This is an excellent piece about the Alice "Don't Translate My Book into Jew" Walker (hat tip: Barbara Kay).
Read the whole thing, but the best nugget, the one that explains the whole non-troversy is here:
"...this
is not about Walker’s concern for the Palestinians; it is about her attitude to
the Jews."
Therefore:
"The
real issue, therefore, is not Alice Walker, but us. Anti-Semites come and go.
Walker is not the first, nor will she be the last."
"There is nothing we
can do about that. But there is something we can do about our own reactions. Can
we learn to stop coddling cultural geniuses, even though we revere their craft
and talent, when they cross certain lines? "
