Gaza War’s Critics in Crosshairs as Israelis Back Offensive

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Israeli author Etgar Keret is finding his words come with a cost nowadays.

Keret, whose surreal short stories and graphic novels won him the Prime Minister’s award for literature in his homeland, was inundated with critical and abusive mail after arguing that Israel has grown increasingly intolerant to discourse condemning the military in a column for the Hebrew newspaper Yediot Ahronot and the New Yorker magazine.