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Related: About this forumAlice Walker’s bigotry
By ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ 06/21/2012 21:41
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, has resorted to bigotry and censorship against Hebrew-speaking readers of her writings.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, who has a long history of supporting terrorism against Israel, has now resorted to bigotry and censorship against Hebrew-speaking readers of her writings. She has refused to allow The Color Purple to be translated into Hebrew.
This is the moral and legal equivalent of neo-Nazi author David Duke disallowing his books to be sold to Black and Jewish readers.
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Walker participated in unlawful efforts to break Israels entirely lawful military blockade of the Gaza Strip a blockade designed to prevent Hamas and other terrorist groups from bringing to Gaza weapons that are aimed at Israeli civilians.
In doing so, she has provided material support for terrorism, in violation of the law of the United States and several other countries.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=274763
PDJane
(10,103 posts)I don't feel that Alice Walker is doing anything bad and awful.
shira
(30,109 posts)Palestinians suffer under apartheid conditions in Lebanon.
Women, gays, and christians are persecuted in both Gaza and the W.Bank.
Alice Walker only cares if "hebrew" speaking people can be blamed, whether for real or imaginary offenses.
PDJane
(10,103 posts)Israel is an occupying force. The Palestinians and Lebanon have been living under an illegal occupying force for a long, long time.
The longer the occupation goes on, the crueller it gets.
Alice Walker is sane, which I'm not sure that the zionists in Israel and abroad are.
Shaktimaan
(5,397 posts)Who is presently occupying Lebanon?
Are you counting Hezbollah as occupiers or something?
What is illegal about it?
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)make me
That is all.
OutNow
(868 posts)What kind of person is Alice Walker? She's a great writer, but that doesn't really define her as a person. I'm happy to say that I met Alice Walker in Managua Nicaragua back in the 1980's when progressives from all over the world were visiting the country to show our support for the revolution and our strident opposition to the Contras who were receiving illegal support from the Reagan administration. She was/is a progressive that actually puts her views into action. Does that make her a supporter of terrorism? Nope - it makes her a hero.
shira
(30,109 posts)From her flotilla days...
Turkey is now investigating IHH for funding al-Qaeda. IHH already funds Hamas (Jew haters extraordinaire, holocaust denying, Protocols of Zion believing terrorists who will never recognize Israel).
Alice Walker hasn't once condemned Hamas rocket attacks or advocated for Hamas' Israeli victims. Must be something to do with the "hebrew" language she's boycotting.
Walker reminds me of Vanessa Redgrave. Remember her support of the PLO back in the 70's when all the PLO was about was the destruction of Israel and killing of Jews? Peas in a pod.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)that crowd appears pretty White or Arab to me, you realize she's Black right?
shira
(30,109 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)actually I thought it was just an excuse to post it, you seem to luv it so, twice in one week
Alamuti Lotus
(3,093 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Also a bit muddled - why would black and Jewish people want to buy David Duke's books?
Alamuti Lotus
(3,093 posts)But that just added to the general "WTF?!" nature of my response to The Dersh-Man's (*) latest eruption of bile. Not really surprised to see it faithfully put out here, complete with energetic defense from certain sources.
(*)--and if anybody here gets that reference and remembers that guy, you might need to take a long look in the mirror and have a long conversation with yourself, because something has gone very, very wrong.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)okay I Googled it really I did
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)wonder if he'd do it pro-bono
Dick Dastardly
(937 posts)Other than that there are probably very few other reasons and none that I can think of offhand.
LeftishBrit
(41,212 posts)I think that Alice Walker is wrong, but this is a character assassination that obscures the real points.
'This is the moral and legal equivalent of neo-Nazi author David Duke disallowing his books to be sold to Black and Jewish readers.'
Why would any Black or Jewish readers WANT to give any money to the vile David Duke by buying his vile books?
shira
(30,109 posts)It just so happens Walker's views on I/P are extremely similar to Duke's. Pro-Hamas agenda, sanctimonious WRT Palestinian rights, merciless WRT Jewish rights.
One is a bigot par excellence, the other is also a bigot.
shira
(30,109 posts)(((Israeli))) settlers are the [Ku Klux] Klan (Alice Walker, during interview with Jesse Rosenfeld.)
I think Israel is the greatest terrorist in that part of the world. And I think in general, the United States and Israel are great terrorist organizations themselves. (Alice Walker, Foreign Policy, in June, 2011.)
I feel that the Israel that many Jews dreamed of having that one is gone. Thats demolished. I think its time for people to accept that. Because what you have now is something that is so frightening. Israel is as frightening to many of us as Germany used to be. (Alice Walker: Why Im joining the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza, Guardian, June 25, 2011).
The literary foot-stomping which is Alice Walkers recent refusal to permit her book The Colour Purple to be translated into Hebrew bizarre as it is can hardly have come as much of a surprise to anyone familiar with the writers history of anti-Israel activism. Neither does the Guardians decision to showcase extensive sections of Walkers letter of refusal to the would-be publisher exactly come as a shock.
Walker is a long-standing activist in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), and indeed allowed her letter to the Israeli publisher which requested permission to translate the book to be posted on the website of PACBI the Palestinian Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel which leads and sets the tone for the BDS campaign.
PACBI does not aspire to a two-state solution it promotes the return of millions of descendants of Palestinian refugees, thereby rejecting the existence of Israel within any borders....
...PACBI founding member and steering committee member Omar Barghouti believes (mistakenly) that:
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http://cifwatch.com/2012/06/22/antisemitism-with-a-literary-glow-alice-walkers-ugly-caricature-of-israeli-jews/