Thread going over excerpt's of Julie Burchill's book Unchosen: The Memoirs of a Philo-Semite

  • TrumanShow_IRL [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    her wiki article is dunks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Burchill#Religion_and_philo-semitism

    "The problem is [Burchill] doesn’t have any in-depth knowledge. I can imagine her endlessly watching the film Exodus with Paul Newman. She’s got a kind of Hollywood view of Jews. You know, ‘Jews are so clever, we’ve survived...'."[58]

    She announced in November 2012 that her next book, Unchosen, was to be crowd-source funded, via Unbound, and published after enough pledges had been received.[57] Her agent had failed to interest six conventional publishers in the project.[59]

    "Crowd funded journalists" no thanks, how about we crowd fund this: :gui-better:

    In 2014, Burchill's book Unchosen: The Memoirs of a Philo-Semite was published. Tel Aviv-based writer Akin Ajayi in Haaretz thought "the reactionary solipsism of Unchosen is far removed from the affectionate warmness that a love of the Jewish people can be".[60] Burchill's ex-husband, Cosmo Landesman, considered it to be an "exhilarating and exasperating mix of the utterly brilliant and the totally bonkers". He observes that "there are plenty of Jews Julie doesn't love" including the "millions of Jews around the world who have ever criticised Israel. Her love is blind, deaf and dumb to such an obvious contradiction".[61] Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman wrote: "Hilariously, she sets herself up as the Jewishness Police, railing against Jews who are not Jewish enough".