Published: 28 May 2016
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Grossman recently met with Moment senior editor Marilyn Cooper in Washington DC to discuss the situation in the Middle East and the interplay between art and politics. “Literature can remind us that the enemy is not solely the enemy. He is another human being who became the enemy. The writer’s job is to make him less simply ‘the enemy’ and more of a full human being. We do this for our own sake, not just for his sake. Part of the problem in the current situation is a cruel indifference to the suffering of others. Israelis are unable to burden themselves with the wounds of others; they have become experts at not seeing other people’s suffering. Empathy is the best service a writer provides to such a society. Literature allows the story of the hated Other to become real and exposes injustice.”
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