Language:
Spanish
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Raíces; revista judía de cultura
Angaben zur Quelle:
52-53 (2002) 39-46
Keywords:
Saramago, José
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Arab-Israeli conflict Literature and the conflict
Abstract:
In 2002, during a visit to the Palestinian city of Ramallah, the Portuguese writer and Nobel laureate José Saramago equated the Israeli occupation of the West Bank with Auschwitz, and the Israeli army with the Nazis. Afterwards, in his article "De las piedras de David a los tanques de Goliat" ("El País", 2002), he made an analogy between the biblical story of David and Goliath and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He blamed Israel for pursuing the annihilation of the Palestinian people and justified the actions of Palestinian terrorists against Israeli civilians. Asserts that Saramago expressed the views of the European anti-Zionist Left, which projects onto the Jews and Israel all the defects of the contemporary world: racism, expansionism, religious fanaticism, and the power of money, thereby reproducing traditional antisemitic prejudices.
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