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Large Crowd Protests NYC Terrorism Opera

You know an opera is controversial when the protesters outside start comparing the opera house to a Nazi death camp.

That at least was the sentiment expressed by hundreds of protesters gathered across the street from Lincoln Center Monday night to express the opposition to a performance of The Death of Klinghoffer by the Metropolitan Opera on Manhattan’s west side.

“This might not be Auschwitz. It is Lincoln Center,” said Ben Brafman, a high profile defense attorney, citing his grandparents who were murdered in the Holocaust.

Read entire article at The Daily Beast