TIL that his museum says that "Roald Dahl’s racism is undeniable and indelible"
TIL that his museum says that "Roald Dahl’s racism is undeniable and indelible"
This is the first I've heard of it, but here's one of his infamous quotes:
"There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it’s a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews.
I mean, there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.”
His other quotes tend to be condemnation about specifically Israeli zionism and barbaric murder, but i don't have context as to whether he's referring to palestine or not. Some people might have more sympathy for these statements these days, but a lot of his other quotes have to do with Jews controlling money and media, less defensible prejudice.
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He doesn't need to be specifically referring Gaza when speaking about the large scale land theft and genocide of the Palestinian people perpetrated by the state of Israel. The region of Palestine was stolen, not just area that is Gaza.
Israel was created largely because powerful people in Europe wanted the Jewish people out of Europe. Its very foundations are antisemitic. These notions of a Jewish state in Palestine started to have widespread antisemitic support before WWII and immediately after WWI.
Dahl may have been the type of bigot to be antisemitic and against Zionism. They aren't directly linked hand in hand.
"He doesn't need to be specifically referring Gaza when speaking about the large scale land theft and genocide of the Palestinian people perpetrated by the state of Israel."
I doubt he was.
"Dahl may have been the type of bigot to be antisemitic and against Zionism. They aren't directly linked hand in hand."
Yes, those views are precisely his stated prejudices in the above quotes.
He doesn't seem to have linked those two instances directly or causally, each is a skewed reasoming for why he doesn't like jews in general, within or without Israel.
Yeah I wrote that before you edited your post, you mentioned Gaza. All good in the hood my dude!
Gooot it, no sweat.
Didn't want anyone else getting confused over gaza/Palestine, or me and Roald Dahl, haha.
You mean the land of Judea, where Jews originated from, and being such a targeted and closed society for the last 2000 years since Roman expulsion, have wished to return, l'shana habah byirushalaim is what we say every year on passover, it's always been the desire of the Jewish people to return to Judea, you know, before it was Roman "Palestine. We've got the worlds oldest land deed, our impramatur in the genes we carry in our blood, our DNA says we are from the Levant, that Arabs are from Arabia, that Arabs are the usurping colonists
Doesn't matter to the Jew haters, they won't hear of it, but we are home now, and are gonna fight with every ounce of strength we have to keep OUR homeland
All for Jewish folks living with the folks that live there. Indeed the Jewish people never left. A state is not required for this. Genociding a people and stealing their homes, starving them, is not peaceful coexistence. The eugenics aspect of your argument is totally gross and hard to gloss over. DNA purity is a buck wild bigoted argument.
How do you square that up with the horrific persecution of the peoples who have lived in that land for the intermediary 2000 years?
So all the Jews in the US are gonna give their land back to the natives, right?
GTFO here with this dumb shit
A little blood and land...where have we heard that before? You're just a plain old fascist.