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=====Despite backlash, Masha Gessen says comparing Gaza to a Nazi-era ghetto is necessary===== | |||
[https://www.npr.org/2023/12/22/1221128897/masha-gessen-essay-israel-gaza-germany-hannah-arendt-prizeby Rachel Treisman, Leila Fadel 12/22/23 NPR] | |||
Gessen, who is Jewish and whose family lost loved ones in the Holocaust, has been criticized for a [https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/in-the-shadow-of-the-holocaust 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. | |||
Gessen notes there are key differences between the two: The Nazi claim that ghettos were necessary to protect non-Jews from disease "had no basis in reality," while Israel's stance that the isolation of Gaza is necessary to protect against Palestinian terrorist attacks "stems from actual and repeated acts of violence." | |||
===== All politicians “game” the system. The question is how? ===== | ===== All politicians “game” the system. The question is how? ===== | ||
