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March 15, 2024

Howard Jacobson on the Moral Narcissism at the Academy Awards

It takes no courage to castigate the Jews.

On Sunday night, the director and screenwriter Jonathan Glazer provided a particularly egregious example of the moral solipsism of which Ruth Wisse speaks by using his acceptance of an Oscar to lambast Israel and its supporters for “hijacking” the Shoah to justify all sorts of crimes. Glazer received the award for The Zone of Interest, his film about Auschwitz—a fact that also supports Wisse’s arguments about the pitfalls of Holocaust memorialization.

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