Episode Details

Our Zoom call this week will be at the usual time: Friday at Noon EST.

Our guest will be Fadi Quran, a Senior Campaigner at Avaaz, a Popular Struggle community organizer in the West Bank and one of the most eloquent voices I know about the moral principles undergirding the struggle for Palestinian freedom. Since October 7, his writing has been desperate and enraged, but never lost its ethical core. We’ll talk about what it’s like to be a Palestinian watching Western governments tolerate—if not assist—Gaza’s destruction.

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 Thomas Friedman, Ilhan Omar, Rashid Khalidi, Benny Morris, Noam Chomsky, and Bret Stephens.

Sources Cited in this Video

Israel’s charge that UNRWA employees participated in the October 7 massacre.

Israel’s longstanding effort to abolish UNRWA.

The Biden administration’s decision to suspend aid to UNRWA.

UNRWA’s role in combatting the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.

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!), three aid workers describe life in Gaza.

A few weeks ago, on one of our Friday zoom calls, I interviewed Musallam Abukhalil, a doctor in Gaza. After treating thousands of displaced people, he has now been forced to flee his own home and is living in a tent in Rafah. He’s desperately trying to leave Gaza, and a friend has established a Gofundme page to help. If you can, please do.

In 972Mag, an anonymous Palestinian journalist in Gaza asks hard questions about both Israel and Hamas.

Israeli intelligence believes the death counts reported by Gaza’s ministry of health are reliable.

For Holocaust Memorial Day, incredible photos of resistance.

Last week, I spoke at Trinity-St. Paul's United Church in Toronto (here’s a video excerpt of that talk) and talked to the Parallax podcast.

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