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.
Her loss.
“All those bed sheets could have been a militant black false flag operation. No one can see who’s under the d-mined things”
Well.... Sheriff Bart did kind of blow his cover in “Blazing Saddles”.
Even though boasting of stampeding cattle through the Vatican almost got him into Hedley Lamar’s crime club.
;^)
Yes. We are. Rocket attacks? Infiltrators? Ulpana? Moslem Brotherhood? Piece talks? Obama? Anarchists? NGOs? Hmph.
I WANT ALICE WALKER IN HEBREW! WAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!! Tzeva Argaman! Tzedek Hevrati!
If only DH Salinger had refused, too.
Hey, Alice, you ignorant Nazi slut, there is no such thing as Palestine.
what a sicko
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.