In the 1960s,
The Color Purple novelist and activist
Alice Walker
married a Jewish man and gave birth to a biracial baby, Rebecca. Now
more than 40 years later, the couple is long-divorced, the mother and
half-Jewish daughter are estranged, and the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Alice
is the celebrity sponsor of a movement committed to the destruction of
the Jewish state. How could Alice make such a profound shift from
joining a Jewish family to aiding in the Jewish people’s annihilation?
Perhaps it is not that Alice changed. Rather, the political religion
that served as her anchor suffered a radical devolution since the
colorblind dream of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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