Gunter Grass became ‘persona non grata’ for 2012 poem exposing Israeli nuclear hypocrisy

Gunter Grass became ‘persona non grata’ for 2012 poem exposing Israeli nuclear hypocrisy

By Philip Weiss
NYT obit for Gunter Grass puts his 2012 poem criticizing Israel in paragraph 4, ahead of his global bestseller about Germany during the war, The Tin Drum. Grass was the "conscience of a generation," BBC said today, but he became "virtually a persona non grata" after the poem.
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