoffer-1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243764" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Klinghoffer-1-450x337.jpg" alt="Klinghoffer-1" width="324" height="243" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Column-One-Its-time-to-beat-the-Jew-haters-379700">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p>The decision by the most prestigious opera house in America to produce an opera that mainstreams Jew-hatred and anti-Jewish terrorism is a great victory for elitist anti-Semitism. In the world of elite anti-Semitism, Jews are told that truth is but a narrative. Jewish history and rights have no more merit – indeed less merit – than the lies of Jew-haters. And if Jews dare to object to the propagation of lies against them, they open themselves to the easy accusation that they seek to stifle free speech.</p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The goal of elitist anti-Semitism is to erode the right of Jews to have and promote Jewish rights and interests. This is done by demonizing those who defend Jewish rights and advance Jewish interests, while elevating and romanticizing the lives and largely false narratives of those who seek to destroy Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Met’s singular contribution to the cause of elitist anti-Semitism is the prestige its production of The Death of Klinghoffer confers on the cause.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Another dam has been breached. Another safe zone has become a no-go zone.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">On the other hand, at the end of the day, as bad as elitist anti-Semitism is, over the past decade or so, American Jews have developed tools to deal with it.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In the weeks that preceded the opera’s opening last Monday night, much – although not all – of the Jewish community in New York was able to unify in opposing it. Politicians and luminaries joined with more than a thousand protesters on opening night to express their revulsion at the opera.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And the Met has already paid a price for its elevation of anti-Semitism to high art.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Far from living up to its reputation as a leader in the arts, on Monday, due to the massive protest against the production, the Met lost its artistic credibility. The crowd that gave the opera a standing ovation didn’t do so because they had just experienced a musical masterpiece. They stood and cheered because they were happy the Met elevated murderous, Jew-hating terrorists, whom they support.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">One of the novel aspects of the opposition to the production was an action taken Monday by the Zionist Organization of America. Hours before the opera began, the ZOA issued a press release demanding that major Jewish donors to the Met, including the Michael Bloomberg LP company, the Annenberg Foundation, the Neubauer Family Foundation and the Toll Brothers Foundation, account for their decision not to revoke their multimillion dollar support for the opera house.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The ZOA’s move is important because as Jews see more and more public support for the denial of Jewish rights and interests, it will become increasingly important to call to account those backing institutions that advance this growing trend toward Jewish disenfranchisement.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The ZOA’s move was important as well because it points us in a useful direction for dealing with a second and increasingly prominent form of anti-Semitism in the US and Canada. That form is violent anti-Semitism.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Increasingly, anti-Semites in the US are adopting brownshirt tactics to violently advance their goal of removing Jews from the public square and intimidating others into boycotting Israel and those who support it.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Take just a few examples in recent weeks. In late September, several hundred anti-Semitic rioters at the Port of Oakland prevented longshoremen from unloading cargo from the Israeli cargo ship Zim Shanghai. According to media reports, there were 50 policemen from the Oakland police force on the scene, but their presence did not stop the rioters or enable the longshoremen to offload the cargo.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">None of the anti-Semites were arrested. Zim Shanghai was forced to leave the port with its cargo and sail on to Los Angeles.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The group that organized the assault on the Zim ship calls itself Block the Boat for Gaza. It operates through its Facebook page where it openly organizes violent assaults on Israeli shipping. Another assault is planned, according to its Facebook page, for October 25.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">A previous assault in August, during Operation Protective Edge, also took place with police presence and nonintervention. The Zim Piraeus was forced as well to pull anchor with its cargo and sail on to Los Angeles.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Block the Boat for Gaza is supported by another group called Arab Resource and Organizing Center.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">On October 8, the Brooklyn Nets played an exhibition game against Maccabi Tel Aviv at the Barclay Center in downtown Brooklyn. The event was a benefit for Friends of the IDF. Twelve IDF soldiers wounded during Operation Protective Edge were guests at the event.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">About a hundred anti-Semitic rioters organized outside the event. They were members of variety of organizations reportedly including Jewish Voices for Peace, Adalah – New York, and the Direct Action for Palestine.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">After the event, a number of the rioters accosted Leonard Petlakh, the director of a local Jewish community center, as he was leaving the arena with his two young sons. According to The Forward, they shouted, “Free Palestine,” and, “Your people are murderers.” And then one of them punched him in the face, breaking his nose.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The assailant was arrested. But strangely, he was not charged with committing a hate crime despite the clear anti-Semitic character of his crime.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">On October 5, hours after the end of Yom Kippur, swastikas were painted on the walls of AEPi Jewish fraternity at Emory University near Atlanta.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Swastikas were also painted at the Yale University campus. In July, mailboxes of AEPi members at University of Oregon were defaced with swastikas.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In August, a Jewish student at Temple University was assaulted by a member of Students for Justice for Palestine.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In a video filmed at the national convention of AEPi and posted on YouTube two weeks ago, members of AEPi from campuses around the US and Canada shared the stories of anti-Semitic assaults they and their friends suffer regularly on their campuses. The attacks described included, among other things, violent assaults.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Gideon Rafal, the president of AEPi at University of Arizona, described how he was assaulted while trying to prevent a group of 20 Jew-hating thugs from forcing their way into his fraternity house.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Rafal said he was struck from behind and lost consciousness.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The injuries he sustained during the assault included a skull fracture, bleeding in the brain, a concussion and a lower back fracture. He says that he was hospitalized for three weeks, spending 10 days in the intensive care unit.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Rafal did not say who the assailants were or what legal measures were taken against them or what organization if any, they were associated with.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Other students described threats against Jewish students manning a table for Birthright Israel programs at Loyola University in Chicago, and the assault of a Jewish female student at University of California at Santa Cruz.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Shane, a student at University of Calgary, described how he, his mother and sister were violently assaulted for counter-protesting at an anti-Israel protest. The group that sponsored the anti-Israel protest and whose members attacked him and his family is an official campus organization.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Shane said he fears for his life as he walks through campus.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In recent years it has become apparent that university campuses have become breeding grounds for anti-Semitism. The incidents described by the Jewish students who attended the AEPi convention indicate that the anti-Israel propaganda taught in the classrooms is increasingly being translated into anti-Jewish violence outside of them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The major American Jewish organizations were incompetent to contend with anti-Israel incitement as it became a major force in university classrooms some 15 years ago. Jewish students found themselves with few communal resources to rely on when they suddenly and unexpectedly found themselves at the front lines of the anti-Semitic battle against Jewish rights.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">New groups like Stand with Us and Hasbara Fellowships were formed to fill the vacuum. CAMERA, ZOA and other major groups have in recent years invested massive efforts into empowering students to stand up to this incitement.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But today, as anti-Semites on and off campus increasingly resort to brownshirt tactics, the American Jewish community again finds itself without the means to contend with a new challenge.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And this brings us back to the ZOA’s naming the names of Jewish philanthropists still supporting the Met.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The organizations involved in intimidating Jews and assaulting Jews on and off campus who support Israel are not interested in dialogue. Groups that organize to prevent the conduct of normal commercial relations between Israel and the US are not concerned with whether or not they are considered mainstream. The goal of these groups is to intimidate and terrorize the American and Canadian publics into silence as they make it impossible for Israel and its supporters to have a place in the public square.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Educational efforts are of little value in contending with thugs. But this doesn’t mean that there is nothing to be done. Groups like Block the Boat for Gaza, Students for Justice in Palestine, Jewish Voices for Peace, Adalah, the Arab Resource and Organizing Center and Direct Action for Palestine need to be investigated.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Where does their money come from? Who are their leaders? What are their ties to terrorist groups? What are their ties to organized labor? What are their ties to politicians? What is their tax status and what do their tax returns say? If members of various groups are intimidating Jewish students then there should be restraining orders against them. Criminal complaints should be filed against them. Their tax-exempt status should be challenged.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Jewish students should be demanding that Students for Justice in Palestine be expelled from their campuses along with other hate groups, like Jewish Voices for Peace. Jewish alumni should be organizing to withhold all donations from universities that permit anti-Semitic groups to operate on campus. And Jewish lawyers should be filing lawsuits against universities and other institutions that enable the operation of anti-Semitic groups on their premises.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">If Jewish students complain that they feel threatened on campus, then lawsuits should filed against the universities for engendering a threatening atmosphere against them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Politicians who support or, when asked, fail to condemn these groups, individuals and their actions as racist and bigoted should be called out for their behavior. Police departments like the Oakland police department that do nothing to stop rioters from preventing the lawful, unfettered operation of a major US port should be subjected to public and legal scrutiny.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The challenge of anti-Semitism in North America is growing and mutating by the day. Jews in America and Canada need to adapt quickly to changing circumstances. Reasonably, American Jews have no interest in aping the hateful tactics of anti-Semites to fight them. But an aggressive campaign of legal, political, social and financial opposition to those who seek to demonize Jews and deny Jews civil rights as Jews as well as those who enable them can go a long way toward making members of these hate groups and their supporters rue the day they decided to go after the Jews.</span></p>
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		<title>Daniel Pearl’s Family Stands Against Anti-Semitism at the Met</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2014 04:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protests kick off against the pro-terrorist opera, "The Death of Klinghoffer."]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/klinghoffer_2151670b.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241480" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/klinghoffer_2151670b-372x350.jpg" alt="klinghoffer_2151670b" width="304" height="286" /></a>Leon Klinghoffer’s daughters Lisa and Ilsa Klinghoffer say that <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/pull-the-plug-on-the-death-of-klinghoffer-permanently/">the play The Death of Klinghoffer,</a> which premiers Monday evening at Lincoln Center, is unacceptable, stating, “We are outraged at the exploitation of our parents and the coldblooded murder of our father as the centerpiece of a production that appears to us to be anti-Semitic.” Countless media outlets, including <em>The New York Daily News</em>, noted that The Death of Klinghoffer has been “reviled as anti-Semitic and horribly sympathetic to the killers.”</p>
<p>Daniel Pearl’s father, in a letter that will be read at the protests Monday outside of Lincoln Center, notes that the Met is wrong to air this play. The letter reads in part as follows:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>In joining you today to protest the New York Metropolitan Opera production of this opera, I echo the silenced voice of my son, Daniel Pearl, and the silenced voices of other victims of terror, including James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and including thousands of men, women and children who were murdered, maimed or left heartbroken by the new menace of our generation, a menace that the Met has decided to accept and orchestrate as just another activity of normative civilized society, just another phenomenon worthy of artistic expression. They tell us that the composer tried to &#8220;understand the hijackers, their motivations, and their grievances.&#8221;</i></p>
<p><i>I submit to you that there has never been a crime in human history lacking grievance and motivation. The 9/11 lunatics had profound motivations, and the murderers of my son, Daniel Pearl, had very compelling &#8220;grievances.” In the past few weeks we have seen with our own eyes that Hamas and ISIS have grievances, too and, they, too, are lining up for operatic productions with the Met.</i></p>
<p><i>Yet civilized society, from the time of our caveman ancestors, has learned to protect itself by codifying right from wrong, separating the holy from the profane, distinguishing that which deserves the sound of orchestras from that which deserves our unconditional revulsion.  The Met has smeared this distinction and thus betrayed their contract with society. I submit to you that choreographing an operatic drama around criminal pathology is not an artistic prerogative, but a blatant betrayal of public trust.</i></p>
<p><i>We do not stage operas for rapists and child molesters, and we do not compose symphonies for penetrating the minds of ISIS executioners. What we are seeing here in New York today is not an artistic expression that challenges the limits of morality, but a moral deformity that challenges the limits of the art. This opera is not about the mentality of deranged terrorists, but about the judgment of our arts directors. The New York Met has squandered humanity&#8217;s greatest treasure — our moral compass, our sense of right and wrong, and, most sadly, our reverence for music as a noble expression of the human spirit. We might be able some day to forgive the Met for de-criminalizing brutal minds, but we will never forgive them for poisoning our music &#8212; for turning our best violins and our iconic concert halls into mega-phones for excusing evil.”</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Meanwhile, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which describes itself as &#8220;the nation&#8217;s premier civil rights/human relations agency,&#8221; has rubber-stamped the Met’s airing of this anti-Semitic opera.  While The Death of Klinghoffer includes libels that Jews get fat from the poor and chea, and has countless anti-Semitic themes, the ADL has cited “artistic freedoms” in approving the Metropolitan Opera&#8217;s decision to feature the anti-Semitic opera.  <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/liberal-adl-wrong-say-death-klinghoffer-ok"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Shame on the ADL – they are wrong.</span></a></p>
<p>On the side of truth and justice: the Klinghoffer family, Daniel Pearl’s family, terror victims, countless Jewish organizations (including the Simon Wiesenthal Center), the former United States Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Former NY Governor George Pataki, numerous other religious organizations and a slew of others oppose the play and will protest outside on Monday. Rabbi Avi Weiss will lead a morning prayer vigil where participants will raise a voice of outrage against this play which celebrates terrorist murders.  They will have a wheelchair to illustrate the plight of Klinghoffer, an American World War II veteran who was killed by terrorists of the Palestine Liberation Front (PFLF).</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://observer.com/author/ronn-torossian/">I live across the street from Lincoln Center</a></span> – it’s despicable and horrible that the Lincoln Center allows the show to go on.  Terrorists kill Americans – and that is not art.</p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2014/06/16/metropolitan-opera-romanticizes-one-nyers-murder/">The Metropolitan Opera is romanticizing murder and terrorism.</a><span style="color: #000000;"> </span></p>
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		<title>Pull the Plug on &#8216;The Death of Klinghoffer&#8217; &#8212; Permanently</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2014 04:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Met admits the controversial "opera" inspires anti-Semitism -- so why is the show going on? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/klinghoffer_2151670b.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234419" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/klinghoffer_2151670b-387x350.jpg" alt="klinghoffer_2151670b" width="264" height="239" /></a>Apparently for the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center, European anti-Semitism is unacceptable, but in America, anti-Semitism is acceptable.  That seems to be </span><span class="zw-portion">today’s </span><span class="zw-portion">message</span><span class="zw-portion" style="color: #222222;"> amidst the Met’s announcement that it has canceled plans for a live transmission of the opera </span><span class="zw-portion" style="font-style: italic; color: #222222;">&#8220;The Death of Klinghoffer&#8221;</span><span class="zw-portion" style="color: #222222;"> in movie theaters “because of concerns that it could fan global anti-Semitism.”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion" style="color: #222222;">D</span><span class="zw-portion" style="color: #222222;">espite widespread controversy and condemnation </span><span class="zw-portion" style="color: #222222;">- the</span><span class="zw-portion" style="color: #222222;"> show planned for </span><span class="zw-portion">October 2014 will go on as planned at Lincoln Center.  </span><span class="zw-portion">A </span><span class="zw-portion">New York Times op-ed article some years ago </span><span class="zw-portion">which </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/09/arts/music-music-s-dangers-and-the-case-for-control.html?pagewanted=3" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">said the show is guilty of </span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;romanticizing terrorists&#8221;</span></a><span class="zw-portion">, op-eds (</span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://nypost.com/2014/06/16/metropolitan-opera-romanticizes-one-nyers-murder/" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">including mine in the NY Post</span></a><span class="zw-portion">), petiti</span><span class="zw-portion">ons, civil rights organizations’ </span><span class="zw-portion">press releases and vows </span><span class="zw-portion">to </span><span class="zw-portion">protests – yet, the </span><span class="zw-portion">the Met won&#8217;t </span><span class="zw-portion" style="font-style: italic;">yet </span><span class="zw-portion">cancel the </span><span class="zw-portion">live NY performances.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">A</span><span class="zw-portion">s an American teenager has been kidnapped by Muslim extremists in Israel this week, do the armchair liberals at Lincoln Center only subscribe to the “global village” when it suits their purposes?</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">In a rather curious statement today, </span><span class="zw-portion" style="color: #222222;">Peter Gelb, the Met&#8217;s general manager, said</span><span class="zw-portion" style="color: #222222;"> he </span><span class="zw-portion" style="color: #222222;">&#8220;become convinced that there is genuine concern in the international Jewish community that the live transmission of &#8216;The Death of Klinghoffer&#8217; would be inappropriate at this time of rising anti-Semitism, particularly in Europe.&#8221;</span><span class="zw-portion" style="color: #222222;"> So, if Gelb viewed anti-Semites a</span><span class="zw-portion" style="color: #222222;">s</span><span class="zw-portion" style="color: #222222;"> more of a danger here than the show would be cancelled here? Is he saying that Jews in Europe are in danger? Or Jews here are not? </span><span class="zw-portion" style="font-style: italic; color: #222222;">Is the Met the gatekeepers of Jewish safety?</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The Metropolitan Opera’s statement about the play notes </span><span class="zw-portion">that this opera “looks for humanity in the terrorists.”  </span><span class="zw-portion">Bluntly, as Morton Klein of the Zionist Organization of America said yesterday, “</span><span class="zw-portion">If one &#8216;humanizes&#8217; killers of gay people, you are anti-gay.  If one “humanizes” killers of blacks, you are anti-black.  If one “humanizes” killers of</span><span class="zw-portion"> Jews, you are anti-Semit</span><span class="zw-portion">ic.”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Humanity cannot be </span><span class="zw-portion">found in terrorist killers.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The daughter</span><span class="zw-portion">s of murdered Leon Klinghoffer in their statement said </span><span class="zw-portion">“The Death of Klinghoffer” perverts the terrorist murder of our father and attempts to romanticize, rationalize, legitimize and explain it. The political approach of the composer and librettist is evident with the opera’s disingenuous and dangerous juxtaposition of the plight of the Palestinian people with the coldblooded, terrorist murder of an innocent disabled American Jew.</span><span class="zw-portion">” They added that this shows “rationalization of terrorism and false moral equivalencies provide no thoughtfulness or insight.”</span><span class="zw-portion"> Are victims’ rights also no longer important?</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">A show which was cancelled for live worldwide showings should also be cancelled in New York.  I</span><span class="zw-portion">f it was not acceptable after September 11</span><span class="zw-portion">th</span><span class="zw-portion">, what now makes it acceptable for Lincoln Center to glorify the murderers of a disabled </span><span class="zw-portion">World War 2 veteran? </span><span class="zw-portion"> </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/arts/music/metropolitan-opera-reverses-itself-on-review-ban.html" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">In 2012, in response to an “outpouring of reaction” of fans that Met officials and the publishers of Opera News had decided to stop reviewing Met shows</span></a><span class="zw-portion">, Gelb said, “I think I made a mistake.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">The Metropolitan Opera only exists with the good will of the public.” </span><span class="zw-portion"> </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">He was right then that he made a mistake – and now again he has and must own up to </span><span class="zw-portion">this mistake </span><span class="zw-portion">and immediately cancel the show.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">A</span><span class="zw-portion">n American boy with New York roots </span><span class="zw-portion">is </span><span class="zw-portion">currently missing in Israel</span><span class="zw-portion"> at the hands of the same terrorists glorified in The Death of </span><span class="zw-portion spell-error">Klinghoffer</span><span class="zw-portion">.  Terror knows no boundaries – and anti-Semitism anywhere in the world is dangerous and despicable.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">New Yorkers of all religions, colors and ethnicities must stand together and say that humanizing killers is unacceptable. </span><span class="zw-portion" style="font-style: italic;">There is no artistic value which can be attributed to celebrating the murder of innocent people.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The plug must be pulled – entirely – on the anti-Semitic “Death of </span><span class="zw-portion spell-error">Klinghoffer</span><span class="zw-portion">.”</span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nicholas Kralev World weather agencies agreed this week to enhance data-gathering significantly and allow independent scrutiny of raw figures used in assessing climate change amid charges by critics that global warming scientific data were skewed. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) made the concession after an outcry over e-mails revealing that researchers in Britain had [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/26/warming-put-to-new-grand-challenge/"></p>
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<p>By Nicholas Kralev</strong></p>
<p>World weather agencies agreed this week to enhance data-gathering significantly and allow independent scrutiny of raw figures used in assessing climate change amid charges by critics that global warming scientific data were skewed.</p>
<p>The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) made the concession after an outcry over e-mails revealing that researchers in Britain had suppressed certain data to bolster claims of global warming. Critics also said some of the manipulated data were included in a 2007 U.N. report on the subject.</p>
<p>Britain&amp;apos;s Met Office formally submitted a proposal that scientists around the world undertake the &#8220;grand challenge&#8221; of measuring land surface temperatures as often as several times a day, and it was approved in principle by about 150 officials at a WMO meeting in Antalya, Turkey.</p>
<p>&#8220;This effort will ensure that the datasets are completely robust and that all methods are transparent,&#8221; the Met Office said, though it added that &#8220;any such analysis does not undermine the existing independent datasets that all reflect a warming trend.&#8221;</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/26/warming-put-to-new-grand-challenge/">Climate change data will now face independent scrutiny &#8211; Washington Times</a>.</p>
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