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.”
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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.
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."
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.
Every knee shall bend, every tongue proclaim that Jesus Christ is Lord.
Even the damned in Hell.
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.
And yet the Torah does not abolish slavery, but regulates it.
I don't think that Alice Walker lives in Pennsylvania.
Alice Walker is the price of your racial guilt, America.
IMHO, he has a terminal case of Stockholm Syndrome..
For making a film almost thirty years ago?
“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.
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.
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.
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.
It didn’t win any Oscars!
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.
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.
If not for the Spielberg movie nobody would know or care who Alice Walker is and what she has to say about anything.
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