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New Yorker writer on why Hannah Arendt prize was cancelled

Posted by scrabb <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=scrabb' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 5, 2024, 4:01 pm

The German-based organiser of this prize withdrew it when this New Yorker writer who won it wrote a piece comparing the Israeli government's ethic cleansing of Palestine with the Nazi holocaust. Here the writer explains what happened.

This piece is relevant to the previous postings here of PEN America's cancellation of an awards ceremony because a number of writers withdrew their works from consideration.

Re: New Yorker writer on why Hannah Arendt prize was cancelled

Posted by RaskolnikovX <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Raskolnikov' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 5, 2024, 5:39 pm, in reply to "New Yorker writer on why Hannah Arendt prize was cancelled"

The Germans really have gone all the way round the bend on this and it seems the only acceptable free speech is supporting the apartheid state.

They are not going to be judged kindly by history, once again.

This is utterly bonkers. They MUST know how it looks, right?

...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

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