{"id":66211,"date":"2018-12-21T17:05:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T15:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=66211"},"modified":"2018-12-21T09:05:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T07:05:48","slug":"27-05-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=66211","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times Published Recommendation for an Anti-Semitic Book"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Tablet\"<\/a>The New York Times Just Published an Unqualified Recommendation for an Insanely Anti-Semitic Book<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Yair Rosenberg<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The book, recommended by author Alice Walker, repeatedly cites the \u2018Protocols of the Elders of Zion,\u2019 dubs the Talmud \u2018among the most appallingly racist documents on the planet,\u2019 and says Jews funded the Holocaust and control the KKK<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Over the weekend, the New York Times<\/em> Book Review published<\/strong><\/span><\/a> a full-length interview with Alice Walker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple<\/em>. The very first question: \u201cWhat books are on your nightstand?\u201d Walker replied with four, the second of which was:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the Truth Shall Set You Free,\u201d by David Icke. In Icke\u2019s books there is the whole of existence, on this planet and several others, to think about. A curious person\u2019s dream come true.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This passed without comment from the New York Times<\/em> interviewer, and the publication passed it on to readers without qualification. This is rather remarkable because the book is an unhinged anti-Semitic conspiracy tract written by one of Britain\u2019s most notorious anti-Semites.<\/span><\/p>\n

A former soccer player turned professional hate peddler, Icke is one of the most influential conspiracy theorists in Europe, and certainly in Britain. Today, he has over 777,000 followers on Facebook, and speaks to audiences around the world. Like many conspiracy theorists, Icke claims that a secret conspiracy controls the world. And like many conspiracy theorists, Icke claims that this secret conspiracy happens to be Jewish. In And the Truth Shall Set You Free<\/em>, the word \u201cJewish\u201d appears 241 times, and the name \u201cRothschild\u201d is mentioned 374 times. These references are not compliments. Indeed, the book was so obviously anti-Semitic that Icke\u2019s publisher refused<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to publish it, and he had to print it himself.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the book and elsewhere, Icke draws liberally upon the infamous anti-Semitic pamphlet, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion<\/em>\u2014a Russian forgery about an alleged global Jewish cabal that is widely considered one of the most influential anti-Semitic works in history. Magnanimously, Icke calls the hate tract by a different name. As he writes in the book promoted by Alice Walker:<\/span><\/p>\n

In the very late 1800s, a controversial document came to light called the Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion. I call them the Illuminati Protocols and I quote many extracts from them in The Robots\u2019 Rebellion. Some say they were a forgery made public only to discredit Jews, and I use the term \u2018Illuminati Protocols\u2019 to get away from the Jewish emphasis. If they were a forgery, something that is quite possible, what were they a forgery of, and by whom? The authors of the best-selling book, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, conclude that the original Protocols were indeed authentic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Realizing that this may not convince readers of his good intentions, Icke attempts to head off charges of anti-Semitism by casting himself as a moderate in the reasonable debate over whether a Jewish conspiracy does in fact control the world:<\/span><\/p>\n

I believe that researchers over the years who have blamed the entire conspiracy on the Jewish people as a whole are seriously misguided; similarly, for Jewish organisations to deny that any Jewish person is working for the New World Order conspiracy is equally naive and allowing dogma or worse to blind them to reality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, is Icke anti-Semitic? Well, here are some other things that he says in the book:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022<\/strong> The Talmud is \u201camong the most appallingly racist documents on the planet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022<\/strong> B\u2019nai Brith, the world\u2019s oldest Jewish service organization, was behind the slave trade (an anti-Semitic canard popularized by Louis Farrakhan) and controls the Ku Klux Klan: \u201cB\u2019nai B\u2019rith means \u2018Sons of the Alliance\u2019 (Ed:<\/em> Actually, \u2018Children of the Covenant\u2019) and was established in 1843. Many of its speakers openly supported slavery during the American Civil War and it covertly supports and controls the Ku Klux Klan.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022<\/strong> Racist far-right groups are actually Jewish fronts. \u201cIn Britain,\u201d he writes, \u201cI am told by an extremely reliable source very close to the intelligence organisations that the \u2018far Right\u2019 group, Combat 18, is a front for the sinister Anti-Defamation League, the United States and of the \u2018Israeli\u2019\/Rothschild secret service, Mossad. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has been operating in Britain and Europe since at least 1991 and its role is to brand as anti-Semitic anyone who is getting close to the truth of what is going on. What better way to discredit an investigator than to have a \u2018far Right\u2019 group like Combat 18 to praise them?\u201d (The \u201c18\u201d in \u201cCombat 18\u201d refers to the first and eighth letters of the alphabet: A and H, for Adolf Hitler.)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022<\/strong> Jews are behind anti-Semitic attacks: \u201cIf 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 \u2018incited\u2019 the actions by what they are writing and saying.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022<\/strong> Quotes and seconds the heinous assertion of Gary Allen\u2014<\/a><\/strong><\/span>the John Birch Society spokesman and former George Wallace speechwriter\u2014that Jews bankrolled their own extermination in the Holocaust:<\/span><\/p>\n

The Jewish members of the conspiracy have used an organisation called The Anti-Defamation League as an instrument to try to convince everyone that any mention of the Rothschilds and their allies is an attack on all Jews. In this way they have stifled almost all honest scholarship on international bankers and made the subject taboo within universities. Any individual or book exploring this subject is immediately attacked by hundreds of ADL communities all over the country. The ADL has never let the truth or logic interfere with its highly professional smear jobs \u2026 Actually, nobody has a right to be more angry at the Rothschild clique than their fellow Jews. The Warburgs, part of the Rothschild empire, helped finance Adolf Hitler.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022<\/strong> Equates the anti-Semitic Nazi media of the Third Reich with a company that closed down a publication after it printed Holocaust denial: \u201cWhat is the difference between the controlled anti-Jewish media under Hitler and the way the Japanese magazine, Marco Polo, was closed down by its parent company in 1995 because of a campaign by the global Jewish hierarchy to stop its advertising revenue after it published an article questioning some of the official stories of the Nazi concentration camps?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Calls on schools to teach the controversy about whether the Holocaust really happened: \u201cWhy do we play a part in suppressing alternative information to the official line of the Second World War? How is it right that while this fierce suppression goes on, free copies of the Spielberg film, Schindler\u2019s List, are given to schools to indoctrinate children with the unchallenged version of events? And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

(Icke never does explain how Jews could have funded the Holocaust if the Holocaust didn\u2019t actually happen.)<\/span><\/p>\n

As can be seen from these extracts, and the chapter titles of the work (\u201cMaster Races,\u201d \u201cThe Hidden Hand\u201d), anti-Semitism is not incidental to Icke\u2019s book, it is essential. It is impossible to miss it. (And we have not even touched on Icke\u2019s climate change denial<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, 9\/11 trutherism<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, and anti-vaccination misinformation<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the book that Alice Walker recommended to New York Times<\/em> readers.<\/span><\/p>\n

recommended by: <\/span>Leon Rozenbaum<\/span>
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That a celebrated cultural figure like Walker would promote such a self-evidently unhinged bigot might seem surprising at first glance. But this is only because the cultural establishment has spent years studiously looking away from Walker\u2019s praise of Icke and his work, and her repeated expressions of anti-Semitism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Back in June 2013, Walker wrote an effusive blog post<\/strong><\/span><\/a> showering accolades on Icke and his book Human Race Get off Your Knees<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s an amazing book, HUMAN RACE GET OFF YOUR KNEES,\u201d she enthused, \u201cand reading it was the ultimate reading adventure. I felt it was the first time I was able to observe, and mostly imagine and comprehend, the root of the incredible evil that has engulfed our planet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In May 2013, Walker told<\/a><\/strong><\/span> the BBC\u2019s Desert Island Discs that if she could have only one book, it would be Icke\u2019s Human Race.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In December 2013, Walker offered<\/strong><\/span><\/a> end-of-year thanks to an array of \u201cbeloved humans who\u2019ve stuck their necks out for the collective.\u201d One of them was David Icke, whose Human Race Get off Your Knees <\/em>book also got its own entry.<\/span><\/p>\n

In July 2015, Walker shared<\/strong><\/span><\/a> an interview between David Icke and Alex Jones, his American analogue. The account that posted the video has since been banned from YouTube.<\/span><\/p>\n

In September 2016, Walker promoted a lecture of Icke\u2019s to her readers, writing<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, \u201cI decided to find, among Icke\u2019s numerous videos, one lecture that might offer an introduction that wouldn\u2019t be too scary for folks leery of being nudged in a direction of inquiry that might upset, destroy possibly, their worldview. I think this one might fit the bill.\u201d YouTube has since taken down that lecture.<\/span><\/p>\n

In November 2017, Walker posted<\/strong><\/span><\/a> an explicitly anti-Semitic \u201cpoem\u201d on her blog titled, \u201cIt Is Our (Frightful) Duty to Study the Talmud.\u201d The composition blames all the world\u2019s ills, from Israel to America, on the ancient Aramaic compendium of Jewish law and lore, and checks nearly every anti-Semitic box, from attacking Jews as Christ-killers to claiming that Jews view gentiles as \u201csub-human.\u201d A representative excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n

For the study of Israel, of Gaza, of Palestine,
\nOf the bombed out cities of the Middle East,
\nOf the creeping Palestination
\nOf our police, streets, and prisons
\nIn America,
\nOf war in general,
\nIt is our duty, I believe, to study The Talmud.
\nIt is within this book that,
\nI believe, we will find answers
\nTo some of the questions
\nThat most perplex us.<\/p>\n

Where to start?<\/p>\n

You will find some information,
\nSlanted, unfortunately,
\nBy Googling. For a more in depth study
\nI recommend starting with YouTube. Simply follow the trail of \u201cThe
\nTalmud\u201d as its poison belatedly winds its way
\nInto our collective consciousness.<\/p>\n

Some of what you find will sound
\nToo crazy to be true. Unfortunately those bits are likely
\nTo be true. Some of the more evasive studies
\nWill exhibit unbelievable attempts
\nAt sugar coating extremely disagreeable pills.
\nBut hang in there, checking
\nAnd double checking, listening to everybody,
\nEven the teachers with the twisted pasts
\nThat scare you the most,
\nAnd the taped rants of outraged citizens that sound
\nLike madcap characters on Car Talk
\nExcept they are not laughing
\nBut are righteously outraged.<\/p>\n

Study hard, with an open
\nIf deeply offended mind,
\nUntil you can sift the false
\nFrom the true.<\/p>\n

Is Jesus boiling eternally in hot excrement,
\nFor his \u201ccrime\u201d of throwing the bankers
\nOut of the Temple? For loving, standing with,
\nAnd defending
\nThe poor? Was his mother, Mary,
\nA whore?<\/p>\n

Are Goyim (us) meant to be slaves of Jews, and not only
\nThat, but to enjoy it?
\nAre three year old (and a day) girls eligible for marriage and intercourse?
\nAre young boys fair game for rape?
\nMust even the best of the Goyim (us, again) be killed?
\nPause a moment and think what this could mean
\nOr already has meant
\nIn our own lifetime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anti-Semitic slanders of the Talmud\u2019s contents are almost as old as the Talmud itself, and are one reason why Albert Einstein advocated<\/strong><\/span><\/a> that it be translated into English, \u201cin order to cut the ground from under certain malevolent attacks, of anti-Semitic origin, which borrow countenance from the obscurity and inaccessibility of certain passages in the Talmud.\u201d Clearly, Einstein did not anticipate the likes of YouTube-educated Talmud scholars like Alice Walker.<\/span><\/p>\n

And yet, despite all of this, Walker has never been held accountable by elite cultural critics for repeatedly promoting Icke and anti-Semitism. In fact, this is not even the first time the New York Times<\/em> helped give her a coveted and uncritical platform: in 2015, New York Times<\/em> theater reporter Michael Paulson interviewed<\/a><\/strong><\/span> Walker at the New School to mark the premiere of The Color Purple<\/em> musical revival on Broadway. He did not ask her about anti-Semitism, despite collecting questions in advance on Twitter, several of which raised the issue<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, likely because it would have been too uncomfortable.<\/span><\/p>\n

Normally, this is where I\u2019d say that it was good that the Times<\/em> published Walker\u2019s Icke recommendation because it lets us know who she is. But we have known who she is for many years. It is rather the Times <\/em>and other cultural elites who have opted to ignore this inconvenient fact. Thus, the only thing that is accomplished by uncritically disseminating Walker\u2019s bigoted book bon mots is ensuring that the racism is disseminated to more people.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why has Walker escaped accountability for so long? Perhaps it is due to her Israel politics, which have been used to confuse the issue. Walker is a prominent supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, famously forbidding The Color Purple<\/em> from being translated<\/strong><\/span><\/a> into the language of Hebrew. Because Walker\u2014like Icke\u2014is a strident critic of Israel, her defenders\u2014like Icke\u2019s\u2014have dismissed allegations of anti-Semitism by claiming they are merely an attempt to quash her criticism of the Jewish state.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it should not surprise anyone that the world\u2019s only Jewish state, home to half its Jews, would attract the attention of anti-Semites, who would use the legitimate debate over its conduct to smuggle in their anti-Jewish bile. Anti-Zionism may not be anti-Semitism, but plenty of self-described anti-Zionists are anti-Semites. A progressive left that is serious about anti-Semitism will call it out not only when it comes from a white supremacist and is presented as \u201crace realism,\u201d but when it comes from their own camp<\/a><\/strong><\/span> and is presented in the righteous guise of \u201canti-Zionism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Not publishing anti-Semitic book recommendations unchallenged in the New York Times<\/em> would be a good place to start.<\/span><\/p>\n

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