The "antisemitism" of John le Carré
He remains a product of his time and an enigma. Was he on the side of the Jewish people — or their enemies?
John le Carré, 2017
John le Carré, the acclaimed grandmaster of the spy novel who died last weekend at the age of 89, was dogged for years by allegations of antisemitism.
The plot of his 1983 novel The Little Drummer Girl, which involves the Mossad recruiting an English actress with radical sympathies to infiltrate a Palestinian terrorist faction, present…
