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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

JTA 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 … Continue reading

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“The cultural establishment has spent years” ignoring author Alice Walker’s antisemitism, on display again in the NYT

TABLET MAGAZINE The New York Times Just Published an Unqualified Recommendation for an Insanely Anti-Semitic Book by Yair Rosenberg December 17, 2018 Over the weekend, the New York Times Book Review published a full-length interview with Alice Walker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color … Continue reading

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#BlackLivesMatter bonds with Palestine

WASHINGTON POST The growing solidarity between #BlackLivesMatter and Palestinian activists by Ishaan Tharoor October 15, 2015 The video below, published on YouTube on Wednesday, features dozens of #BlackLivesMatter and Palestinian activists delivering a joint message. “When I see them, I … Continue reading

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Desmond Tutu: Once a hero, now forlorn anti-Israel loser

THE COMMENTATOR by Professor Michael Curtis June 28, 2015 Desmond Tutu was once a hero in the eyes of freedom fighters around the world. But talk about a tragic flaw: he’s now best known for having fallen in with the … Continue reading

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