I Am Rachel Corie - another Stinky Lefty Play in NYC

[juliej]

Barf alert! Last night on NY1 (owned by the Clinton News Network) the producer and lead actress of "I am Rachel Corie" were drooling over the late terrorist's last crusade. Corie, as you may recall, was the American activist on the side of the terrorists/Palestinians in Gaza, who got in the way of an Israeli bulldozer and was killed. After the terrorists and leftwing press lionized her, a photo of her burning the American flag was discovered. The play about her life, directed by Alan Rickman, a leftwing Brit actor, played in London and is opening at the Minetta Theater in NYC for a limited run (hopefully very limited). The drooling critic of NY1 compared Rachel, who hated Jews and Israelis in addition to the United States, to Ann Frank and the Jews/Israelis to Nazis. I was nauseated by his critique. He actually used the words "confronting evil" (meaning that Jews are as evil as Nazis). I hope people protest this play and everything that the little communist stood for. The producer pointed out that the British take on this play is different from ours (Not So Great Britain of course, having been poisoned by the anti-Semitism of the BBC). I urge people to phone or write to NY1 to protest the blaterings of their "theater critic".

[BenLurkin]

[freedomlover]

IBTPJ

(In Before the Pancake Jokes)

[Owl_Eagle]

Wanna know something cool?  If you put caterpillar bulldozer into a google image search, this is the first thing that comes up:

 

Owl_Eagle

If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.

[BenLurkin]

[juliej]

I heard Ronald Radosh mention this disgusting play a couple of months ago, and he said that hopefully it will close quickly and be a big flop. However, I suspect that every terrorist sympathizer will show up to give their support. Will Rickman direct a play about an Israeli child blown up at Sbarros? I doubt it very much.

[edpc]

The stunt double for the climactic bulldozer scene.

[Nathan Zachary]

"Corie, as you may recall, was the American activist on the side of the terrorists/Palestinians in Gaza, who go jumped in the way path of an Israeli bulldozer andwas killed commit suicide.

[Wright Wing]

This could have some good audience participation. Audience members can throw pancakes at the stage during the bulldoze scene.I'm in!

[Brett66]

LOL!

[theDentist]

LOL!

[BenLurkin]

[miss marmelstein]

Luckily, this "play" got decidedly mixed reviews. I wonder how the box office is - my husband and I were offered free tickets by someone connected to the British version and we turned it down, telling them exactly why. I think if we just ignore it, it will slip quietly away...

[juliej]

She looks better flattened.

[dirtboy]

"I am Rachel Corie"

I brought a liberal idiot indoctrination education to a bulldozer fight.

With predictable results.

[dirtboy]

You can never be too rich or too thin.

OK, maybe Rachel proved you CAN be too thin.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

The subtitle for this should be "Killdozer II, The Play."

[humblegunner]

[tuffydoodle]

[rabidralph]

[YdontUleaveLibs]

[juliej]

She looks very sullen in that photo.

[West Coast Conservative]

The Forgotten Rachels

By Tom Gross
October 22, 2005

http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/TheForgottenRachels.html

DEAD JEWS AREN’T NEWS

Rachel Thaler, aged 16, was blown up at a pizzeria in an Israeli shopping mall. She died after an 11-day struggle for life following a suicide bomb attack on a crowd of teenagers on 16 February 2002.

Even though Thaler was a British citizen, born in London, where her grandparents still live, her death has never been mentioned in a British newspaper.

Rachel Corrie, on the other hand, an American radical who died in 2003 while acting as a human shield during an Israeli anti-terror operation in Gaza, has been widely featured in the British press. According to the Guardian website, she has been written about or referred to on 57 separate occasions in the Guardian alone, including three articles the Saturday before last.

The cult of Rachel Corrie doesn’t stop there. Last week the play, My Name is Rachel Corrie, reopened at the larger downstairs auditorium at the Royal Court Theatre (a venue which the New York Times recently described as “the most important theatre in Europe”). It previously played to sold-out audiences at the upstairs theatre when it opened in April. (It is very rare to revive a play so quickly.)

On 1 November the “Cantata concert for Rachel Corrie” – co-sponsored by the Arts Council – has its world premiere at the Hackney Empire.

NOT A CAUSE CÉLÈBRE IN BRITAIN

But Rachel Thaler, unlike Rachel Corrie, was Jewish. And unlike Corrie, Jewish victims of Middle East violence have not become a cause célèbre in Britain. This lack of response is all the more disturbing at a time when an increasing number of British Jews feel that there has been a sharp rise in anti-Semitism.

Thaler is by no means the only Jewish Rachel whose violent death has been entirely ignored by the British media. Other victims of the Intifada include Rachel Levy (aged 17, blown up in a grocery store), Rachel Levi (19, shot while waiting for the bus), Rachel Gavish (killed with her husband, son and father while at home celebrating a Passover meal), Rachel Charhi (blown up while sitting in a Tel Aviv cafe, leaving three young children), Rachel Shabo (murdered with her three sons aged 5, 13 and 16 while at home), Rachel Ben Abu (16, blown up outside the entrance of a Netanya shopping mall) and Rachel Kol, 53, who worked at a Jerusalem hospital and was killed with her husband in a Palestinian terrorist attack in July a few days after the London bombs.

Corrie’s death was undoubtedly tragic but, unlike the death of these other Rachels, it was almost certainly an accident. She was killed when she was hit by an Israeli army bulldozer she was trying to stop from demolishing a structure suspected of concealing tunnels used for smuggling weapons.

Unfortunately for those who have sought to portray Corrie as a peaceful protester, photos of her burning a mock American flag and stirring up crowds in Gaza at a pro-Hamas rally were published by the Associated Press and on Yahoo News on 15 February 2003, a month before she died. (Those photos were not used in the British press.)

While Thaler’s parents, after donating their murdered daughter’s organs for transplant surgery, grieved quietly, Corrie’s parents embarked on a major publicity campaign with strong political overtones. They travelled to Ramallah to accept a plaque from Yasser Arafat on behalf of their daughter. They circulated her emails and diary entries to a world media eager to publicise them. They have written op-ed pieces, including a recent one in the Guardian.

“ARMED STRUGGLE” IS A PALESTINIAN “RIGHT”

The International Solidarity Movement (ISM), the group with which Corrie was affiliated, is routinely described as a “peace group” in the media. Few make any mention of the ISM’s meeting with the British suicide bombers Omar Khan Sharif and Asif Muhammad Hanif who, a few days later, blew up Mike’s Place, a Tel Aviv pub, killing three and injuring dozens, including British citizens. Or of the ISM’s sheltering in its office of Shadi Sukiya, a leading member of Islamic Jihad. Or of the fact that in its mission statement the ISM said “armed struggle” is a Palestinian “right”.

According to the “media co-ordinator” of the ISM, Flo Rosovski, “‘Israel’ is an illegal entity that should not exist” – which at any rate clarifies the ISM’s idea of peace.

Indeed, partly because of the efforts of Corrie’s fellow activists in the ISM, the Israeli army was unable to stop the flow of weapons through the tunnels near where she was demonstrating. Those weapons were later used to kill Israeli children in the town of Sderot in southern Israel, and elsewhere.

However, in many hundreds of articles on Corrie published in the last two years, most papers have been careful to omit such details. So have actor Alan Rickman and Guardian journalist Katharine Viner, co-creators of My Name is Rachel Corrie, leaving almost all the critics who reviewed the play completely ignorant about the background to the events with which it deals.

So in April, when reviewers first wrote about the play, they tended to take it completely at face value. “Corrie was murdered after joining a non-violent Palestinian resistance organisation,” wrote Emma Gosnell in the Sunday Telegraph. The Evening Standard, for example, described it as a “true-life tragedy” in which Corrie’s “unselfish goodness shines through”.

Only one critic (Clive Davis in the Times) saw the play for the propaganda it is. At one point Corrie declares, “The vast majority of Palestinians right now, as far as I can tell, are engaging in Gandhian non-violent resistance.” As Davis notes, “Even the late Yasser Arafat might have blushed at that one.”

But ultimately the play, and many of the articles about Corrie that have appeared, are not really about the young American activist who died in such tragic circumstances. They are about promoting a hate-filled and glaringly one-sided view of Israel.

[Brett66]

I'm not so sure they meant this to be funny, it had me LMAO.

[YdontUleaveLibs]

Yeah when all else fails blame Caterpillar, guns, tv, schools(ok maybe they have something there), Bush, Israel, but never ever put the blame at the source. Rachel Corie made a decision to protect terrorists tunnels and decided that her body would be a sheild for them.

[edpc]

How about this?

The Rachel Corrie Memorial Committee of Victoria Invites you to a pancake breakfast at Denny's Restaurant Sunday March 12 , 2006 10 am.

The Public is invited to a memorial pancake breakfast at Denny's Restaurant on Douglas Street near Finlayson, 10 am, Sunday March 12, 2006 to celebrate the life and untimely death of Rachel Corrie, Peace Activist with the International Solidarity Movement.

There will be a reading of selections from Ms. Corrie's letters and diary, followed by a ceremony at Topaz Park, where a stone cairn will be erected in her honour.

Attendees are encouraged to wear their keffiahs, and to dress in black.

[Hegemony Cricket]

"decidedly mixed reviews"

Yeah, I heard the acting for lead role was really two-dimensional...

[Puppage]

[maggief]

[Lizavetta]

I can't get over this picture. Look at the kids on the right - they're laughing at her.

[headsonpikes]

Yellow Iron rules!

[Hemingway's Ghost]

This is a picture of a woman who needs to get aid-lay.

[freedomlover]

Arafat: "What do mean, "picture", that IS Rachel!"

[Little Ray]

Are they going to sell pancakes during the intermission?

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[reagan_fanatic]

[hgro]

Looks like a female that has had a lobotomy.

[juliej]

Thanks - that was the photo that the NY1 "stage critic" neglected to show.

[juliej]

Rachel's family and Arafat - sit "shiva" for Rachel.

[juliej]

"Pancake breakfast?" These lefties really have no sense of irony.

[juliej]

Corie reminds me of Lori Berenson - another idiot lefty - who is doing life in a Peruvian jail. I know parents can't control their kids but that the parents did nothing to stop these two idiots from getting into trouble is really troubling.

[Famishus]

You owe me a keyboard.

[Conan the Librarian]

Alan Rickman....

See, I always knew that Snape was a bad guy.

[Sloth]

I really need to register corriedance.com one of these days...

[MortMan]

I understand the script for this play is pretty thin! ;-P

[juliej]

Katharine Viner was the useful idiot on NY1 with the lead "actress".

[Fresh Wind]

Q: What do you call Batman and Robin after an anti-Israel protest?

A: Flatman and Ribbon.

[Mad Dawgg]

BTW for those of you scoring at home, the score stands at:

Bulldozers - 1
Peace Activists - 0

[juliej]

I think they should serve kool-aide to the audience that is dumb enough to buy a ticket for this dreck!

[juliej]

The other loonie lefty Brit actor I can't stand is Emma Thompson. Redgrave has been nutty for decades but now Thompson is almost as bad.