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Date(s) - Wednesday, July 1, 2026
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
“Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning”
Peter Beinart argues that Jewish communal life is shaped by a dominant narrative of persecution and victimhood—one that obscures the richness of Jewish religious tradition and distorts understandings of Israel and Palestine. In the aftermath of Gaza, he contends, Jewish texts and authors have been used to justify mass killing and starvation, making it urgent for Jews to tell a different story and reconsider what it means to be Jewish. Beinart envisions an alternative grounded in equality rather than supremacy, where Israeli Jewish and Palestinian safety are understood as interconnected rather than opposed. Drawing on personal experience, deep historical knowledge, moral and political insight, and a clear vision for the future, he offers a powerful reckoning with Jewish identity after Gaza.
Peter Beinart is Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the Newmark School of Journalism at the City University of New York. He is a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times, Editor-at-Large of Jewish Currents, an MSNOW political commentator and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace. He writes the Beinart Notebook newsletter on Substack.Com. His fourth book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, which was published by Knopf in 2025, won the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction.
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