Aharon Shabtai

Playing on Zola's famous letter denouncing the anti-Semitism of the French government throughout the Dreyfus affair, Aharon Shabtai's title, J'Accuse, can be taken literally: it charges his government and his people with crimes against the humanity of their neighbours. Here we find snipers shooting children, spin-masters trying to whitewash blood baths, ammunition "distributed like bars of chocolate," and "technicians of...