Join the Jewish Voice for Peace-Detroit on Monday and Tuesday, March 10-11, for two days of provocative discussions with acclaimed columnist/political commentator Peter Beinart about his new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza.
Four opportunities to hear him speak:
Monday, March 10 at 3 PM: University of Michigan Rackham Amphitheatre, 4th floor, 915 E. Washington St, Ann Arbor, in conversation with Juan Cole.
Monday, March 10 at 7 PM: St David’s Episcopal Church, 16200 W. 12 Mile Rd, Southfield, in conversation with Rev. Chris Yaw.
Tuesday, March 11 at 12 PM: St. Matthew’s and St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church, 8850 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, in conversation with Abayomi Azikiwe.
Tuesday, March 11 at 7 PM: Discussion with Rabbi Alana Alpert at Congregation T’chiyah / First United Methodist Church of Ferndale, 22331 Woodward Ave, Ferndale.
Book signing at all events and light refreshments at most! Book sales will be made available courtesy of Book Beat at the Southfield, Detroit, and Ferndale events, including Beinart’s other books and various other important works on the subject.
Register for an event at tchiyah.org/beinart.
Beinart’s bold, urgent appeal will resonate to all with concerns about our future. “The book is about the stories Jews tell ourselves that blind us to Palestinian suffering. It’s about how we came to value a state, Israel, above the lives of all the people who live under its control.”
This discussion has special urgency following the uproar over Donald Trump’s incendiary proposal, in his press conference with Israeli prime minister Netanyahu, for the United States to “own Gaza” and remove its population. Previously a longtime advocate for Israel, Peter Beinart now challenges “the idea that it can be both Jewish and democratic” and confronts the narrative of Jewish persecution and victimhood that have been deployed to justify mass slaughter and starvation in Gaza.
In The New York Times Beinart states: “Gaza’s destruction serves as a horrifying illustration of Israel’s failure to protect the lives and dignity of all the people who fall under its authority.” He explores a future where Israeli Jews have the right to equality but not supremacy, and in which Jewish and Palestinian safety are not mutually exclusive but intertwined.
Beinart is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, an MSNBC analyst, professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York, and editor-at-large of Jewish Currents.
Thank you to Congregation T’Chiyah, First United Methodist Church of Ferndale, University of Michigan LSA Dept of Arab and Muslim American Studies, St. Matthew’s & St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church of Detroit, St. David’s Episcopal Church of Southfield, Huntington Woods Peace Group, FOSNA (Friends of Sabeel North America)…AND TO ALL OTHERS WHO SHARE AND INVITE OTHERS TO JOIN US!