Guardian Editor Lauds Rachel Corrie
A play based on the writings of ISM activist Rachel Corrie and written by an editor at the British Guardian newspaper is currently running at a London theater. The play shows the Middle East conflict through Corrie’s eyes, engendering — or reinforcing — hostile British attitudes towards Israel, and spreading the message of a young girl who hadn’t grown out of seeing things as black and white, hero vs. villain.
A Jerusalem Post review of the play states:
My Name Is Rachel Corrie, written by Guardian Weekend magazine editor Katharine Viner (who herself is Jewish) and actor/editor Alan Rickman, is based on Corrie’s diary and e-mail messages …
… not a single reference is made to the traumas suffered throughout the four-and-a-half-year terror campaign against the Israeli population.
Robin Stamler, who has recently completed a PhD at Birckbeck College and is a member of the Academic Friends of Israel group, told The Jerusalem Post that the play is being used by leaders of Britain’s media who are hostile to Israel as a vehicle to delegitimize the country.
“The play openly serves to promote an anti-Israel narrative that is already entrenched in important parts of British society,” said Stamler, adding: “This is a play written by a Guardian editor, heavily promoted by that newspaper, produced by one of the top British actors, and staged at the leading venue for political theater. Pro-Israel Jews won’t find a comfortable home in this section of British society, and it is a section with great influence and power.”
Surely, the Guardian editor understands the differences between her role as writer of an anti-Israeli play and her role at a respected newspaper?
Maybe not. She herself has asserted:
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So the only difference, according to Viner (pictured above), is that the each medium has different limitations. Apparently the goal of a journalist and a playwright is the same — demonizing Israel.
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