Watching the Protests From Israel
May 7, 2024
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as posted by the channelUltimately, the Gaza war protests sweeping campuses are about influencing Israeli politics. The protesters want to use economic divestment, American pressure and policy, and a broad sense of international outrage to change the decisions being made by Israeli leaders.
So I wanted to know what it’s like to watch these protests from Israel. What are Israelis seeing? What do they make of them?
Ari Shavit is an Israeli journalist and the author of “My Promised Land () ,” the best book I’ve read about Israeli identity and history. “Israelis are seeing a different war than the one that Americans see,” he tells me. “You see one war film, horror film, and we see at home another war film.”
This is a conversation about trying to push divergent perspectives into relationship with each other: On the protests, on Israel, on Gaza, on Benjamin Netanyahu, on what it means to take societal trauma and fear seriously, on Jewish values, and more.
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