The German Heinrich Böll Foundation recently withdrew its funding of the "Hannah Arendt Award for Political Thought" because it had been granted to the Russian-American writer of Jewish faith, Masha Gessen, due to an article entitled "In the Shadow of the Holocaust" that she had written for The New Yorker. In it, Gessen, a descendant of Holocaust survivors, denounced the war on Gaza and compared the Strip to the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.