When Even Billionaires Are Afraid to Criticize Trump, What Does That Mean for the Rest of US?
Our call this week, for paid subscribers, will be on Friday at 1 PM Eastern, our new regular time. Our guest will be Muzaffar Chishti, Senior Fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, and one of America’s foremost experts on immigration policy. We’ll talk about Donald Trump’s plans for the mass deportation of undocumented—and perhaps even legal— immigrants. We’ll talk about the human cost of such a roundup and what it might do to the United States.
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My New Book
Knopf will publish my new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, on January 28 of next year. I hope the book will contribute, in some small way, to changing the conversation among Jews about what is being done in our name. But I’m keenly aware of two things: First, Jewish voices like mine usually get more attention in the US than do Palestinian ones. Second, while I’m publishing my book, Palestinians in Gaza— and beyond— are suffering in unspeakable ways.
So, while I hope you consider buying my book, I hope you also consider buying a book by a Palestinian author. I’m grateful to readers for offering their favorites. One reader recently recommended Naomi Shihab Nye’s young adult novel, Habibi, about Liyana, a Palestinian-American girl from St. Louis whose family returns to West Bank, a place she struggles to make home.
Readers have also suggested additional charities working in Gaza. One is Donkey Saddle, which “has been providing ongoing support for over 15 extended families” in Gaza.
Sources Cited in this Video
Scott Jennings joins the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times.
Americans who fear Trump administration reprisals are preparing to leave the country.
Czeslaw Milosz’s The Captive Mind.
Eyal Press’ Beautiful Souls.
Samantha Power on Upstanders.
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!), I wrote about how Donald Trump’s first term predicts his policy toward Israel-Palestine in his second.
The New York Review of Books interviews Rashid Khalidi about the destruction of Gaza.
Shaul Magid on the future of the American Jewish left.
Irish lawyer Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh on the women of Gaza.
Last week, I talked to Brian Lehrer on WNYC about the International Criminal Court’s warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu.
For the Foundation for Middle Peace, I interviewed Eyal Weizman of Forensic Architecture about their report, A Cartography of Genocide.
I also spoke about Gaza and the American debate about it at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
See you on Friday,
Peter
Note: For a transcript of today’s video, just head to this page on your web browser and click the “transcript” button just under the video.
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