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Award ceremony suspended after writer compares Gaza to Nazi-era Jewish ghettos

www.theguardian.com Award ceremony suspended after writer compares Gaza to Nazi-era Jewish ghettos

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

Award ceremony suspended after writer compares Gaza to Nazi-era Jewish ghettos

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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