As an Irishman resident in London I have an instinctive sympathy for Israel and have a major issue with the anti-Israel rhetoric emanating from my native land. I think it is linked with a victim mentality fostered by self-pitying Irish nationalists over many years and enshrined as a kind of central national identity, for want of anything better. I've tried to get a novel with a Jewish theme published here in the U.K and meet only indifference at best, contempt at worse. People need us to side with their version of events even when it's clearly politically contrived, morally wrong and biased. Hate rules these days and the truth is kicked into the sidelines.
gawd this awful...it's gotten worse! (in mah ol' home've Brooklyn, Powerhouse Books--a pox on their power haus!) banned a jooish book author a couple years back, I'm recallin'...) but my thought is that at least here-bouts in the US of Eh? there are many jewish-founded book publishers that "could" step up ta fill all the gaps--a few come ta mind: Simon & Schuster / Pocket Books, Knopf- Doubleday, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Straus wuzza joo!), Hachette... an' many more, I'm just not 'memberin' the complete list but "our tribe" has always been in the lit bizness! Soitenly they could offer at least a meetin' fer those locked out elsewhars... Oh... I think "Workman" is also founded by chews.... hth!
As an Irishman resident in London I have an instinctive sympathy for Israel and have a major issue with the anti-Israel rhetoric emanating from my native land. I think it is linked with a victim mentality fostered by self-pitying Irish nationalists over many years and enshrined as a kind of central national identity, for want of anything better. I've tried to get a novel with a Jewish theme published here in the U.K and meet only indifference at best, contempt at worse. People need us to side with their version of events even when it's clearly politically contrived, morally wrong and biased. Hate rules these days and the truth is kicked into the sidelines.
As an Irishwoman living in London, that is also my perception.
Thank you for all you do to elevate our collective voices, Rueben!
Thanks Jill
"As Dara Horn once commented, ‘People love dead Jews. Live Jews, not so much’..."
Well, of COURSE the world prefers dead Jews to living ones --- they're so much easier to CONTROL.
Look at what it did with Jesus once he was no longer around to scold them for presuming to make him 'God.'
gawd this awful...it's gotten worse! (in mah ol' home've Brooklyn, Powerhouse Books--a pox on their power haus!) banned a jooish book author a couple years back, I'm recallin'...) but my thought is that at least here-bouts in the US of Eh? there are many jewish-founded book publishers that "could" step up ta fill all the gaps--a few come ta mind: Simon & Schuster / Pocket Books, Knopf- Doubleday, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Straus wuzza joo!), Hachette... an' many more, I'm just not 'memberin' the complete list but "our tribe" has always been in the lit bizness! Soitenly they could offer at least a meetin' fer those locked out elsewhars... Oh... I think "Workman" is also founded by chews.... hth!
They may have their roots in the Jewish soil but I think the corporations have long since moved on from being run by Jews.
:-(
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