We are honored to have Professor Peter Beinart in conversation with Assaf Khfoury, member of the BLS Steering Committee, for the next installment of the Bisan Lecture Series, on Wednesday April 16th, at 7PM Palestine time.

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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.