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FAIR Dec 15, 2023

There is a special irony in a prize in the name of German Jewish philosopher and journalist Hannah Arendt, whose work on the rise of German fascism is essential, being withheld from another Jewish journalist for writing about the rise of authoritarianism.

https://fair.org/home/gessens-cancellation-cant-go-unchallenged/

Gessen’s Cancellation Can’t Go Unchallenged - FAIR

Gessen, a queer Jew, is being punished by the German political machine for being too open about the nature of global authoritarianism.

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@FAIR Hannah Arendt (New Yorker, 12/9/23) called Israel’s Herut party—a forerunner of Likud—”a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy, and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties.” Such opinions would likely disqualify her for the Hannah Arendt Prize.