'The Color Purple' Author Targeted For Destruction For Saying She Read David Icke Book

Pulitzer-Prize winning author Alice Walker endorsed an "insanely Anti-Semitic" book in a recent interview with the New York Times.

The author of The Color Purple and Meridian was asked by the Times Thursday which books she had on her bookshelf.

"'And the Truth Shall Set You Free,' by David Icke," Walker responded. "In Icke's books there is the whole of existence, on this planet and several others, to think about. A curious person's dream come true."

But as Tablet Magazine noted Monday, Icke and his book spread long-discredited hoaxes like The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and blaming Jews for Adolf Hitler and the Ku Klux Klan.

Confusingly, despite blaming the Holocaust on Jews, Icke also endorses Holocaust denial in the book. "Why do we play a part in suppressing alternative information to the official line of the Second World War?" he asks. "How is it right that while this fierce suppression goes on, free copies of the Spielberg film, Schindler's List, are given to schools to indoctrinate children with the unchallenged version of events?"

"What is the difference between the controlled anti-Jewish media under Hitler and the way the Japanese magazine, Marco Polo, was closed down by its parent company in 1995 because of a campaign by the global Jewish hierarchy to stop its advertising revenue after it published an article questioning some of the official stories of the Nazi concentration camps?" he also writes.

[...]This is not Walker's first time endorsing Icke's work. In 2015, she linked to an interview of Icke by InfoWars' Alex Jones. "I like these two because they're real, and sometimes Alex Jones is a bit crazy; many Aquarians are," she wrote. "Icke only appears crazy to people who don't appreciate the stubbornness required when one is called to a duty it is impossible to evade."

To those asking why I never mentioned David Icke believes the world is controlled by reptilian aliens: It was deliberate. Icke uses "reptilians" as lazy code for Jews, to evade claims of anti-Semitism, avoid scrutiny & pose as a harmless fringe crank. I chose not to fall for it. https://t.co/CXd5nBaL1y

— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) December 17, 2018

We’re deeply disappointed that @nytimes would print Alice Walker’s unqualified endorsement of a book by notorious anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist David Icke. We have asked editors to update the review w/ information about this author's #antiSemitism https://t.co/C7cse1xxYt

— ADL (@ADL_National) December 17, 2018