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The Campus Protesters Are Winning— and Why That Means Greater Repression to Come
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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 Lily Greenberg Call, former Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff at the Department of Interior, who last week resigned to protest US policy in Gaza. She is the first Jewish Biden administration staffer to resign over the war. For ten years, until 2022, she was a youth activist for AIPAC. Her resignation constitutes perhaps the most remarkable illustration yet of the speed with which many young American Jews are abandoning previously held views about Israel and joining the struggle for Palestinian freedom.
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
The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee’s (SNCC) impact on Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
Senator J.D. Vance proposes Viktor Orban’s takeover of Hungary’s universities as a model for the US.
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.)
On the Jewish Currents (subscribe!) podcast, I talked with Arielle Angel, Mari Cohen, and Daniel May about Zionism and anti-Zionism.
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.
What Israeli leaders mean when they talk about Gaza’s future.
How American universities are purging pro-Palestinian faculty.
A child of Holocaust survivors speaks about why he’s protesting the war.
An Israeli risks her life to try to stop Israelis from preventing aid from entering Gaza.
Rick Perlstein on why the current crackdown on campus protest is worse than the 1960s.
See you on Friday at 11 AM,
Peter
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:
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