TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beinart,Peter
TI  - Being Jewish after the destruction of Gaza: a reckoning / 
SN  - 9780593803899
AV  - DS119.77 .B45 2025
U1  - 956.9405/5 23/eng/20240906
PY  - 2025///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - October 7 Hamas Attack, Israel, 2023
KW  - Influence
KW  - Israel-Hamas War, 2023-
KW  - Jews
KW  - Identity
KW  - Palestinian Arabs
KW  - Relations
KW  - Israel
KW  - Palestinian Arab
N1  - "This is a Borzoi book"--Copyright page; Includes bibliographical references; We need a new story -- They tried to kill us, we survived, let's eat -- To whom evil is done -- Ways of not seeing -- The new new antisemitism -- Korach's children
N2  - "In Peter Beinart's view, one story has long dominated Jewish communal life: that of persecution and victimhood. It is a story that erases much of the nuance of sacred Jewish tradition and history, and also warps our understanding of modern history. After Gaza, where Jewish texts, history, and language have been deployed to justify mass slaughter and starvation, he 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 story that would draw on other nations' efforts at moral reconstruction and a different reading of Jewish history: a story in which Jews have the right to equality, not supremacy, and in which Jewish and Palestinian safety are not mutually exclusive but intertwined"--
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