Palestinians Won’t Have a State Unless Their Leaders Try to Build One
The journey to nowhere.
June 10, 2022
Prejudice “elevated to an idiotic principle.”
Reviewing the newly released second volume of a biography of T.S. Eliot, Philip Hensher finds himself asking if the dean of modernist poetry really deserved the prominence that he attained in his own lifetime, and has held onto after his death. One of the “cracks” that Hensher finds appearing in Eliot’s “once unassailable reputation” involves his anti-Semitism, which showed up occasionally in his verse.
The journey to nowhere.
A policy as incomprehensible as it was unsustainable.
They don’t want their anti-Semitism to be mistaken for mere criticism of Israel.
Prejudice “elevated to an idiotic principle.”
Iokobos and his funny Greek.
Reviewing the newly released second volume of a biography of T.S. Eliot, Philip Hensher finds himself asking if the dean of modernist poetry really deserved the prominence that he attained in his own lifetime, and has held onto after his death. One of the “cracks” that Hensher finds appearing in Eliot’s “once unassailable reputation” involves his anti-Semitism, which showed up occasionally in his verse.
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