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Where are Our Jews?
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Our Zoom call this week will be at the usual time: Friday at Noon EST.
Our guests will be James Zogby, President and Co-Founder of the Arab American Institute, and Abdelnasser Rashid, a Palestinian-American State Representative from Illinois. We’ll talk about how the war in Gaza is affecting Arab Americans and whether they will vote for Joe Biden this fall.
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.
There will be no newsletter on Monday, February 19 or Zoom interview on Friday, February 23.
Sources Cited in this Video
Benjamin Netanyahu orders the Israeli military to make plans to invade Rafah.
Edward Kaplan’s biography of Abraham Joshua Heschel, Spiritual Radical.
I searched the following X (Twitter) accounts (@AIPAC, @ADL, @AJCGlobal, @StandWithUs, @OrthodoxUnion, @OUAdvocacy, @RCArabbinical, @URJorg, @JTSVoice, @HUCJIR, @Conf_of_Pres, @jfederations, @HillelIntl, @RRC_edu, @YUNews, @HolocaustMuseum, @simonwiesenthal) of establishment American Jewish political and religious Jewish institutions to see if any of them had used any of the following words or phrases (“Rafah,” “famine,” “starvation,” “starve,” “amputate,” “amputee,” “rubble,” “disease,” “cholera,” “diarrhea,” “bread,” “water,” “humanitarian disaster”) since October 7, 2023. None had.
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!), Alex Kane writes about the buffer zone Israel is building inside the Gaza Strip.
Marshall Ganz recounts being investigated for antisemitism at Harvard.
A rabbinical student challenges American Jewish leaders for supporting the war.
The father of a Palestinian-American stabbing victim challenges Joe Biden.
On March 6, I’ll be speaking at the University of Texas at Austin.
See you on Friday at Noon,
Peter
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:
So, Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly asked the Israeli military to begin planning its invasion of Rafah. Now, Rafah is this tiny little area of the Gaza Strip right