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submitted 11 months ago by SmokeInFog@midwest.social to c/world@lemmy.world

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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[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 19 points 11 months ago
[-] chitak166@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"Despite backlash"

Zionists and their supporters never argue in good faith. They've been conditioning themselves for generations to retaliate identically to Russia/Nazis/Republicans when criticized.

In their minds, it's victory by any means necessary. Even if it means using nuclear weapons first.

Zionists are Nazis. They view the Jewish people like Nazis viewed the Aryans. They view Palestinians like Nazis viewed Jews.

They also have killed more civilians in 2 months than Russia has killed in 2 years, just to put things into perspective.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 11 points 11 months ago

Damn right.

Go ahead and call me an antisemite, Israeli genocide apologists. I probably won't see it because I blocked you already.

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