Jewish American novelist, visiting Hebron to research book project, tells reporter ‘this is the worst thing I have ever seen’
Pulitzer prize-winning American Jewish author Michael Chabon has slammed Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories as “the most grievous injustice I have ever seen in my life”.
Chabon was interviewed in East Jerusalem for American Jewish newspaper the Forward during a visit to research a book on 50 years of Israeli occupation. He said he was “not so worried” about alienating Jewish readers by writing about the occupation. “Once you see for yourself, it is pretty obvious, I think, to any human being with a heart and a mind, it is pretty clear what to feel about it.”
This man, by a checkpoint in the Jordan Valley: "I would line you up by the side of the road" and shoot. #btswrites http://pic.twitter.com/PQ9MRu2LDH
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