Episode Details

For the foreseeable future, our Zoom calls will be held at a new time: Friday at 11 AM Eastern.

Our guest this week will be Jamil Dakwar, a human rights lawyer, adjunct professor at New York University, and former senior attorney with Adalah, which advocates for the rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel. He’ll be speaking in his personal capacity. We’ll talk about the case against Israel at the International Court of Justice and the case against Israeli and Hamas leaders at the International Criminal Court.

Paid subscribers will get the link this Tuesday and the video the following week. They’ll also gain access to our library of past Zoom interviews with guests like Rashid Khalidi, Thomas Friedman, Ilhan Omar, Benny Morris, Noam Chomsky, and Bret Stephens.

Sources Cited in this Video

Things to Read

(Maybe this should be obvious, but I link to articles and videos I find provocative and significant, not necessarily ones I entirely agree with.)

In Jewish Currents (subscribe!), Raphael Magarik talks with Maya Wind about her book, Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom.

Like so many people with family in Gaza, the political analyst Khalil Sayegh has endured unthinkable agony since this war began. He’s seen his father and sister killed. He’s trying to bring his remaining family members to safety. If you can help, please do. Please also consider helping the Alshawa family, which is sheltering in central Gaza and hoping to evacuate to safety.

For the Foundation for Middle East Peace’s Occupied Thoughts podcast, I talked to Sapir Sluzker Amran about being a queer, feminist, Mizrachi activist in Israel—and about her decision to go to the border with Gaza to challenge people preventing the delivery of aid.

Muhammad Shehada on the danger of selective empathy.

Michael Sfard on the failure of the Israeli media.

Mehdi Hasan vs Jonathan Schanzer on the ICC’s warrants against Israeli leaders. 

Former Israeli combat soldier Ariel Bernstein on how Israel is fighting in Gaza.

Imagine if US leaders talked like Irish leaders about Gaza.

M.J. Rosenberg has renamed his Substack (and subscribers must resubscribe).

See you on Friday at 11 AM,

Peter

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:

Hi. So, I’ve been thinking about why the Biden administration has made the decisions that it’s made on this war. Decisions that seem t