an outright advocate for the movement. She was a keynote speaker at the 1942 Biltmore Conference, and by war's end was regarded as one of the most effective spokespersons for Zionism. However, Thompson's attitude towards the movement had already begun to shift, most especially after a 1945 trip to Palestine, as she grew more concerned with the movement's right wing and its escalating terrorism against the British. After penning several columns critical of right wing Zionist terror, Thompson faced a tremendous backlash that ultimately led her into cooperation with leaders of the Jewish anti-Zionist organization, the American Council for Judaism. After publishing a 1950 critique of American Zionism in Commentary that raised the specter of dual loyalty, that backlash only grew. This included accusations of anti-Semitism, which Thompson strongly rebuffed, after being warned that hostility toward Israel was, in the American press world, "almost a definition of professional suicide". She eventually concluded that Zionism was a recipe for perpetual war. As Thompson's distance from the Zionist movement grew, she became an advocate for Palestinian refugees. After traveling to the Middle East in 1950, Thompson was involved in the founding of the American Friends of the Middle East, which was secretly funded by the CIA. Personal life She was married three times, most famously to second husband and Nobel Prize in literature winner Sinclair Lewis. In 1923 she married her first husband, Hungarian Joseph Bard; they divorced in 1927. Thompson married Lewis in 1928 and acquired a house in Vermont. They had one son, Michael Lewis, born in 1930. The couple divorced in 1942. She married her third husband, artist , in 1945, and they were married until Kopf's death in 1958. Thompson died in 1961, aged 67, in Lisbon, Portugal, and is buried in the town cemetery of Barnard, Vermont. In popular culture Her marriage to Sinclair Lewis was the subject of Sherman Yellen's Broadway play Strangers, where she was played by Lois Nettleton. The play opened on March 4, 1979, and closed after nine performances. The Silencing of Dorothy Thompson In 2014 the media company Alternate Focus was raising money for A 90-minute documentary entitled The Silencing of Dorothy Thompson. The project had the backing of Alison Weir, the founder of If Americans Knew. Works 1928: The New Russia (Holt) 1932: I Saw Hitler! (Farrar and Rinehart) 1935: Maps 1938: Dorothy Thompson's Political Guide: A Study of American Liberalism