Roald Dahl family sorry for author's anti-Semitic remarks

BBC ^ | Dec 6 2020 | BBC

[Dr. Sivana]

Gee, the attempted shakedown generated a little animosity in me, and I generally really LIKE Jewish people.

You don’t abolish stereotypes by living down to them.

[Little Ray]

They are apologizing because they’re weak. Weak people always try to drag their betters down. Dahl’s heirs will never amount to anything compared to Roald Dahl himself but at least they’re not racist or anti-Semitic...

[RetiredTexasVet]

Must have learned from J Jackson’s rainbow coalition shakedown operations.

[fr_freak]

“Anti-semitism” is generally just another racket. A truly anti-semitic remark would be “all Jews are horrible people” because it lumps all of them together with some vague characteristic simply by virtue of being Jewish. Neither Jewish people, nor Israel, however, should be above criticism.

[mikey_hates_everything]

”It is a shame that the estate has seen fit merely to apologise for Dahl's anti-Semitism rather than to use its substantial means to do anything about it," the spokesperson said.

Perhaps Dahl added a “Sod Off” clause to your types in his Will.

[Daaave]

You Only Twice 1967

Writers: Harold Jack Bloom (additional story material by), Roald Dahl (screenplay by)

[Chewbarkah]

Whoever is asking for cash to make a 30-year-old comment all better demeans the cause of anti-Semitism. Shame on them. Roald Dahl Estate should tell the grifters to move on.

[MarvinStinson]

Roald Dahl’s family just apologized for his Jew hatred. What were the 5 worst things he said?

December 6, 2020 By Thea Glassman
https://forward.com/fast-forward/349771/roald-dahls-family-has-apologized-for-his-jew-hatred-what-were-the-5-worst/

1)“There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it’s a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean, there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason. I mean, if you and I were in a line moving towards what we knew were gas chambers, I’d rather have a go at taking one of the guards with me; but they [the Jews] were always submissive.”

2) “I am certainly anti-Israel, and I have become anti-Semitic.”

3) In book review written by Dahl in the periodical “Literary Review,” he referred to “those powerful American Jewish bankers” and accused the United States Government of being “utterly dominated by the great Jewish financial institutions over there.”

4) The Israeli military activity in Lebanon, he said, “was very much hushed up in the newspapers because they are primarily Jewish-owned … there aren’t any non-Jewish publishers anywhere.”

5) When further discussing the Lebanon War, he wrote: “makes one wonder in the end what sort of people these Israelis are. It is like the good old Hitler and Himmler times all over again.”