Guess The Antisemite
Do you know who this was?
..he described the “horror and bestiality of the Lebanon War” in a book review for the Literary Review, saying it “makes one wonder in the end what sort of people these Israelis are. It is like the good old Hitler and Himmler times all over again.”
He accused the US of being “utterly dominated by the great Jewish financial institutions” and asked the rhetorical question: “must Israel, like Germany, be brought to her knees before she learns how to behave in this world?”
Still more extreme views came to light in later interviews with the New Statesman in 1983 and the Independent in 1990.
In the New Statesman he said: “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.
“I mean, if you and I were in a line moving towards what we knew were gas chambers, I’d rather have a go at taking one of the guards with me; but they [the Jews] were always submissive.”
Eight months before his death, he admitted to the Independent that he considered himself to be an antisemite. “I’m certainly anti-Israel and I’ve become antisemitic inasmuch as that you get a Jewish person in another country like England strongly supporting Zionism.”
The answer is….
Author Roald Dahl
What a wonka.
About the Author
An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.Filed Under: Aussie Dave
jews are submissive. yet we treat non jews poorly. isnt that kind of opposites?
Truly a Tale of the Unexpected!
Dave do you have a link to the article in The New Statesman?
I intend to bring this to the attention of the Leader of Cardiff City Council. Dahl of Norwegian parents was born in Cardiff and one of the main squares in Cardiff Bay is named in his honour ‘Roald Dahl Plass’ I think it would be worthwhile bringing to her attention, Councillor Heather Joyce, that one of Cardiff’s main squares is named after a raving anti-semite.
Councillor Joyce’s e-mail address is;
HJoyce@cardiff.gov.[email protected] for anyone else who also wants to contact her.
No, I could not find the link sorry.
i have a little time so i also had a look but had no luck.
http://www.newstatesman.com/search/google/roald%20dahl?query=roald%20dahl&cx=014587529549946006773%3Aq0ke2unon2y&cof=FORID%3A11&sitesearch=
Typical Norwegian
I wonder if there’s anything to the notion that authors who write engaging, wonderful children’s literature are more than a little cranky in their personal lives. That would describe both Roald Dahl and Maurice Sendak, author of “Where The Wild Things Are.” I did cry at the end of “Charlotte’s Web” so maybe they get their jollies that way, too.
I never could read Dahl. I found his nastiness came through in his writing. I was not at all surprised when i discovered (more than 20 years ago) that he was an antisemite.
I had read about Dahl’s anti-Semtism a long time ago. A good writer but a creep.
Wasn’t he married to the actress Patricia Neal?
Yes he was. They divorced in 1983.
James and Giant Peach????
No, say it aint so.
gerald for some reason problems posting.
i also am interested but now time for the moment has gone
i did look at.
http://www.independent.co.uk/article-archive/
http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/54747/childrens-favourite-roald-dahl-proudly-antisemitic
it should be noted that dahl’s antisemitism didnt rear its ugly head till late in his life, when he may have started suffering from the symptoms of the disease that killed him
there is nothing in his literary fiction that points to antisemitism
not excusing it, but it might explain it
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