From the broad support for the uncommitted movement, to calls to “vote blue no matter who” in order to “preserve American democracy,” navigating the electoral landscape at this moment presents unprecedented challenges. Together we’ll explore these questions with #PeterBeinart, #LaylaElabed, #MashaGessen, and #WaleedShahid, hosted by #MehdiHasan.
5 stars from me for "The Man Without A Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin" by Masha Gessen:
As an American, this was a fascinating and educational read. It fills in the blanks left by our myopic media and provides context to events that were quite mysterious and unexpected at the time that I was living through them.
To have finished the book, which closes describing scenes in Moscow in December 2011, when Alexei Navalny was leading hopeful protests against the Putin regime, on the same day that the news of Navalny's death in prison reached me, seems cruel, but entirely fitting. In these passages, Gessen notes that Putin and his allies were slow to recognize the danger they were in, and predicted that when they did, they would lash out violently, like a cornered animal. Perhaps with a terrorist attack, like the ones the KGB engineered against the Russian people in 1999 - 2000, when Putin was first running for president. But no. Putin started a war.
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Never underestimate the fact that HBS is a political foundation, that depends on Die #Grünen, who are part of a government that is a steadfast ally of USA and Israel, both of whom waging war against the people of #Gaza
HBS is well funded by state funds and other donors - 83 Mill. Euro 2022 - what might help to toe the line of Staatsraison even against better judgement - this is what #MashaGessen represents in looking at the plight of Palestinians without colonial eurocentric bias
Hannah-Arendt-Preis trotz Kritik an Autorin Gessen verliehen
Der Hannah-Arendt-Preis für politisches Denken ist ungeachtet massiver Kritik an Masha Gessen verliehen worden. Der Bremer Senat und die Böll-Stiftung hatten die Teilnahme aus Protest gegen Äußerungen der Autorin zum Nahost-Konflikt abgesagt.
Masha Gessen was slated to receive the prestigious Hannah Arendt prize in Germany today, but because she has published a piece in which she compares Gaza to the Warsaw ghetto, the ceremony has been postponed due to pressure from one of the award's sponsors.
Amy Goodman interviews Gessen, who reminds Goodman that she (Gessen) is Jewish and grew up in a family with Holocaust survivors.
"You always have to be asking the question of whether crimes against humanity, the definitions of which came out of the Holocaust, are recurring. And Israel has waged an incredibly successful campaign at setting — not only setting the Holocaust outside of history, but setting itself aside from the optics of international humanitarian law, in part by weaponizing the politics of memory and the politics of the Holocaust."
Ich empfehle allen, die sich mit dem Artikel von Masha Gessen im New Yorker und dann dem Rückzug der @boell aus der Verleihung des Hannah-Arendt-Preises an #MashaGessen beschäftigt haben, sehr diesen Podcast mit Masha Gessen. Danach aufgenommen.
Before it was renamed Likud, Benjamin Netanyahu's party was called the Freedom Party. In 1948 Hannah Arendt described it as being "closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy, and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties."
In the West journalists and writers are being punished and censored for pointing out the McCarthy-like atmosphere when anyone dares to criticize Israel.
'“The problem is that criticism of Israel is often seen as antisemitic, which I think is the real antisemitic scandal. This overlooks the actual antisemitism.”'
'“Hannah Arendt wouldn’t get the Hannah Arendt award in Germany today.”'
"The irony of calling for the suspension of a prize named after an anti-Totalitarian political theorist in order to appease the authoritarian government of a rogue state currently committing genocide against an already-subjugated people seems to be lost"
As a German I think that #MashaGessen's New Yorker essay is probably one of the most relevant pieces recently written about all that's wrong with German #Holocaust remembrance.
That the city of #Bremen and the Heinrich @boell Foundation (of all people) cancelled her #HannahArendt price award ceremony is shameful and cowardly.
Masha Gessen’s Hannah Arendt Prize has been canceled because of their essay on Gaza
In the New Yorker essay, published on December 9, Gessen criticizes Germany’s Israel policy (including the Bundestag’s controversial BDS resolution, which condemns the Israel boycott movement as anti-Semitic) and its politics of remembrance, and compares the plight of today’s besieged Gazans to that of the ghettoized Jews in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.
I'm listening now, and it's possibly the least transphobic thing I've ever heard, but I can definitely see how it might have been seen out of context on #Twitter