Gessen received a German literary prize in a ceremony that was delayed & scaled down in reaction to an article comparing Gaza to Nazi German ghettoes.

One of those was the dynamic between German star Dirk Nowitzki and the kid coming up from the mean streets of Kenosha, Nick Van Exel.

Masha Gessen was due to receive the Hannah Arendt Prize, but it was suspended after the Heinrich Böll Foundation criticized their New Yorker piece comparing Gaza to Nazi-era Jewish ghettos.

“The ghetto is being liquidated,” the article added. The ghettos in German-occupied countries during World War II were open-air prisons where Jews were killed, starved and died from diseases.

The presidents of three nations join Holocaust survivors and their descendants to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

One of the last surviving members of the Warsaw Ghetto resistance has told CNN the world must never forget the bravery of those who stood up to the Nazis, 80 years after World War II’s largest ...

“The ghetto is being liquidated," the article added. The ghettos in German-occupied countries during World War II were open-air prisons where Jews were killed, starved and died from diseases.