The San Diego World Affairs Council is co-sponsoring the in-person and Zoom presentation by acclaimed author and columnist Peter Beinart. Beinart will discuss his new book “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza” with SDSU Professors Jonathan Graubart and Manal Swairjo. The book confronts the dominant “pro-Israel” narrative, which features a recurring Jewish experience of persecution and victimhood that endures even amid Israel’s destruction of Gaza. That narrative, Beinart argues, both warps our understanding of Israel-Palestine and erases the richness of the Jewish experience. He imagines an alternate narrative of what it means to be a Jew and how to reckon with injustices perpetrated in the name of the Jewish people. In this future, Israeli Jews have the right to equality, not supremacy, while Jewish and Palestinian safety and dignity are co-dependent, not mutually exclusive.
Admission/Cost: FREE Please Register
Location:
San Diego State University
Arts and Letters - 201
San Diego, CA
Monday, February 17 - 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
