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> He repeatedly condemned the Israelis’ treatment of the Palestinians. When, in 1982, the Israelis stood by as the Christian Phalangists massacred the Palestinians at Sabra and Shatila, he called for the resignation of #ArielSharon and #MenachemBegin. “Everybody is somebody’s Jew,” he told a reporter, Filippo Gentiloni, from the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto, and he cited the abuse of Poland by the Russians and the Germans.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/who-said-what
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Who Said What

This is a complicated story, but here goes. Eleven years ago, for The New Yorker, I wrote a review of a biography of Primo Levi called “The Double …

The New Yorker
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> Levi’s struggle against Fascism always had the Universal as its primary focus...
> In reality, and despite appearances to the contrary, repudiation of and contempt for the moral value of work was and is essential to the Fascist myth in all its forms. Under all militarism, colonialism, and corporatism lies the precise determination of one class to exploit the work of others, and at the same time to deny them any human worth.

https://mondoweiss.net/2016/07/wiesel-primo-contrasts/

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Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi: A study in contrasts

It is hard not to compare the careers of late Elie Wiesel and the Italian-Sephardi Primo Levi who both survived the hell of Auschwitz, but who took very different paths to express their witness.

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