There are dozens of articles (and even a play) condemning Roald Dahl’s purported antisemitism. None of which dwell on the Israeli war crimes Dahl wrote of …
“… in June 1982, the Israeli forces were streaming northwards out of what used to be Palestine into Lebanon, and the mass slaughter of the inhabitants began. Our hearts bled for the Lebanese and Palestinian men, women and children, and we all started hating the Israelis.”
“Never before in the history of man has a race of people switched so rapidly from being much-pitied victims to barbarous murderers.”
“The Jews came pouring in with American money and American guns and created the State of Israel and out went the Palestinians. That part of it is already history. We also know about the doings in those days of a murderous young terrorist called Menachem Begin who was blowing up British soldiers in a campaign designed to get more territory for the Jews than treaty obligations permitted.”
… and which continue to this very day.
A treacherous ingratitude by Jews given refuge in Palestine
One can see why Zionists despise Dahl. His descriptions of events directly contradict the Israel lobby’s narrative. They were not heroes “making the desert bloom” they were ungrateful ultranationalist fanatics awaiting their opportunity to steal their saviours’ lands and homes. An obsession in ethnic cleansing they have pursued for 80 plus years unto genocide.
From: Israel made the desert bloom | Info@decolonizepalestine.com
Going Solo (1986), the chapter titled “Palestine and Syria”
In his memoir Going Solo (1986), the chapter titled “Palestine and Syria” depicts an old Jewish man as a crook planning to steal land, claiming it for himself, refusing to integrate into Palestinian society
“You seem surprised to find us here,” the man said. “I am,” I said. “I wasn’t expecting to find anyone.”
“We are everywhere,” the man said. “We are all over the country.”
“Forgive me,” I said, “but I don’t understand. Who do you mean by we?”
“Jewish refugees.”
I really didn’t know what he was talking about. I had been living in East Africa for the past two years and in those times the British colonies were parochial and isolated.
The local newspaper, which was all we got to read, had not mentioned anything about Hitler’s persecution of the Jews in 1938 and 1939.
Nor did I have the faintest idea that the greatest mass murder in the history of the world was actually taking place in Germany at that moment.
“Is this your land?” I asked him. “Not yet,” he said.
“You mean you are hoping to buy it?” He looked at me in silence for a while. Then he said, “The land is at present owned by a Palestinian farmer but he has given us permission to live here. He has also allowed us some fields so that we can grow our own food.”
“So where do you go from here?” I asked him.
“We don’t go anywhere,” he said, smiling through his black beard. “We stay here.”
“Then you will all become Palestinians,” I said. “Or perhaps you are that already.”
He smiled again, presumably at the naivety of my questions.
“No,” the man said, “I do not think we will become Palestinians.”
Charli Duchalski writing for the Jewish Women’s Archive even managed to find antisemitism in Roald Dahl’s story The Witches.
Despite her professed research on Dahl, Charli somehow missed his career as a fighter pilot risking life and limb against those Jew-hating Nazis. She was however, able to share her “discovery” that the long noses on Dahl’s witches were in fact antisemitic devices.
A not very convincing ‘after the fact’ attempt to deflect – from Dahl’s very compassionate concern for Palestinians and Lebanese people being slaughtered by Jewish Israelis – with the ubiquitous antisemitism.
Dahl: “… what we had not seen until June 1982 was a new and violently aggressive Israel whose armed forces moved into Lebanon and murdered more than 25,000 people, mostly civilian men, women and children, and severely injured another 30,000.”
“One finds it almost Impossible to believe that a civilised people could perform such acts of fiendish barbarism upon women and children and patients in hospitals.”
“Modern bombing techniques using computers and electronic gadgets and aerial photography enable the fliers of today to select a single building in the centre of a city and blow it up with pinpoint accuracy. The Israelis pinpointed and hit no less than thirteen out of the seventeen hospitals in Beirut, one of them a mental hospital and many of the others full of children.”
“The authentic tales of horror and bestiality throughout this book make one wonder in the end what sort of people these Israelis are. It is like the good old Hitler and Himmler times all over again.”
In Ms Duchalski’s analysis of Dahl’s story The Witches it is the Jewish people (Zionists) who are the victims. Not the tens of thousands of dead and mutilated Palestinian and Lebanese civilians. Not the hundreds of thousands of innocent people made homeless and bereft of medical and other basic services. Zionists have wailed over Dahl’s allegedly hurtful words to make their victim’s tragedy invisible. An illogical but common tactic that continues to be employed by a people that have made themselves the most hated on the planet.
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