But no one pointed out the fact-- and I didn't know until Nicholas Hytner, the director, told me-- that Alice Walker, who wrote "The Color Purple," writes very extreme antisemitic poetry. And I don't have it in front of me.
But most importantly, I don't feel the need to publicly make any statement either way and that the desire of people for me to do so is racist. It's an antisemitic notion that Jews have to sort of place their cards on the table about Israel before they're allowed to talk about antisemitism. And in fact, the bit in the book that finishes with "Israel, meh" for me in the book is kind of a statement.
and said this is unacceptable and you can't be in "The Color Purple" because of it. No one even mentioned Alice Walker's antisemitic poetry. And no one still mentions it.
which is that, for me, if you're going to talk about Israel, I think it is entirely possible to be talking about Israel in quite extreme ways without necessarily being antisemitic . So for example, someone who believes that the state of Israel should not have been created in 1948, they're not necessarily an antisemite if they say that.
other students not just in the UK to feel comfortable having that debate. whether or not he was antisemitic -- I think it's actually more complicated than that.
No one did anything about it. The crowd carried on chanting the Y-word with extreme antisemitic abuse. And eventually, me and my brother had to make a film called "The Y-Word" that we took to kick racism out of football--
You see that a lot. For example, when the rapper Wiley was doing antisemitic tweets, I think Wiley was confused by the fact that he was being called out for that, because Wiley I think saw those tweets not as racism, but as punching up, as punching up against the man,
And that's clear in David Miller's speech. David Miller believing that the JSocs of Bristol are essentially the pawns of Mossad is entirely antisemitic . It's nothing to do with Zionism.
I do think it has-- I found myself saying this to somebody the other day that what other ideology that was aggressively anti-woman, homophobic, and antisemitic would the British left support? And the answer is probably none, but for some reason when it's a religion all that gets brushed aside,
to try to say, is this OK? Is this OK that people can chant this derogatory word for Jews with very extraordinary, extreme add-on antisemitic menaces and no one in the progressive community, in the anti-racism of football community, seems to care about it?