In the paragraph the HBS draws attention to, Gessen wrote that “ghetto” would be “the more appropriate term” to describe Gaza,
but the word “would have drawn fire for comparing the predicament of besieged Gazans to that of ghettoized Jews.
It also would have given us the language to describe what is happening in Gaza now.
The ghetto is being liquidated.”
"Supporters of Gessen, who is Jewish, and whose grandfather and great-grandfather were among family members murdered by the Nazis,
have been quick to point out the irony of suspending a prize awarded in memory of Arendt,
the German-born Jewish-American historian, philosopher and antitotalitarian political theorist who coined the phrase
“the banality of evil”"
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Samantha Rose Hill, author of the profile Hannah Arendt and editor of Arendt’s collected poems, called it
“an affront to Hannah Arendt’s memory.
By their own logic, the Heinrich Böll Foundation needs to cancel the Hannah Arendt prize altogether.”
Rose Hill
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