Irish Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire refused to board a U.K.-bound flight on Tuesday after being barred by security from entering Israel.
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Maguire's entry was barred due to her participation in an attempt to violate Israel's naval blockade on the Gaza Strip aboard the aid ship Rachel Corrie in June. The vessel was intercepted and boarded by the Israeli Navy and led to Ashdod harbor, with Maguire being deported from Israel, along with the ship's other passengers.
I remember when this woman was leading a women's peace movement against the IRA in Northern Ireland. The British government and the mainstream media couldn't praise her highly enough. Now she's a forgotten woman.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of when Solzhenitsyn was slagging off the Soviet system. Reagan, Thatcher and all those freedom lovers praised him to the high heavens, published everything he wrote, and gave it maximum publicity.
Then he arrived in the USA and began to slag off capitalism. The rest was silence.
Jemmy, there's more to the Sol<span>zhenitsyn story. He has written a book, 200 Hundred years Together, that no publisher has accepted to publish it in the US. Here:
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Solzhenitsyn breaks last taboo of the revolution
Nobel laureate under fire for new book on the role of Jews in Soviet-era repression
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who first exposed the horrors of the Stalinist gulag, is now attempting to tackle one of the most sensitive topics of his writing career - the role of the Jews in the Bolshevik revolution and Soviet purges.
In his latest book Solzhenitsyn, 84, deals with one of the last taboos of the communist revolution: that Jews were as much perpetrators of the repression as its victims. Two Hundred Years Together - a reference to the 1772 partial annexation of Poland and Russia which greatly increased the Russian Jewish population - contains three chapters discussing the Jewish role in the revolutionary genocide and secret police purges of Soviet Russia.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jan/25/russia.books
<span>Jemmy, there's more to the Sol<span>zhenitsyn story. He has written a book, 200 Hundred years Together, that no publisher has accepted to publish it in the US. Here:
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Solzhenitsyn breaks last taboo of the revolution
Nobel laureate under fire for new book on the role of Jews in Soviet-era repression </span>
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who first exposed the horrors of the Stalinist gulag, is now attempting to tackle one of the most sensitive topics of his writing career - the role of the Jews in the Bolshevik revolution and Soviet purges.
In his latest book Solzhenitsyn, 84, deals with one of the last taboos of the communist revolution: that Jews were as much perpetrators of the repression as its victims. Two Hundred Years Together - a reference to the 1772 partial annexation of Poland and Russia which greatly increased the Russian Jewish population - contains three chapters discussing the Jewish role in the revolutionary genocide and secret police purges of Soviet Russia.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jan/25/russia.books</span>
But Jewish leaders and some historians have reacted furiously to the book, and questioned Solzhenitsyn's motives in writing it, accusing him of factual inaccuracies and of fanning the flames of anti-semitism in Russia.
ReplyDeleteSolzhenitsyn argues that some Jewish satire of the revolutionary period "consciously or unconsciously descends on the Russians" as being behind the genocide. But he states that all the nation's ethnic groups must share the blame, and that people shy away from speaking the truth about the Jewish experience.
In one remark which infuriated Russian Jews, he wrote: "If I would care to generalise, and to say that the life of the Jews in the camps was especially hard, I could, and would not face reproach for an unjust national generalisation. But in the camps where I was kept, it was different. The Jews whose experience I saw - their life was softer than that of others."
A. S. does have reputation for anti-semitism, TG. His "Lenin in Zurich" is said to portray Lenin as the creature of a Jewish speculator named Israel Parvus, or Helfand. Apparently the Russian revolution was a Jewish plot.
ReplyDeleteI tried to read the novel once but gave up, so I can only quote a review of it for this claim.