Alice Walker’s acclaimed novel The Color Purple has been adapted as a musical movie, produced by Steven Spielberg. Yet Walker has a long history of antisemitism: “A new ‘Color Purple’ adaptation hits theaters, returning author Alice Walker’s history of antisemitism to spotlight,” by Andrew Lapin, JTA, December 22, 2023: Walker’s troubles with antisemitism would break […]
Alice Walker’s Deep Antipathy to Jews and Israel
Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple has been adapted yet again, as a musical movie, produced by Steven Spielberg. More on Walker can be found here: “A new ‘Color Purple’ adaptation hits theaters, returning author Alice Walker’s history of antisemitism to spotlight,” by Andrew Lapin, JTA, December 22, 2023: “Most Jews who know their own […]
Alice Walker, If You Can Stand Her
Alice Walker’s novel, The Color Purple, which received all kinds of awards when it appeared in 1982, during a period when black female authors were all the rage — think Toni Morrison, think Maya Angelou — has been turned into a movie, a dramatic stage play, a stage musical, and now, it’s been adapted yet again, […]
One Of These Is A Poem (#3 in a series)
#1. To Change The World Enough by Alice Walker To change the world enough you must cease to be afraid of the poor. We experience your fear as the least pardonable of humiliations; in the past it has sent us scurrying off daunted and ashamed into the shadows. Now, the world ending the only […]
Alice Walker Disinvited From Book Festival For Her Antisemitic Remarks
Alice Walker, the author of The Color Purple, has been disinvited from a book festival when the organizers discovered her long history of antisemitic remarks about Jews and Israel, the Jewish state that she often compares to Nazi Germany. A report on the reasons for her being uninvited is here: “California Book Festival Rescinds Invitation to […]