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cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/6758033

Archived link: https://web.archive.org/web/20231222185134/https://www.npr.org/2023/12/22/1221128897/masha-gessen-essay-israel-gaza-germany-hannah-arendt-prize

Prominent Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen received a prestigious award for political thought over the weekend, in a ceremony that almost didn't happen due to backlash over their recent writings on Israel-Gaza.

Israel's air-and-ground assault on Gaza has killed more than 20,000 people in the 10 weeks since the Hamas-led attack on Israel killed some 1,200 people and took more than 240 others hostage.

Gessen, who is Jewish and whose family lost loved ones in the Holocaust, has been criticized for a New Yorker essay published earlier this month in which they likened the Gaza Strip to the WWII-era ghettos that Nazis developed to segregate and control Jewish people in occupied Europe.

Gessen argues in the essay that treating the Holocaust as a "singular event," unlike anything that has occurred before or after in history, not only is incorrect but makes it impossible to learn lessons from the Holocaust that are needed to prevent future genocides.

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[–] filister@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the paradise on earth that you cannot escape: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip to refresh your memory. The paradise on earth that is enclosed with walls, which is impossible to escape. I wonder how you would feel in this paradise yourself. But silly me, why asking you uncomfortable questions.

[–] LaChaleurDeLaNuit@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But why do you blame Israel for this shit hole? Do you understand HAMAS manages the money there and that its leaders live in wealth in Qatar? None of those stupid comments make me uncomfortable and I keep debunking them, and you keep denying them and downvoting me because what you want is not a debate but an echo chamber. So just say that and say you just want to blame Israel for everything Gazans go through, without checking how any of it really works on the field.

[–] filister@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Your point of view is completely biased in this case, I don't think you are objective.

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

He's also gaslighting us. Israel has had Gaza under an insanely repressive economic blockade since 2006. There was 50% unemployment even before the lastest attacks. Israeli politicians even bragged about their power to put "Palestinians on a diet" by restrictions on food imports.