Alice Walker, author of “The Color Purple,” might have been seeing red after she was ambushed by conservative gadfly Evan Gahr on Thursday.
The Pulitzer Prize winner — a panelist at a New York University symposium on leftist historian Howard Zinn — didn’t say much about Hamas or her support for the Palestinian cause.
So Gahr asked, “Do you think 9/11 was an act of terrorism?”
Walker: “Yes. But I don’t know who did it . . . do you?”
Gahr: “Yeah, the 9/11 hijackers . . . do you think the government did it?”
Walker said, “I don’t know,” before walking away.
Last year, Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League characterized her book “The Cushion in the Road” as anti-Semitic.
“Alice Walker has sunk to new lows with essays that remove the gloss of her anti-Israel activism to reveal someone who is unabashedly infected with anti-Semitism,” Foxman said.
“She has taken her extreme and hostile views to a shocking new level, revealing the depth of her hatred of Jews and Israel to a degree that we have not witnessed before.”