{"id":3848,"date":"2025-08-01T19:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/israeli-novelist-david-grossman-slams-war-on-gaza-as-genocide\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T19:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:13:12","slug":"israeli-novelist-david-grossman-slams-war-on-gaza-as-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/israeli-novelist-david-grossman-slams-war-on-gaza-as-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli novelist David Grossman slams war on Gaza as ‘genocide’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Israeli author David Grossman. — AFP\/File<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Award-winning Israeli author and peace activist David Grossman has labelled Tel Aviv’s military campaign in Gaza as “genocide,” a term he admitted to using with a “broken heart”.<\/p>\n

His stark pronouncement comes amidst escalating global concern over starvation in the besieged Palestinian territory and just days after a major Israeli human rights group also employed the same term.<\/p>\n

In an interview published Friday with the Italian daily La Repubblica,<\/em> Grossman, a highly respected literary figure, revealed his reluctance to use the term previously.<\/p>\n

“For many years, I refused to use that term: ‘genocide,'” the prominent writer said. “But now, after the images I have seen and after talking to people who were there, I can’t help using it.”<\/p>\n

Grossman told the paper he was using the word “with immense pain and with a broken heart.”<\/p>\n

“This word is an avalanche: once you say it, it just gets bigger, like an avalanche. And it adds even more destruction and suffering,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Grossman’s works, which have been translated into dozens of languages, have won many international prizes.<\/p>\n

He also won Israel’s top literary prize in 2018, the Israel Prize for Literature, for his work spanning more than three decades.<\/p>\n

He said it was “devastating” to “put the words ‘Israel’ and ‘famine’ together” because of the Holocaust and our “supposed sensitivity to the suffering of humanity.”<\/p>\n

The celebrated author has long been a critic of the Israeli government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Israeli novelist David Grossman slams war on Gaza as ‘genocide’<\/div>\n

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Israeli author David Grossman. — AFP\/File Award-winning Israeli author and peace activist David Grossman has labelled Tel Aviv’s military campaign in Gaza as “genocide,” a term he admitted to using with a “broken heart”. His stark pronouncement comes amidst escalating global concern over starvation in the besieged Palestinian territory and just days after a major…<\/p>\n

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