Tag: Gaza
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What would Franz Kafka think about Israel and Gaza?
Franz Kafka died in 1924. The State of Israel did not yet exist. The Holocaust had not happened. Neither had the Arab-Israeli wars, October 7, or the destruction and enormous human suffering in Gaza. Yet Kafka’s life, politics, Jewish identity and literature make him a fascinating figure through whom to examine Israel and Gaza. He…
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Sympathy for Holocaust and Gaza
At first glance, many people assume that when the concentration camps were liberated in 1945, the world immediately fell into collective moral shock. The narrative often suggests that once the photographs emerged, once the skeletal survivors stood before Allied cameras, universal compassion followed. However, history tells a far more uncomfortable story. In reality, sympathy did…