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.
I’m sure Israel is in a state of mass panic over this!!!
What an ignonrant, disgusting, racist individual! Even if Israel was not, by far, the most chartiable, fair and just society in the Middle East, and was as bad as Walker has been duped into believing, why not publish in Hebrew? Should she “punish” all Hebrew speakers for the crimes she imagines that Isreal has committed? That is racism.
Of course, “The Color Purple” was one of the most disgusting works of “literature” ever published. It is anti-black male, pro-lesbian, and anti-God. It is a blessing to Hebrew readers that they will not be able to read this poorly written filth.
I did not read the book and I didn’t give a crap about the worthless movie.
Lucky Israelis. I wish it weren’t available in English.
I find that movie hard to watch because it stars Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg.
There are some people whom I just don’t like to see in any role. Rosie O’Donnell detracts from A League Of Their Own, in the same way, in my opinion.
Turnabout is fair play. I refuse to read her work in English because she is a disgusting bigot.
The Israelis are lucky here....With less exposure to her alleged poetry.
Someone remind me - why do some black hate Jews?
Is it because even though people were literally holding them down Jews bounched back and prospered? Is it because Jews’ work ethic makes them wealty over time? Is it because they’re white?
What have Jews ever done to blacks?
How do all those Jews who fought for civil rights feel now? (two of them are dead and can only spin). Yet the UJA and UJF continue to send millions into the inner cities to fund these savages who hate them. Idiots.
As a reminder, here’s who produced her movie:
Produced by
Peter Guber .... executive producer
Carole Isenberg .... associate producer (as Carol Isenberg)
Quincy Jones .... producer
Kathleen Kennedy .... producer
Frank Marshall .... producer
Jon Peters .... executive producer
Steven Spielberg .... producer
Oh...and it was directed by Spielberg.
Boycott
Divest
Sanction
treat Israel like South Africa used to be treated
In effect, Rebecca accuses her mother of being a cold, selfish, child-hating feminist, who wanted nothing to do with Rebecca (or, really, with motherhood) while Rebecca was growing up, even less to do with her when Rebecca became pregnant, and then, nothing to do with Rebecca’s son, who is Alice’s only grandchild. According to Rebecca, her mother even cut her out of her will. Rebecca guesses that her “crime” was “daring to question her [mother’s feminist] ideology.”
http://www.salon.com/2008/06/10/walkers_2/
lovely woman/sarc
Anyone who supports the UJA/UJF is a brain dead Jewish leftist. There is no ‘J’ in either organization.
More on Alice Walker the cold mother and lunatic feminist, as told by her daughter
An ode too the odious Alice Walker:
Barbecue, watermelon
Cadillac car
We’re not as dumb
As you think We is!
That is no more prejudicial than her rabid rants!
All those bed sheets could have been a militant black false flag operation. No one can see who’s under the d-mined things,
I wouldn't broadly condemn the Jews who fought for (black) civil rights in up through the early 1960s. Black antisemitism hadn't really been overt then, and there was obvious legally-supported repression of black citizens, particularly in the South, that merited corrective action.
However, it didn't take long after that for black antisemitism to come to the fore. You could possibly say that the inner city riots of the late 1960s, many if not most of which occurred in formerly Jewish neighborhoods with burning and looting of a significant number of Jewish-owned businesses, was when black antisemitism first raised its ugly head. It was followed a few years later by the experimental community control of a NYC school district (Ocean Hill-Brownsville), which led to the firing of (mostly) Jewish teachers, and ultimately a long strike by a majority Jewish teachers' union, characterized by vicious public antisemitic tirades emanating from black "leaders."
As for the Jewish charities supporting black antisemitic causes, it's as much a matter of government control of them as it is their faulty decision making. "Jewish" charities in the US, established originally for the primary purpose of Jews to help fellow Jews, have become "Jewish" in name only. They are largely quasi-government agencies.
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