2023-10-20 10:45:03
“The case of the Palestinian writer Adania Shibli confirms that the European Union is not the cradle of freedom as it would like us to believe. The Frankfurt fair had already humiliated itself by censoring Carlo Rovelli. Today he chooses to hit the bottom and dig with his arms like a whirlwind.” Professor Alessandro Orsini said this to time.news, commenting on the prize denied to the Palestinian writer Adania Shibli, which the author should have received during the Frankfurt Book Fair. “I have the impression – continues Orsini – that Germany has not yet fully come to terms with its authoritarian past. Once upon a time it discriminated against Jews, today it discriminates against Palestinians. But, from a sociological point of view, it is always discrimination towards ethnic and religious minorities.”
For the professor, whose presence at the Turin Book Fair was at the center of a controversial case last year at the height of the Ukraine-Russia war, later clarified by the director Nicola Lagioia, “the intolerance of the German ruling class dies hard and emerges periodically as a karst river. The Frankfurt Fair puts us to shame. I express my solidarity with Adania Shibli and all the Palestinians unfairly discriminated against in Europe under the presidency of Ursula von der Leyen, the worst ever”, concludes Orsini.
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