re: #378 Alouette

What did you think about that Israeli author who got caught plagiarizing, and then had a craptacular Pamelic meltdown claiming to be the real victim?

I’m disappointed. I’ve read some of Ragen’s articles about women’s issues in Israel and the haredi community, and I’ve planned to read some more of her novels. I really liked “The Saturday Wife”, which is all the fiction I’ve read by her so far. I think it was tacky to suggest that the judge screwed up because of the language barrier, (I assume this means he doesn’t speak English), and it was tacky to put the whole thing in Arutz Sheva (where the wingnut commenters do not seem super impressed with her). And it was tacky to accuse the woman she seems to have plagiarized of abusing her kids.

There’s a small bit in the back of my head that wonders if she was gone after for political reasons because I know her work has made people angry, but her behavior is so ridiculous that I can’t really see her as the victim of a conspiracy, and the court was a regular Israeli court. They saw the evidence.

She still writes better than Pam, though, I have to give her that.