Don’t Cancel Alice Walker. Hold Her Accountable.

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Four years ago, I accidentally canceled Alice Walker. In December 2018, I was attending a seminar for journalists at Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum, and was supposed to be on a break from writing. But then the published an with Walker, the celebrated author of , in which she recommended a cartoonishly anti-Semitic book to readers, and, was written by conspiracy theorist David Icke. It mentions the word “Jewish” 241 times and the name “Rothschild” 374 times. These citations are not compliments. Among other pearls of wisdom, Icke claims that the Jews bankrolled the Holocaust and secretly control neo-Nazi groups and the KKK, all while approvingly citing the .