(Jewish Group) This isn't the first time Alice Walker has been disinvited
Alice Walker, the human rights advocate and celebrated author of, among other poetry and fiction, the award-winning 1982 novel “The Color Purple,” had been invited to the Bay Area Book Festival. The downtown Berkeley event has been held since 2015, and this year, she was to interview the festival’s headliner, writer Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.
But, after being apprised of some of Walker’s nonfictional views, the event’s organizers rescinded the invitation.
At first, it was reported that Walker’s pro-Palestinian stance had prompted the disinvitation.
And, indeed, Walker has had harsh words for Israel. She refused to authorize a Hebrew translation of “The Color Purple,” because, as she wrote to an Israeli publisher in 2012, “Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people.”
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The excuses given by Walker and the provost are nothing more than examples of gaslighting and preferred bigotry status.