Yet they migrated to the supposedly "racist" west. They flee their sh*thole countries to western countries and trash it as "racist" and wanting to turn us into the sh*thole places they left. The muslims are the world's biggest colonialists and imperialists in history.
“These signatories state that Israel has "occupied" another peoples' land, has"displaced," and "ethnically cleansed" those people and, in so doing, presides over an "apartheid" nation state.”
Why would they sign such a screed?
I think it’s because the alternative is too frightening and personally destabilizing.
If you acknowledge that Israel is not “occupied,” and that Israel is actually the quintessential example of de-colonization, then you’ll find yourself sucked into the vortex of human history. Soon, you’ll be wrestling with… real colonial projects like the American one circa 1774… the European Enlightenment… the Roman Empire… the Babylonian exile… and back you go until the dawn of Biblical time. You’ll get pulled into what the haters might call “Jew history” and all its questions, which is a time and place many people don’t want to go. So they choose some chronological baseline — 1967 or 1948 or 1917 or ___ — that short-circuits any serious engagement with the difficult subject at hand. The trouble truly begins with the Balfour Declaration…
These literary mandarins want their own stories to be the center of attention, not some ancient Jewish (or Christian) narrative. And so they sign that letter.
So maybe it’s not hatred or anti-Semitism. It’s simply the preservation of a self that’s petrified of looking in a mirror.
Ezra Pound called poets "the antennae of the human race." He meant that the poets were super-sensitized to their surroundings and were in a possession of unique knowledge and a larger truth. His imagery may be appropriate, but not in the way he intended. There is one antenna that broadcasts, there are a multitude that receive that broadcast and propagate it. This list of writers all have antennae, tuned to receive a single message that is as woke as it is demanding of total allegiance. The creative mind has been subsumed by a lock-step Jew hatred, now called anti-Zionism. DEI literature is indeed a sad phenomenon, as @Joseph Kaplan commented earlier, but it is far sadder a thing for those whose signatures appear on that list.
Sad
Not all writers have groupthink. https://www.thefp.com/p/sally-rooneys-literary-mob-groupthink-israel-hebrew-translations-boycott
What is it about the artistic world and celebrities which makes them so evil? They instinctively defend the side of evil every time.
Yet they migrated to the supposedly "racist" west. They flee their sh*thole countries to western countries and trash it as "racist" and wanting to turn us into the sh*thole places they left. The muslims are the world's biggest colonialists and imperialists in history.
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"A number live in the UK, many more bear Arab and Muslim names, and were born in the global South".
It goes to show that just because one is a writer it doesn't mean one is intelligent.
I can recognize a brown shirt when I see one. They may be celebrated authors but they’re book burning brown shirts in a different color
“These signatories state that Israel has "occupied" another peoples' land, has"displaced," and "ethnically cleansed" those people and, in so doing, presides over an "apartheid" nation state.”
Why would they sign such a screed?
I think it’s because the alternative is too frightening and personally destabilizing.
If you acknowledge that Israel is not “occupied,” and that Israel is actually the quintessential example of de-colonization, then you’ll find yourself sucked into the vortex of human history. Soon, you’ll be wrestling with… real colonial projects like the American one circa 1774… the European Enlightenment… the Roman Empire… the Babylonian exile… and back you go until the dawn of Biblical time. You’ll get pulled into what the haters might call “Jew history” and all its questions, which is a time and place many people don’t want to go. So they choose some chronological baseline — 1967 or 1948 or 1917 or ___ — that short-circuits any serious engagement with the difficult subject at hand. The trouble truly begins with the Balfour Declaration…
These literary mandarins want their own stories to be the center of attention, not some ancient Jewish (or Christian) narrative. And so they sign that letter.
So maybe it’s not hatred or anti-Semitism. It’s simply the preservation of a self that’s petrified of looking in a mirror.
Ezra Pound called poets "the antennae of the human race." He meant that the poets were super-sensitized to their surroundings and were in a possession of unique knowledge and a larger truth. His imagery may be appropriate, but not in the way he intended. There is one antenna that broadcasts, there are a multitude that receive that broadcast and propagate it. This list of writers all have antennae, tuned to receive a single message that is as woke as it is demanding of total allegiance. The creative mind has been subsumed by a lock-step Jew hatred, now called anti-Zionism. DEI literature is indeed a sad phenomenon, as @Joseph Kaplan commented earlier, but it is far sadder a thing for those whose signatures appear on that list.
When anything goes woke let it go broke
Full list (scroll to the end). Lots of Arab/Muslim names but some Jews too. Two I recognize: Judith Butler and Naomi Klein.
https://lithub.com/hundreds-of-authors-pledge-to-boycott-israeli-cultural-institutions/