Episode Details

Our Zoom call this week will be at a special time: Thursday at 1 PM EST. There will be no zoom call on the week of Friday, December 22 or 29.

Our guest will be Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute and the author of three highly acclaimed books on the relationship between the United States, Iran, and Israel. We’ll talk about the response by Iran and its allies to October 7 and the risks that Israel’s Gaza war could convulse the entire Middle East.

As usual, 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, Omar Barghouti, Benny Morris, Noam Chomsky, and Bret Stephens.

Sources Cited in this Video

CSPAN video of the Congressional hearings on campus antisemitism.

Uprisings against Arab governments are called intifadas too.

Elise Stefanik’s flirtation with Great Replacement Theory.

Marwan Barghouti on the motivations for the second intifada.

How pro-Israel pundits and organizations use allegations of antisemitism to avoid talking about what Israel does to Palestinians.

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!) Mari Cohen examines the way liberal Zionist groups have responded to Israel’s war in Gaza.

John Judis on the value and limits of calling Israel a “settler-colonial” state.

Mouin Rabbani on Israel’s role in boosting Hamas.

Robert Pape and Tony Karon and Daniel Levy on why Israel is losing the war.

Most American scholars of Middle East studies censor themselves when talking about Israel-Palestine.

Last week, I spoke at a Chanukah-themed ceasefire rally in New York.

I also talked to Joy Reid on MSNBC about why Israel’s war won’t make Israelis safe.

See you on Thursday at 1 PM,

Peter

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