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A poem by the German author and Nobel Prize laureate Günter Grass has caused the extreme right wing Israeli Minister of Internal Affairs Eli Yishai to bar Grass from entering Israel.
The moderate centre-left Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz writes in an editorial that it is “characteristic of dark regimes like those in Iran or North Korea” to react against a poem in the way that Yishai has done. Such is the diversity of positions in Israel, which currently has a government with right-wing extremists in both the interior and foreign portfolios.
