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Friday, 22 June 2012
And the Rachel Corrie Award For Sand-Pounding Stupidity goes to...
The author Alice Walker has told an Israeli publisher that she will not permit it to release a Hebrew-language translation of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Color Purple," as a protest of Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
In a letter dated June 9 to the publisher Yediot Books, Ms. Walker cited her involvement in a tribunal that convened last fall in South Africa and "determined that Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories." She added, "I grew up under American apartheid and this was far worse."
I didn't read the book, but I did watch the movie. And I don't recall a scene where Celie's friends and family lobbed missiles at anyone. Maybe it was left on the cutting room floor?
To equate the terrorists of Hamas with the sad history of Black Americans is to throw your lot in with the New Black Panthers and vile racist Jew-haters like Charles Barron. Who, ironically for Ms. Walker, was recently endorsed in his congressional election bid by white-supremacist David Duke.
Awkward? Ayup. But SOP for the loony left, where logical consistency and intellectual honesty never manage to get in the way of grievance mongering, and lately, blatant anti-Semitism. Jew-bashing, it's the new black.
UPDATE 23 Jun 2012 11:53:
Linked by Doug Ross and The Daley Gator. Thanks!
UPDATE 23 Jun 2012 15:30:
Now with official Saint Pancake artwork courtesy of The People's Cube!
Posted at 11:09 by Chris Wysocki
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