The profundity of evil

[...]earlier this year the phrase was employed by a former State Department official who resigned over the war in Gaza. In an interview, Annelle Sheline, who served in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, criticized her former colleagues for not speaking out against Israel's suppos...

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Published in:	The New Criterion Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 1 - 15
Main Author:	Murray, Douglas
Format:	Trade Publication Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York Foundation for Cultural Review 01-11-2024
Subjects:	Arendt, Hannah Chauvin, Derek Coronaviruses Floyd, George Good & evil Holocaust Human rights Neoliberalism Subtitles & subtitling Trump, Donald J Gaza Strip Israel Jerusalem Israel
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Summary:	[...]earlier this year the phrase was employed by a former State Department official who resigned over the war in Gaza. In an interview, Annelle Sheline, who served in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, criticized her former colleagues for not speaking out against Israel's supposed human rights violations, saying, For someone in that position . . . it perhaps gets to things like the banality of evil. To begin, there are her criticisms of Eichmann, all of which betray the gullibility of the woman in the court and say next to nothing about the man in the dock. [...]she writes that she can well imagine that an authentic controversy might have arisen over the subtitle of [this] book; for when I speak of the banality of evil, I do so only on the strictly factual level, pointing to a phenomenon which stared one in the face at the trial.
ISSN:	0734-0222 2163-6265