Thanks to those of you who came to my terrific conversation with Dr. Debra Shushan. We covered a lot of ground—from the recent awful incident with Scott Weiner at a San Francisco Pride event, to AIPAC, to the new Israel-US defense partnership that Congress is considering, to the intersection between US and Israeli politics and more. I hope you’ll find that this was a respectful, nuanced, and thoughtful discussion, as well as an explainer for why I can’t keep Israeli/Palestinian issues out of my newsletter completely, much as I might wish to.
You can follow Debra here. I hope you’ll also subscribe!
Watch her interview with Omer Bartov here. Bartov’s book, which I consider a must-read, is here.
Debra’s book recs are: Rashid Khalidi, “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine” and Hussein Agha & Robert Malley, “Tomorrow Is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine.”
The sign-up for the email roundup by Laura Friedman that Debra talked about is here. If folks would like to check out the roundup so they can decide if they’d like to sign up, here’s the archive.
A New Policy’s website (they advocate for an improved US policy on Israel/Palestine) is here and their policy page about Section 219 is here. Debra’s fantastic podcast discussion with Josh Paul of a New Policy is here.
The script for your Senators about Section 1217 is here:
Enjoy!
