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A German foundation has said it will no longer be awarding a prize for political thinking to a leading Russian-American journalist after criticizing as “unacceptable” a recent essay by the writer in which they made a comparison between Gaza and a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe.

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[–] [email protected] 269 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

The hypocrisy of the Heinrich Böll Foundation (and the German government in general) is incredible.

Here you have a Jewish person who is a journalist and a renowned political thinker who was being given the award for being someone who "reports on power games and totalitarian tendencies as well as civil disobedience and the love of freedom".

They 100% have the position, right, and accuracy to be comparing the state of Gaza currently to the WWII ghettos.

Edit: Something else to note. The Foundation made this statement ""But Masha Gessen's views should not be honored with a prize intended to commemorate the Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt".

And I can't help but laugh. Do they not know Arendt's past stance on Israel? She was literally one of the first world-renowned Jewish anti-Zionists.

She literally compared the Likud party to the Nazis!

[–] [email protected] 84 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I literally just finished reading this piece, and it provides so much context to this ridiculousness

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

1948, too. Lived context.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 8 months ago

This is the real, actual cancel culture, and usual suspects are silent, as expected.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago

Do they not know Arendt’s past stance on Israel?

Partly jewish, German citizen here. I'll answer this for you. No, they don't. They never worked out their own history. It's all just teathre.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

Hannah Arendt would be punished as antisemite in today Germany. What a cesspool that country is becoming once again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

That is incredible

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Someone had commented that, in today's Germany, she would not have received the award which is named after her own name.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

What's an extreme ideology without revisionist history?