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Alice Walker - author and poet, USA

Alice Walker		Is she objective?

		Alice Walker is the narrator of a documentary about Israel called “Roadmap to Apartheid.”
		Ma'an News Agency 25.6.2011 – “Alice Walker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and poet, commented, ‘I grew up in the South under segregation, under the state terrorism of apartheid. When I was in the West Bank and Gaza recently, it was like stepping back into that.’”
		In an Interview to the website “Palestine Israel one country: Say no to apartheid” on June 30, 2011, Alice Walker stated: “‘settlers are the Klan,’ she says definitively, referring to the notorious white supremacist terror organization. ‘They don’t have their white sheets because I guess they don’t need them.’”
		Interviewed by Foreign Policy, Alice Walker stated: “I think Israel is the greatest terrorist in that part of the world. And I think in general, the United States and Israel are great terrorist organizations themselves.”
		On her blog, she has published “A Call to Action from Indigenous and Women of Color Feminists,” which after touring Israel declared, “what we can now confidently name as the Israeli project of apartheid and ethnic cleansing.” Additionally blogging about her own experience in Israel she stated “However, beginning at the Allenby Bridge crossing, on our way into Occupied Palestine, I began to want my niece, bogged to the neck with her twins as she is, to observe the scene with me. Because it was tantamount to stepping back into our own past of segregation (United States apartheid) with its, for us people of color, rigidly enforced brutality and fifth class ‘citizenship.’”
		In her introduction to the book “Palestine Inside out: An everyday occupation,” Mrs. Walker wrote, “There were many times, reading this book, that I had to put it aside. It brought up too many memories of being black and living in the United States under American style apartheid.” She additionally wrote “It has seemed to me, reading Palestine, Inside Out, An Everyday Occupation, that only a saint could bear to contemplate such cruelty and diabolical torture as Palestinians undergo on a daily basis under Israeli military rule, and only a warrior of compassion, a bodhisattva in fact, one who vows never to leave the earth until every suffering being is relieved, who could bring this knowledge to the conscience of the global community."