The Tightrope Walker at the Graveside

A condemnation of the abhorrent position taken by actor Hugh Laurie

There are moments when ideology should fall silent.

The suicide of a gifted woman is one of them.

Dana Eden created the Apple+ critically acclaimed series Tehran. She was not an abstraction.

She was an Israeli artist working inside Israeli sovereignty — a sovereignty born not of romance but of history. Exile. Pogrom. Expulsion. The murder of two-thirds of…