American photographer Nan Goldin opens exhibition in Berlin with fiery speech against Israel

BERLIN (AP) — American photographer and activist Nan Goldin has used a speech at the opening of her exhibition in Germany to condemn Israel’s war in Gaza.

Goldin, 71, said Friday she wanted to use her retrospective show at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin “as a platform to amplify my position of moral outrage” at what she described as “genocide in Gaza and Lebanon.”

“My grandparents escaped pogroms in Russia. I was brought up knowing about the Nazi Holocaust. What I see in Gaza reminds me of the pogroms that my grandparents escaped,” Goldin said.

Goldin, who is of Jewish origin, was born in Washington D.C. and is a leading artist and

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