In the end, the Gaza battle protests sweeping campuses are about influencing Israeli politics. The protesters need to use financial divestment, American strain and coverage, and a broad sense of worldwide outrage to alter the choices being made by Israeli leaders.
So I needed to know what it’s like to look at these protests from Israel. What are Israelis seeing? What do they make of them?
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Ari Shavit is an Israeli journalist and the writer of “My Promised Land,” the most effective ebook I’ve examine Israeli id and historical past. “Israelis are seeing a special battle than the one which Individuals see,” he tells me. “You see one battle movie, horror movie, and we see at dwelling one other battle movie.”
This can be a dialog about attempting to push divergent views into relationship with one another: On the protests, on Israel, on Gaza, on Benjamin Netanyahu, on what it means to take societal trauma and concern critically, on Jewish values, and extra.
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