US-Russian journalist Masha Gessen won Germany’s Hannah Arendt prize for political thought

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.

  • @Therealgoodjanet
    9•11 months ago

    I get it; Germany has a lot of guilt and are vehemently on Israel’s side to “make up for their mistakes”, but the only thing that’s unacceptable here is the situation in Gaza, not calling out the situation. They should be careful to not end up on the wrong side of history again.