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(FinalCall.com) - Alice Walker, author and activist, joins a growing group of artists and entertainers who are boycotting Israel for its treatment of Palestinians in what many are calling apartheid practices.
Ms. Walker has refused to allow Yediot Books to publish in Hebrew her Pulitzer Prize winning novel turned movie turned Broadway Musical.
“Thank you so much for wishing to publish my novel THE COLOR PURPLE. It isn’t possible for me to permit this at this time for the following reason: As you may know, last Fall in South Africa the Russell Tribunal on Palestine met and determined that Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories,” she wrote.
“The testimony we heard, both from Israelis and Palestinians (I was a jurist) was devastating. I grew up under American apartheid and this was far worse. Indeed, many South Africans who attended, including Desmond Tutu, felt the Israeli version of these crimes is worse even than what they suffered under the white supremacist regimes that dominated South Africa for so long.”
She added, “It is my hope that the non-violent BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement, of which I am part, will have enough of an impact on Israeli civilian society to change the situation.”
In 2005, Palestinian civil society issued a call for a campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it complies with international law and Palestinian rights.
The Anti-Defamation League’s National Director Abraham Foxman responded to Ms. Walker with this statement:
“It is more out of sadness than anger that we react to the news of Alice Walker’s decision not to publish her classic novel, “The Color Purple,” in Hebrew. It is sad that people who inspire to fight bigotry and prejudice continue to have a biased and bigoted side.”
“For some time Walker has been blinded by her anti-Israel animus. Unfortunately, this willful ignorance and bias against Israel has led her to exercise poor judgment in her publishing endeavors.”
While he may feel that Ms. Walker is blinded, many more are opening their eyes to the suffering of the Palestinian people.
“Paul Robeson said that an artist must stand for slavery or freedom. Some artists are for slavery and some are for freedom,” poet and artist Luci Murphy told The Final Call.
“I’m a member of Artists Against Apartheid. We encourage artists not to perform in Israel and to support the Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) group. We’re constantly reaching out to artists to get them to resist performing in Israel.”
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HAHA! The Negro is one peculiar specimen. Always trying to instigate sh*it in the order of things. Do these few American Negro "artists" even think in the greater scheme of things their boycott has any significant value to an Israeli? LMAO! As if Israelis don't have their own home grown artists and need to be entertained by Negroes? SMDH.
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^Israel has "home-grown" artists? Comparing an Israeli Jew artist to a African American artist is akin to comparing a Dolphin to a blowfish. Jews have no talents except in deceit, lying, and stealing. No talented Madonna is a good as a Jew artist gets, meaning; No good at all with zero crossover appeal. The sole reason that black artist would even cover a hack like Bob Dylan is because they know that whites & Jews will purchase the song.
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Not mention that racist demonstrations were held against African refugees recently with quasi-Nazi slogans on placards.
Israel has also been deporting South Sudanese economic refugees from Israel in the aftermath of their's and the U.S.'s excision of that already failed state from North Sudan. The South Sudanese were all given free Star of David flags to fly during "independence" ceremonies.
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quote:For some time Walker has been blinded by her anti-Israel animus.
The ultimate Zionist defense mechanism. You can't ever defend atrocities which are indefensible, and you can't exactly deny them either, since they're out in the open, so, the next best thing, is to simply attempt to take away the credibility of people who address their governments oppression, and turn them into bigots.
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The JEWISH invention and propagation of the following using their pervasive media outlets; Anti-Semite, Hater, to defend RAP), Reverse Racism, etc. They know how to use these "programming" techniques because they assisted Hitler in developing them. I'm not sure if Ashkenazi Jews are Nazis, or just suffering from symptoms of Stockholm, whereas they identify and imitate their oppressors, Nazis and Zionists. For Whatever reason, they ARE definitely today's (and perhaps, yesterday's) Nazis.
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^Note to Alice: In a perfect world, Negroes would be "Required" to "learn" history - as opposed to simply being "Told" history by Albinos. In that way, Negroes would not always come off looking so totally clueless.
Case in point:
THESE PEOPLE:
. ARE DOING TO THESE PEOPLE,
"EXACTLY" WHAT THESE PEOPLE;
. DID TO THESE PEOPLE:
(Christian Palestinians)
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I THINK IT WOULD BE BEST IF NIGGERS MINDED THEIR OWN BUSINESS.
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^The South Africans are so clueless, that I think they should hire a PR company to tell them what their foreign policy should be. Come to think of it, they should hire a management company to run the country for them too. Oh hell, fuch it - call the Afrikaners back.
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The beginning of he end for you was when you decided to convince people in your fake Clyde Winters name, that Neanderthal originated and existed in Africa. That is when the house of cards became exposed for all to see you filthy monkey. And rather than try to deflect, ignore and change the subject you doubled down with pictures and fallaceous writings to try and convince people that Neanderthal originated and lived in Africa
And thats when this site became a joke that nobody could deny any longer
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