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The Palestine Exception to Free Speech Rarely Ends with Palestine
Description
A list of ways to help Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
This week’s zoom call will be at our regular time, Friday at 1 PM. Our guest will be Philip Gordon, a scholar at the Brookings Institution and former National Security Advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris. We’ll talk about the Biden-Harris administration’s actions regarding Israel and Gaza, Kamala Harris’s statements about Gaza during the campaign, how she might have governed as president and what policies Democrats should pursue toward Israel-Palestine in the future.
Cited in Today’s Video
Bari Weiss pulls a 60 Minutes report on Trump administration deportations to El Salvador.
Donald Trump has reportedly said he expects better treatment by CBS now that David Ellenson and Weiss are in charge.
Weiss’ Free Press co-hosted a Trump administration inauguration party with Elon Musk’s X.
Weiss’ resignation letter from The New York Times.
The ACLU denounced Weiss’ efforts to punish pro-Palestinian professors when she was a student at Columbia.
The Trump administration leaked the news that it was withholding funds from Columbia to Weiss’ Free Press.
Weiss’ support for Israel is reportedly one of the reasons Ellison hired her at CBS.
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 talks to immigration expert Samah Sisay about how Trump’s new travel ban targets Palestinians.
Tareq Baconi on how the genocide in Gaza radicalized the world.
On January 6, I’ll be speaking on a panel at B’nai Jeshurun synagogue in Manhattan.
Reader Response
Benjamin Langer responded to last week’s video about banning the phrase “globalize the intifada.” He writes:
The word in the phrase that troubles me is not “intifada,” but “globalize.” If, as you say, “intifada” can mean a call for either violent or non-violent uprising, then globalizing the intifada could mean bringing civil disobedience and political pressure to international spaces, or could mean bringing violence to international Israel-associated targets. It’s not a stretch for many people to consider a synagogue with a JNF billboard outside, or a demonstration like Toronto’s 50,000-strong (roughly 1/4 of Toronto’