Is The Merchant of Venice now a tool of the Israel lobby?
Shylock prepares to take his pound of flesh in Habima's Merchant of Venice.That's the intriguing question that Boston's own Ian Thal raises (I think unconsciously) in a post on the new Clyde Fitch Report, in which he details the recent protests in London over a production of The Merchant of Venice (in Hebrew) by Habima, Israel's national theatre, at the ongoing "Globe to Globe Festival." (From the photo above, …