Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek — whose father survived the Holocaust — has condemned Israeli occupation in the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem, arguing that Western discourse on a two-state solution in the Middle East amounts to a "lie".
The 79-year-old writer, a major German-language intellectual figure, has previously spoken out against Israel's war on Gaza.
In the text, entitled "In a promised land", Jelinek criticised talk about a Palestinian state "as though one did not know that it can never exist along the current path".
"Yet with this unspoken lie, thought itself also collapses; it shatters against the circumstances, against the land grabbing" of the West Bank, Gaza, and Jerusalem, she wrote in the text published on her website last Friday.
She added she feared "ethnic cleansing" because "where the land is lacking, people themselves become meaningless".
She also referred to "plans" for the land, "perhaps a famous resort straight from the brains of (US President Donald) Trump and (his son-in-law Jared) Kushner".
Trump has described Gaza - most of which Israel invaded after October 2023 - as a "beautiful piece of property".
She also called for European Union sanctions over illegal Israeli settler violence against Palestinians and land confiscations.
Jelinek received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004.
