Alice Walker Recommends Anti-Semitic Book in New York Times Book Review Q&A
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This past week, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker endorsed a book that has repeatedly been called anti-Semitic.
During a Q&A with The New York Times Book Review, the The Color Purple author expressed her admiration for one of the notorious British conspiracy theorist David Icke’s most controversial books.
When the Times asked the critically acclaimed author what books she keeps on her nightstand, Walker responded with four titles, including: “And the Truth Shall Set You Free by David Icke. In Icke’s books there is the whole of existence, on this planet and several others, to think about. A curious person’s dream come true.”
The book was so obviously problematic that Icke’s publisher Gateway refused to print it, and Icke had to publish it himself. A former football player and sports broadcaster, Icke has fallen out of the public’s good graces since announcing that he is the “Son of the Godhead” and embracing a theory about an interdimensional race of reptilian beings that have hijacked Earth.
“In And the Truth Shall Set You Free, the word “Jewish” appears 241 times,” shares Yair Rosenberg at Tablet, an American-Jewish online magazine. “These references are not compliments.”
Among other things, Rosenberg highlights Icke’s belief that the Holocaust might not have actually happened, and if it did, it was funded by Jews. In the very book that Walker recommends, Icke writes:
If you really want to discredit someone, you arrange for anti-Jewish or anti-whatever events such as the smashing of graves, assaults on people, even a terrorist bomb in the extreme. You then point the finger at your target person or group. You say they are either directly responsible or ‘incited’ the actions by what they are writing and saying.
I strongly believe that a small Jewish clique which has contempt for the mass of Jewish people worked with non-Jews to create the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the Second World War … They then dominated the Versailles Peace Conference and created the circumstances which made the Second World War inevitable. They financed Hitler to power in 1933 and made the funds available for his rearmament.