Alice Walker, author of “The Color Purple,” in the mid-2010s began promoting works by an antisemitic conspiracy theorist and authored an antisemitic poem of her own

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As ‘Color Purple’ adaptation hits theaters, Alice Walker’s antisemitism returns to spotlight
Andrew Lapin
December 23, 2023

…But even as the reputation of “The Color Purple” has soared over the decades, Walker’s own has become more muddled — specifically for her difficult relationship to Judaism and her outright flirtations with antisemitism. Married to a prominent Jewish civil rights lawyer when she was younger, Walker in the mid-2010s began promoting works by an antisemitic conspiracy theorist and authored an antisemitic poem of her own. This combined with her longtime outspoken criticism of Israel has led some in the Jewish community to question her continued stature as a well-regarded figure of American letters and led to her being disinvited from a major book festival just last year. READ MORE

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1 Response to Alice Walker, author of “The Color Purple,” in the mid-2010s began promoting works by an antisemitic conspiracy theorist and authored an antisemitic poem of her own

  1. mosckerr's avatar mosckerr says:

    MSM Yellow Journalism compares to the famous fantasy Santa Claus/JeZeus fraud. This propaganda rhetoric models after the pathetic propaganda made by the post ’48 Arab defeat, that Zionist, following the 1880s Russian pogroms, that they stole the land of Palestinian away from the “red man” original Palestinian inhabitants. Palestine 1922 to 1948 R.I.P. What a farce. The Gosepels/new testament, in point of fact, it mirrors, the forgery of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, written in the late 1890s by the Czar’s Secret Police.

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