I have said it before and I guess I will have to say it many times more.
This country has gone insane.
Yes. It has. This is not the country in which I grew up.
Well, maybe not completely insane. Speakers at the protest rally included former NY State Governor George Pataki, former US Attorney General Mukasey, some liberal US Congress Representatives (surprise, surprise) like Carolyn Maloney and Eliot Engel, some NYC Council members, Executive Vice President of the NY Board of Rabbis Joseph Potasnik, Father Donovan, etc.
But money talks and the Met is strapped for cash. So they’ll accept the Saudi cash. Interesting that the Met brochure says the donors for this production have asked to remain anonymous. (An investigation is underway by one of the protest groups.)