Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

New Alice Walker Book Sinks to 'New Lows' on Anti-Semitism
inn ^ | 6/19/13 | Rina Tzvi

Posted on 06/19/2013 10:12:04 AM PDT by Nachum

American writer Alice Walker, who has long made clear her antipathy toward the state of Israel, “has taken her extreme and hostile views to a shocking new level” in her latest book of meditations on life and her personal activism, according to a review of the book by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

Walker’s “The Cushion in the Road” devotes 80 pages to fervently anti-Jewish ideas, explicit comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany.

The 12 essays of the section, titled “On Palestine,” which make up a quarter of the book, are rife with comparisons of Israelis to Nazis, denigrations of Judaism and Jews, and statements suggesting that Israel should cease to exist as a Jewish state. Walker’s book also attempts to justify terrorism against Israeli civilians, claiming that the “oppressed” Palestinians should not be blamed for carrying out suicide bombings.

“Alice Walker has sunk to new lows with essays that remove the gloss of her anti-Israel activism to reveal someone who is unabashedly infected with anti-Semitism,” said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director.

“She has taken her extreme and hostile views to a shocking new level, revealing the depth of her hatred of Jews and Israel to a degree that we have not witnessed before. Her descriptions of the conflict are so grossly inaccurate and biased that it seems Walker wants the uninformed reader to come away sharing her hate-filled conclusions that Israel is committing the greatest atrocity in the history of the world.”

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abefoxman; alice; alicewalker; antisemitism; castrosympathizer; walker
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-40 last
To: Redleg Duke

The helping of oppressed people and, in particular, the slavery issue is concern very near to Jewish peoples’ hearts.

My people were slaves and very much oppressed until 60ish years ago, most everywhere. (Now we are just hated.)

Hence, the early equal-rights stuff during the Jim Crow era is something that was right in our wheelhouse.

Now? Who knows.


21 posted on 06/20/2013 12:19:50 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: Nachum; Eleutheria5; MarkL; ml/nj; ExTexasRedhead; Blennos; ncfool; OddLane; Netz; andy58-in-nh; ...
“Alice Walker has sunk to new lows with essays that remove the gloss of her anti-Israel activism to reveal someone who is unabashedly infected with anti-Semitism,” said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director.

You really have to be a slimeball to be a black celebrity, especially a woman, and make Foxman's anti-Semite list!

Apparently, Foxman just woke up as to what Walker was up to; previously he had merely classified her as "an anti-Israel activist."

22 posted on 06/20/2013 5:34:17 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Nachum

Alice Walker is a communist sympathizer, esp. of Castro. Well documented.

Her anti-semitism is also well documented.

In other words, she’s a perfect Obama supporter.


23 posted on 06/20/2013 5:38:13 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Every knee shall bend, every tongue proclaim that Jesus Christ is Lord.

Even the damned in Hell.


24 posted on 06/20/2013 5:41:18 PM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Jewbacca
NOI influence is my guess. Their “philosophy” has had an effect even on non-members, especially due to the appeal of their black supremacy doctrine.
25 posted on 06/20/2013 7:22:27 PM PDT by Olog-hai
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: Nachum

What’s with the New Press? Commercial New York publishers weren’t far enough to the left for them? They are a nonprofit. Hmmm. I guess the IRS showed them a thing or two.

I’ve been on staff at publishing houses where the staff refused to work on certain books. Also, a printer once refused, but I can’t remember the name of the printer.

Conscience, people. Grow a pair.


26 posted on 06/20/2013 9:01:35 PM PDT by firebrand
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jewbacca
The helping of oppressed people and, in particular, the slavery issue is concern very near to Jewish peoples’ hearts.

And yet the Torah does not abolish slavery, but regulates it.

27 posted on 06/20/2013 9:03:13 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger
She’s gonna be really surprised one day when a Jewish carpenter from Nazareth comes back and he’s really angry.........

I don't think that Alice Walker lives in Pennsylvania.

28 posted on 06/20/2013 9:05:08 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Nachum

Alice Walker is the price of your racial guilt, America.


29 posted on 06/20/2013 9:06:02 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: william clark

IMHO, he has a terminal case of Stockholm Syndrome..


30 posted on 06/21/2013 1:59:51 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: william clark

For making a film almost thirty years ago?


31 posted on 06/21/2013 8:13:10 AM PDT by Borges
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Zionist Conspirator

“And yet the Torah does not abolish slavery, but regulates it.”

Plan B because G-d knows we suck and will do wrong.

Plan A is not to take slaves or to be a slave, and that is all over the Talmud and Tanuch.


32 posted on 06/21/2013 8:18:20 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: Borges

Well, I daresay she’s held such views for a long time and was shrewd enough to keep them under wraps while she was cultivating her celebrity status. If I were Spielberg, I might tend to think I was played, even if it was well in the past. The fact remains that she’s got a higher profile now from which to spew her nonsense, thanks in large part to the success of his film.


33 posted on 06/21/2013 8:20:46 AM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: william clark

She was a Pulitzer Prize winner already. The popularity of her novel is what drew SS to it. That’s not a good film btw which doesn’t get much play today.


34 posted on 06/21/2013 8:25:49 AM PDT by Borges
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: Borges

No doubt she was a know quantity in (liberal) literary circles, but winning a Pulitzer reaches a much smaller audience than an Oscar-winning film by a blockbuster director.


35 posted on 06/21/2013 8:29:12 AM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: william clark

It didn’t win any Oscars!


36 posted on 06/21/2013 8:30:20 AM PDT by Borges
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: Borges

Wow, usually my Oscar memory doesn’t fail me so badly. I guess I’m just remembering the host of nominations. Yes, my face is red.

I still think my point is valid, albeit to a lesser degree, that Walker’s celebrity was exponentially increased by the film. Oscar wins or not, Spielberg was arguably the biggest director on the planet at the time, and that meant significant box office.


37 posted on 06/21/2013 8:40:15 AM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: william clark

Oh the film was very popular. I doubt she spouted any anti-semitic vitriol with him at the time. It’s like blaming Roger Ebert for convincing Oprah to syndicate her talk show.


38 posted on 06/21/2013 9:24:40 AM PDT by Borges
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: Nachum

If not for the Spielberg movie nobody would know or care who Alice Walker is and what she has to say about anything.


39 posted on 06/21/2013 9:27:10 AM PDT by 0.E.O
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jewbacca
Alice Walker was married to a Jewish civil rights lawyers from 1967 to 1976 and has a daughter with him. The daughter is also a writer and has a memoir called, Black, White, and Jewish. You'd think Alice Walker would know better., but apparently not.
40 posted on 06/23/2013 12:40:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-40 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson