Renowned British novelist Ian McEwan has accepted an Israeli literary prize in Jerusalem with harsh criticism of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. At an acceptance ceremony for the Jerusalem Prize, McEwan praised Israel’s technological and artistic advances but asked: “Where is Israel’s political creativity?” He criticized Israel’s 1967 annexation of east Jerusalem, the part Palestinians claim as the capital of a future state.
It’s good that people will speak truth to power. It’s a rare thing and getting rarer by the day in our age of toadying cowardice and kow-towing. So kudos, Ian,kudos.
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Again, so easy for him to say..from his Ivory Tower! Now tell me that’s not hypocrisy itself!
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