If something or someone is being banned, I want to be among the first to know about it.Howard Jacobson
The terrorist isn't a problem because he doesn't conform; he's a problem because he does. It's what he conforms to that makes him dangerous.Howard Jacobson
Let discernment in matters of fashion and entertainment determine who should get the vote, and half the country would be disenfranchised.Howard Jacobson
The presence of a Jew in any movement no more guarantees it to be innocent of antisemitism than guilty. And that applies to anti-Zionism, too. Anti-Zionist Jews exist, but that tells one nothing about anti-Zionism.Howard Jacobson
Not every anti-Semite is Joseph Goebbels. You can not like Jews much and be no great harm to them.Howard Jacobson
There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.Salman Rushdie
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.Salman Rushdie
Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'Salman Rushdie
If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.Salman Rushdie
