Hey, What Does Hamas Think Of The Color Purple?

by Bruce Bawer

Hitchens on the latest Gaza flotilla, in which The Color Purple author Alice Walker is a star player:

Only a few weeks ago, the Hamas regime in Gaza became the only governing authority in the world—by my count—to express outrage and sympathy at the death of Osama Bin Laden. As the wavelets lap in the Greek harbors, and the sunshine beats down, doesn't any journalist want to know whether the "activists" have discussed this element in their partners' world outlook? Does Alice Walker seriously have no comment?

Walker may have no comment, but Barbara Kay has a few interesting observations to offer up about Walker, which suggest that the beloved novelist is indeed, as Kay’s headline puts it, “a hypocrite on a hypocritical mission.”