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Cited in Today’s Video

USAID, Cindy McCain of the World Food Program, and even Israel’s own officials refute the claim that Israel had to shut off aid to Gaza—and shut down the UN food distribution system— because Hamas was systematically stealing aid.

Nir Hasson’s report in Haaretz on Israel’s starvation of Gaza.

Gideon Shimoni’s Community and Conscience: The Jews in Apartheid South Africa.

Rabbi Yochanan Ben Zakkai’s blessing to his students in Tractate Berakhot of the Babylonian Talmud.

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!), Elisheva Goldberg writes about the Knesset’s effort to impeach Israel’s most prominent Palestinian legislator, Ayman Odeh.

I spoke to Public Radio’s “The World” about antisemitism and on CNN about the starvation in Gaza.

For the Foundation for Middle East Peace’s “Occupied Thoughts” podcast, I talked to University of California at Berkeley historian Ussama Makdisi about being targeted by Congressional Republicans.

Alonso Gurmendi on the claim that Israel isn’t committing genocide because it could be killing more people.

When American Jewish groups called out a genocide, in Myanmar.

Correction

In last week’s video I said that Kishinev (now called Chishinau), site of the infamous 1903 pogrom, was in Ukraine. That was wrong. As my friend, the political scientist Rajan Men