Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza

Resumen del libro

In Peter Beinart's view, one story dominates Jewish communal life: that of persecution and victimhood. It is a story that erases much of the nuance of Jewish religious tradition and warps our understanding of Israel and Palestine. After Gaza, where Jewish texts, history and language have been deployed to justify mass slaughter and starvation, Beinart argues, Jews must tell a new story.

After this war, whose horror 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? Beinart imagines an alternate narrative, which would draw on other nations' efforts at moral reconstruction and a different reading of Jewish tradition. A story in which Israeli Jews have the right to equality, not supremacy, and in which Jewish and Palestinian safety are not mutually exclusive but intertwined. One that recognizes the danger of venerating states at the expense of human life.

Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza is a provocative argument that will expand and inform one of the defining conversations of our time. It is a book that only Peter Beinart could write: a passionate yet measured work that brings together his personal experience, his commanding grasp of history, his keen understanding of political and moral dilemmas, and a clear vision for the future.

Biografía del autor

(Cambridge, 1971) vive en Nueva York con su familia, donde es profesor de Periodismo y Ciencias Políticas en la Escuela de Periodismo Craig Newmark de la CUNY. Autor de The Crisis of Zionism, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris y The Good Fight, también ejerce de columnista colaborador del New York Times y The Atlantic, así como de editor general en Jewish Currents. Es colaborador de MSNBC, comentarista político de CNN y miembro de la Fundación para la Paz en Oriente Medio, además de miembro sénior de la New America Foundation y redactor político sénior de The Daily Beast.'