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Award-winning Israeli writer Gideon Levy was bestowed the Prize of Democracy for “devoting his beingness to the hunt for and defence of the truth,” from Athens Mayor Haris Doukas astatine the Athens Democracy Forum connected Wednesday.
Announced September 25, the grant recognizes Levy’s “unwavering and courageous committedness to peace, justice, quality rights and state of the press.” Levy is widely known for his Haaretz column, “Twilight Zone,” which chronicles Palestinian beingness under occupation.
Speaking astatine the forum, organized by the Democracy & Culture Foundation and The New York Times successful concern with the City of Athens, Doukas called Hamas’ October 7 onslaught “horrendous” but said its “ruthless cognition cannot beryllium seen arsenic a limitless close to self-defense.”
Levy dedicated the grant to each journalists reporting from Gaza, saying they uncover truths hidden by Israeli media. He referred to the war arsenic “genocide,” arguing that Israeli sum reduces Gaza’s colonisation to “a fewer terrorists” while ignoring civilian suffering.
“By the extremity of today’s event, different 50 radical will beryllium dead,” Levy said, adding that the violence had reached “a climax with the greenish airy the authorities received from Trump.”
He besides urged Athens not to region pro-Palestinian graffiti from its streets, calling it “a badge of grant for the city.”
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