In Germany, acclaimed Russian American writer Masha Gessen received the prestigious Hannah Arendt Prize on Saturday in a scaled-down ceremony. The event was supposed to take place last week in Bremen’s City Hall, but award sponsors and the city of Bremen withdrew after Gessen compared Gaza to the Warsaw Ghetto in a recent New Yorker article. Gessen, who is Jewish, spoke earlier this week at another event hosted by the prize organizers.

Masha Gessen: “The biggest difference between Gaza and the Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe is that Gazans, many Gazans, most Gazans, are still alive, and the world still has an opportunity to do something about it.”

Click here to see our recent interview with Masha Gessen in Bremen.