Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen is a Jewish journalist described as having lost family members in the Holocaust. They explicitly compare Gaza to Nazi-era ghettos in their essay and argue against treating the Holocaust as a 'singular event,' using it as a basis for critique of Israeli policies in Gaza. They have publicly criticized the conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism and described the isolation and harm imposed on Gaza as comparable to historical atrocities, which aligns with anti-Zionist thought.