Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 7 pm Palestine time
Prof. Peter Beinart (Craig Newmark graduate school of journalism at the City University of New York), in conversation with Assaf Kfoury, Professor of Computer Science at Boston University and member of the BLS Steering Committee,
Title: Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
Abstract: After Gaza, where Jewish texts, history, and language have been deployed to justify mass slaughter and starvation, Peter Beinart argues, Jews must tell a new story. After this war, whose story will echo for generations, they must do nothing less than offer a new answer to the question: What does it mean to be a Jew?
Bio: Peter Beinart is professor of journalism and political science at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. He is also editor at large of Jewish Currents, a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times, an MSNBC political commentator, and a nonresident fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace. He writes the Beinart Notebook newsletter on Substack.com and is most recently the author of Being Jewish After the destruction of Gaza. He lives in New York with his family.