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the author said that while he has “argued for a Palestinian state for most of my life – since the 1980s, probably –"

He was born before the Nakba ffs, read Stalin on the national question:

III. PRESENTATION OF THE QUESTION

A nation has the right freely to determine its own destiny. It has the right to arrange its life as it sees fit, without, of course, trampling on the rights of other nations. That is beyond dispute.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm

I am sick of smart guys pretending they do not understand the goal of national liberation movements. The struggle does not end when Palestine is recognised as a state.

ps have a nice day comrades, communism will win, up the P.F.L.P.

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[–] HexBroke@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago

In 2009, Rushdie signed a petition in support of film director Roman Polanski, calling for his release after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 charge for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

It's funny because like the Taliban, one side of this conflict is being armed by the US, and it isn't the Palestinians.

[–] Optimus_Subprime@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now I can see why he has a fatwa on his head.

[–] DyingOfDeBordom@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like someone needs another fatwa

[–] D61@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

We've had first fatwa...

second-breakfast

... but what about second fatwa?

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

Oh shit, some random novelist that looks like a cartoon villain has opinions guys

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

Well, I guess we should just let them die then. shrug-outta-hecks

[–] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Go play beer pong with Dan Crenshaw, you hack.

[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In a tragic game of soggy biscuit, Crenshaw loses his other eye to Rushdie ropes.

[–] dannoffs@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe its because I'm deep in the Yakuza hole at the moment, but I hate that I think he looks cool.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] dannoffs@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We have a Majima emote? Lol

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

It'd be more surprising if we didn't

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Rushdie has been married five times and has two children; his first four marriages ended in divorce.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dude's name is pronounced like a fish, he doesn't get how sunglasses work apparently and he wrote a book so shitty the ayatolla wanted him dead. What an asshole.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Just in case anybody doesn't know - small chance I know - I'll leave this here...

Salman Rushdie: Losing an eye upsets me every day

Sir Salman Rushdie has spoken in chilling detail to the BBC about what he remembers of the attack two years ago, in which he was stabbed on stage. The Booker Prize-winning author said his eye was left hanging down his face "like a soft-boiled egg", and that losing the eye "upsets him every day".

[–] Skeleton_Erisma@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

James Bond villain ahh glasses

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

stab him again

[–] D61@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Palestinians

is-this

are these terrorists?