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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    1 year ago

    I feel this really is because of plucking the historical guilt strings and “if you’re against Israel’s actions you’re an anti-semit”

    But I am not in the know of the local German situation, so might as well be a wrong impression