'The only mistake he makes' - that and the comment about 'great Jewish financial institutions ' - as if religion plays any part in what giant corporations get up to. Ditto other comments about supposed Jewish control of the media - no, it's control of the media by big business, which always sides with the powerful regardless of their ethnicity or religion.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl#Post-war_life

Dahl made repeated antisemitic comments throughout his life,[101] and ultimately stated he was antisemitic in his late life.[102] In August 1983, Dahl reviewed Australian author Tony Clifton's God Cried, a picture book about the siege of West Beirut by the Israeli army during the 1982 Lebanon War.[103] The article, in which Dahl stated the Jews had never "switched so rapidly from much-pitied victims to barbarous murderers", appeared in the Literary Review and was the subject of media comment and criticism at the time.[104] Dahl wrote that Clifton's book would make readers "violently anti-Israeli", at the time saying, "I am not anti-Semitic. I am anti-Israel."[105] In 1990, Dahl spoke again on the Lebanon invasion, stating "they killed 22,000 civilians when they bombed Beirut. It was very much hushed up in the newspapers because they are primarily Jewish-owned. I'm certainly anti-Israeli and I've become antisemitic in as much as that you get a Jewish person in another country like England strongly supporting Zionism. I think they should see both sides. It's the same old thing: we all know about Jews and the rest of it. There aren't any non-Jewish publishers anywhere, they control the media—jolly clever thing to do".[106] His comments invoked responses from Jewish colleagues and friends, with the philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin, stating, "I thought he might say anything. Could have been pro-Arab or pro-Jew. There was no consistent line. He was a man who followed whims, which meant he would blow up in one direction, so to speak",[105] while Amelia Foster, Jewish director of the Roald Dahl Museum in Great Missenden, said, "He had a childish reaction to what was going on in Israel. Dahl wanted to provoke, as he always provoked at dinner."[107] As a consequence of his comments, in 2014, the Royal Mint decided not to produce a coin to commemorate the centenary of Dahl's birth.[108] In 2020, Dahl's family published a statement on the official Roald Dahl website apologising for his antisemitism.[109]

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'criticism at the time' links to this Spectator article pearl-clutching about Dahl's 'affront to decency', throwing out the usual zionist guff about poor little israel under attack by rabid Arabs from the outset, crying about comparisons to the n@zis, and completely missing the humanitarian thrust of Dahl's article, dismissing the book he was reviewing on the Lebanon atrocities as 'tendentious'. Treating non-white Arabs as real human beings is verboten in polite society, then as now.

https://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/3rd-september-1983/15/the-press

cheers,
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