New York, I love you but you're breaking my heart.
Chesler on why she will be protesting on September 22nd in New York City:
"Although I am a serious opera fan and a strong believer in the First Amendment, I will be among them."
"Here’s why."
"The
libretto presents a false and defamatory narrative of Jews and America;
depicts an entirely untrue, unbalanced, and maliciously immoral history
of the founding of the state of Israel-- especially in Penny Woolcock’s filmed version of the opera which won a prize at
the 2003 Brussels European Film Festival-- an unbalanced narrative
about the fate of refugees in the Middle East; flat-out blames the Jews
for a massacre which Christian Phalangists committed in Lebanon; and
explains and justifies why Arafat’s Palestinian terrorists murdered a
wheelchair bound Jewish-American, Leon Klinghoffer (z”l), viciously, and
in cold blood. "
