Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Mon, 10/08/2012 - 19:45
Stunning the audience, activists burst into the hall shouting slogans, throwing leaflets and carrying banner condemning JNF complicity in “ethnic cleansing.”
Whatever the literary qualities of Günter Grass’s poem, it testifies to his lingering literary eminence that it has engendered such a colossal backlash, to the point that he has now been banned from Israel.
