Tom Paulin

Poet

1949-01-25

Quotes by Tom Paulin

• In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction.

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• My parents were Northern Ireland Labour party people. We read the 'Guardian' and the 'New Statesman,' listened to the BBC. The house was full of books. We didn't get a television until 'That Was The Week That Was' started. There was nothing to do but read.

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• Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.

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• This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat.

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• A truly vibrant and creative culture depends on a system of education which is not divided along class and sectarian lines.

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• Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions - the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices lurking beneath apparently pleasant social surfaces, the cosy smugness of belonging.

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• You are either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist.

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• Look, you're either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist: there's no middle way. Everyone who supports the state of Israel is a Zionist.

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• Everyone who supports Israel is a Zionist.

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