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Author refuses to allow Hebrew translation of book [Alice Walker]
Jerusalem Post ^ | 6-19-12

Posted on 06/19/2012 5:03:52 AM PDT by SJackson

Citing Israel's "apartheid state," Alice Walker, who wrote Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Color of Purple' reaffirms support of BDS movement.

Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, refused to authorize a Hebrew translation of her prize-winning work, citing what she called Israel’s “apartheid state.”

In a June 9 letter to Yediot Books, Walker said she would not allow the publication of the book into Hebrew because “Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.”

In her letter, posted Sunday by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel on its website, Walker supported the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement and offered her hope that the BDS movement “will have enough of an impact on Israeli civilian society to change the situation.”

It was not clear when Yediot Books, an imprint of the daily Yediot Aharonot newspaper, made the request, or whether Walker could in fact stop translation of the book. At least one version of the book has already appeared in Hebrew translation, in the 1980s.

Walker said Israelis policies were “worse” than the segregation she suffered as an American youth and said South Africans had told her it was worse than Apartheid.

The Color Purple, which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, was adapted into a movie in 1985 directed by Jewish filmmaker Steven Spielberg.

The novel and the film, which was nominated for 11 Oscars, treat racism in the American South in the first part of the 20th century and sexism among blacks.

Walker has intensified her anti-Israel activism in recent years, traveling to the Gaza Strip to advocate on behalf of the Palestinians.


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alicewalker; antisemites; antisemitism; books; gaza; hebrew; israel; jews; judeophobes; judeophobia; palestine; palestinians; pulitzer
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1 posted on 06/19/2012 5:03:57 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson

FRICK HER!!!


2 posted on 06/19/2012 5:05:39 AM PDT by wesagain (The God (Elohim) of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the One True GOD.)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

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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

3 posted on 06/19/2012 5:06:24 AM PDT by SJackson (As a black man, you know, Barack could get shot going to the gas station, M Obama)
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To: SJackson

FRICK HER!!!


4 posted on 06/19/2012 5:10:08 AM PDT by wesagain (The God (Elohim) of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the One True GOD.)
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To: SJackson

Gosh, what a terrible loss for the cultural community of Israel.


5 posted on 06/19/2012 5:12:27 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (I like Obamacare because Granny signed the will and I need the cash)
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To: SJackson

Further proof that there is no ultimate level of stupid.

This woman is stupid enough to work in the White House.


6 posted on 06/19/2012 5:12:31 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: wesagain

Jew haters.


7 posted on 06/19/2012 5:17:48 AM PDT by beef (Who Killed Kennewick Man?)
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To: Da Coyote

Gosh, do you think it is entirely co-incidental that she didn’t come to this decision BEFORE banking all her royalties and share of the profits from Spielberg’s movie?

And, good old Stevie Spielberg, supporting anti-Israelies whenever he can.


8 posted on 06/19/2012 5:20:13 AM PDT by NHResident
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To: SJackson

Did not like the movie. Now I know why.


9 posted on 06/19/2012 5:21:11 AM PDT by Mercat (Necessity is the argument of tyrants. John Milton)
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To: SJackson

who would want to read that hateful bunch of lies anyway


10 posted on 06/19/2012 5:30:00 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: muir_redwoods

Think of all the Israeli high schoolers, now spared from having to read that awful book.


11 posted on 06/19/2012 5:44:27 AM PDT by ThirdMate
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To: SJackson

Because someone can write a book, we should respect their political opinions? That’s like respecting the opinions of pop singers.

Lots and lots of blacks don’t like Jews.


12 posted on 06/19/2012 5:45:58 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Socialism isn't going to work this time, either.)
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To: popdonnelly

“Lots and lots of blacks don’t like Jews”

Yeah, because of all those Jewish plantation owners & slaveholders. Why, more than half the Confederate Army officer corps consisted of Jews. And everyone knows the Ku Klux Klan was actually a secret Zionist cabal. /s


13 posted on 06/19/2012 5:55:42 AM PDT by elcid1970 (Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind. Deus vult!")
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To: SJackson

A win for the Jews...Won’t exposed to this porky lesbian’s nonsense


14 posted on 06/19/2012 6:00:13 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: SJackson

Most Israelis understand English. Globally, people who decide to learn a second language tend to pick learning English.


15 posted on 06/19/2012 6:05:46 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (If I can't be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
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To: ThirdMate

Now if only they could be spared the movie


16 posted on 06/19/2012 6:11:08 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (I like Obamacare because Granny signed the will and I need the cash)
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To: SJackson; Netz; eddiespaghetti; jjotto; redpoll; Clintonfatigued; Fenhalls555; Alouette; ...
Another prominent illustration of black antisemitism in the US, a phenomenon that too many in the Jewish Left and the Left in general would rather keep buried under the table. No matter how she may try to spin it, Alice Walker's refusal to allow her book to be published in Hebrew is an action motivated by antisemitism!

About a decade or so ago, the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League did a study on the prevalence of antisemitic attitudes among Americans, based on answers to a questionnaire the study participants were given. They found that 34% of American blacks harbored antisemitic views, compared to 9% of American whites.

In addition, studies have found that compared to whites, where higher socioeconomic status correlates with a lower prevalence of antisemitism, socioeconomic status among blacks has less of a correlation or even no correlation at all.

17 posted on 06/19/2012 6:25:11 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: SJackson; Netz; eddiespaghetti; jjotto; redpoll; Clintonfatigued; Fenhalls555; Alouette; ...
Another prominent illustration of black antisemitism in the US, a phenomenon that too many in the Jewish Left and the Left in general would rather keep buried under the table. No matter how she may try to spin it, Alice Walker's refusal to allow her book to be published in Hebrew is an action motivated by antisemitism!

About a decade or so ago, the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League did a study on the prevalence of antisemitic attitudes among Americans, based on answers to a questionnaire the study participants were given. They found that 34% of American blacks harbored antisemitic views, compared to 9% of American whites.

In addition, studies have found that compared to whites, where higher socioeconomic status correlates with a lower prevalence of antisemitism, socioeconomic status among blacks has less of a correlation or even no correlation at all.

18 posted on 06/19/2012 6:26:35 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: SJackson

Sorry to say it, but if she ends up like pancake girl, I do not think it is going to sadden me.


19 posted on 06/19/2012 6:29:17 AM PDT by doug from upland (Just in case, it has been reserved: www.TheBitchIsBack2012.com)
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To: SJackson

What is BDS?


20 posted on 06/19/2012 6:45:28 AM PDT by samtheman (If we want Obamugabe out, we must vote him out.)
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