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In the discussion thread: Israel bars German author over poem critical of its nuclear arsenal [View all]

Sun Apr 8, 2012, 04:00 PM

Trillo (7,244 posts)

4. Is this why so many good authors were repeatedly blocked from publication in the US?

That there are global "blacklists", and if you're on one you'll never be published by any group that will see to it you get a royalty check every month?

Does Isreal represent a metaphorical facet that all humans are subjected to? Is the Palestine/Isreal issue either merely or also a metaphor for the economic war waged against the poor everywhere?

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82 replies	Author	Time	Post
Israel bars German author over poem critical of its nuclear arsenal [View all]	bananas	Apr 2012	OP
As Valerie Plame said, getting to global zero won't be easy. nt	bananas	Apr 2012	#1
German author?	JerseyMac	Apr 2012	#2
Life long Nazi. n/t	Old Union Guy	Apr 2012	#3
That's not true.	tabasco	Apr 2012	#6
yes Günter Glass did serve in an SS Panzer unit in 1944 when he was 17 didn't he?	azurnoir	Apr 2012	#8
Shame on you.	JackRiddler	Apr 2012	#10
So are all IDF members lifelong Irgun terrorists by your asinine and simple logic?	Robeysays	Apr 2012	#12
If someone was in Irgun and seems to advocate for Irgun positions decades later.	Kurska	Apr 2012	#25
Grass isn't advocating for a Nazi position.	Ken Burch	Apr 2012	#34
This post was hidden by jury decision.	Old Union Guy	Apr 2012	#72
That's twice you've made that accusation about me	Ken Burch	Apr 2012	#78
Bullshit	Ken Burch	Apr 2012	#23
Thank you for the truth, Ken	Tom Ripley	Apr 2012	#24
Doesnt matter. In the end its their country and they can say who can enter it and who cant just like	cstanleytech	Apr 2012	#52
Ok.	Ken Burch	Apr 2012	#57
He was a Nazi. You can argue he isn't one anymore.	Kurska	Apr 2012	#58
The poem wasn't antisemitic	Ken Burch	Apr 2012	#65
I dont know if he is or if he isnt and frankly I dont care nor	cstanleytech	Apr 2012	#60
Did you realize your entire post was a run-on sentence?	Ken Burch	Apr 2012	#64
This post was hidden by jury decision.	Old Union Guy	Apr 2012	#73
You just accused me of promoting something unspeakable, because I disagreed with you about a poem.	Ken Burch	Apr 2012	#77
Bullshit. Grass is a lifelong ANTI-Nazi	Ken Burch	Apr 2012	#79
Not true	LeftishBrit	Apr 2012	#80
Gunter the Nazi was Waffen SS.	Ruby the Liberal	Apr 2012	#7
wasn't it the Waffen SS Panzer unit and for how many years was that? n/t	azurnoir	Apr 2012	#9
Is this why so many good authors were repeatedly blocked from publication in the US?	Trillo	Apr 2012	#4
I guess Mordechai Vanunu was an anti-semite, too!	provis99	Apr 2012	#5
Former Waffen SS member Guther Grass barred	Riftaxe	Apr 2012	#11
Then we should Bar all Israelis who severed in the IDF for there life long Irgun Affiliation.	Robeysays	Apr 2012	#13
Well first of Irgun isn't nearly the equivalent to the Waffen SS.	Kurska	Apr 2012	#26
they didn't bar him for being a Nazi.	provis99	Apr 2012	#14
This post was hidden by jury decision.	Old Union Guy	Apr 2012	#74
It's not just Israel's nuclear arsenal that needs to be destroyed,	WHEN CRABS ROAR	Apr 2012	#15
Might as well wish for a unicorn as thats as likely to happen imo.	cstanleytech	Apr 2012	#20
Author of "The Tin Drum".	no_hypocrisy	Apr 2012	#16
Wow. Godwin's Law much??	Malikshah	Apr 2012	#17
thanks you got it exactly right	azurnoir	Apr 2012	#31
Read the poem.	WHEN CRABS ROAR	Apr 2012	#18
hey israel way to take the high ground while murdering people worldwide	starfox172	Apr 2012	#19
It's frustrating to me that there seems to be no distinction in the minds of some	XemaSab	Apr 2012	#21
You're right - judging Jews by Israel is like judging Americans by George W.	saras	Apr 2012	#22
True	primavera	Apr 2012	#36
This guy was Waffen SS. Ideological apples rarely fall far from their ideological roots.	Kurska	Apr 2012	#27
so criticizing Israels nukes is firing a broadside at the Jewish people?	azurnoir	Apr 2012	#30
Calling the Jewish state the world's greatest threat to peace is. n/t	Kurska	Apr 2012	#37
The word you are ignoring is "drafted".	PavePusher	Apr 2012	#35
Part of a wartime building company. Voluntered to join the Kreigsmarine.	Kurska	Apr 2012	#38
Which had little to do with National Socialist sympathies, if any.	PavePusher	Apr 2012	#43
Back track much?	Kurska	Apr 2012	#44
I never said he didn't volunteer for the military.	PavePusher	Apr 2012	#49
Hitler youth, volunteered for service, holds anti-semitic beliefs decades later.	Kurska	Apr 2012	#54
I ask again for cites for your claims, please.	PavePusher	Apr 2012	#61
He was a Hitler youth member	Kurska	Apr 2012	#62
You know nothing about Günter Grass	reorg	Apr 2012	#63
Because you say so? n/t	Kurska	Apr 2012	#68
So you are claiming that anti-semitism is in the ire of the beholder?	Tom Ripley	Apr 2012	#66
No I'm saying it is harder to prove as objective fact than membership in an organization.	Kurska	Apr 2012	#67
Cites to an internet post, and an Isreali newspaper...	PavePusher	Apr 2012	#70
Some more actual history for you....	PavePusher	Apr 2012	#50
"wartime building company"? Cite, please. n/t	PavePusher	Apr 2012	#51
Luftwaffenhelfer	Kurska	Apr 2012	#55
Too bad for Israel	Arctic Dave	Apr 2012	#28
LOL. Showing my ignorance, I thought	BlueMTexpat	Apr 2012	#29
Israel’s policy endangers world peace’ — Jakob Augstein and Gideon Levy have Gunter Grass’s back	JohnyCanuck	Apr 2012	#32
If you're threatened by a poem, you are clearly and unequivocally WRONG. End of story.	saras	Apr 2012	#33
Many people at many times have felt threatened by Nazi's. n/t	Kurska	Apr 2012	#39
Gunter Grass is not really any more of a Nazi than the pope is	RZM	Apr 2012	#40
but don't you see	Bodhi BloodWave	Apr 2012	#41
It is pretty odd	RZM	Apr 2012	#42
Except he didn't just critize Israel's nuclear weapons.	Kurska	Apr 2012	#45
Does that mean that DUers who say the same thing are disguised as liberals too?	RZM	Apr 2012	#46
If anyone is saying Israel wants to kill every Iranian and is the primary threat to world peace	Kurska	Apr 2012	#47
I've never heard anyone here argue the first one	RZM	Apr 2012	#48
Grass did not make any of these assertions	reorg	Apr 2012	#53
I actually read the poem.	Kurska	Apr 2012	#56
Your posts don't reflect that	reorg	Apr 2012	#59
Except he isn't talking about a war spiraling out of control.	Kurska	Apr 2012	#69
He clearly references	reorg	Apr 2012	#81
It's a lie to justify genocide.	Old Union Guy	Apr 2012	#75
He didn't say that at all. You didn't even read it.	arikara	Apr 2012	#76
Citation needed	JVS	Apr 2012	#82
This post was hidden by jury decision.	Old Union Guy	Apr 2012	#71

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