Booker Prize-winner Weighs In On The Israeli Theatre Debate

Howard Jacobson hits back at those who asked London’s Globe to withdraw an invitation to an Israeli theatre company. “If there is one justification for art… it is that it proceeds from, and addresses, our unaligned humanity. Whoever would go to art with a mind made up on any subject misses the point of what art is for. So to censor it in the name of political or religious conviction… is to tear out its very heart.”