This video is not transcribed. Here’s the Jewish Currents essay on which it is based:
https://jewishcurrents.org/israels-ascendant-far-right-cant-be-understood-by-analogy
Friday Call:
Our guests for this Friday’s Zoom call, to talk about the ideological character of the next Israeli government, will be Dr. Raef Zreik, a Palestinian political philosopher based at Jerusalem’s Van Leer Institute, and Avrum Burg, the former speaker of the Knesset, and son of Yosef Burg, who led the Religious Zionist Party, the ancestor of the party that Ben-Gvir helps lead today.
Things to Read:
I wrote a New York Times column this week on the growing climate of cold war conformity in Washington.
A 2016 study by Dr. Shibley Telhami that showed how popular some of Ben-Gvir’s most extreme ideas are.
The phrase “Jewish supremacy,” which I discussed in a recent podcast, is gaining currency. I think that’s good. Here it’s used almost casually by Aluf Benn, the editor-in-chief of Haaretz, to describe the nature of the Israeli state.
If you’re interested in the intellectual history of American politics in the 1980s and 1990s, this conversation between Andrew Sullivan and Fareed Zakaria about their ideological evolution from youth to adulthood is pretty interesting.
Last week I attributed the phrase “socialism of fools” to Karl Marx. That’s probably wrong.
See you on Friday,
Peter
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