Episode Details

Our Zoom call this week will be at the regular time: Friday at Noon EST. (I’ve decided to stop mentioning Friday’s guests at the beginning of these Monday videos.)

Our guests this week will be Diana Buttu and Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man. Diana is a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and a former spokesperson for the Palestine Liberation Organization. Emily is a Jewish Israeli human rights lawyer. They’ll talk about the challenges and opportunities that this terrible war poses for Palestinians and Jews who want to work together on behalf of Palestinian freedom and mutual coexistence.

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

Eighty percent of Gaza’s people have been forced from their homes.

The Director-General of the World Health Organization calls conditions in Gaza’s hospitals “unimaginable.”

Biden officials warn Israel about its actions in Gaza.

Joe Biden’s longstanding opposition to conditioning military aid to Israel.

Congressional Democrats debate conditioning aid.

When Benjamin Netanyahu said “America can be easily moved.”

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!), Dan Berger examines the call from families of some Israeli hostages for an “all for all” swap of Israeli captives and Palestinian prisoners.

+972 Magazine’s blockbuster report on how the Israeli military loosened its rules to allow more killing of civilians in Gaza.

A Jewish Israeli teacher recounts being jailed for criticizing the Gaza war.

Iyad Baghdadi on how to think (and not think) about decolonization in Israel-Palestine.

Rabbi Shai Held on Jews and the left after October 7.

Listen Now