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Journalists aren’t wrong to interview people in power. But when that’s all they do, they let power – rather than expertise – define the boundaries of legitimate public debate. - Peter Beinart
For the first time, prominent American Jews publicly disassociated themselves from the democratically approved policies of the Israeli government.
Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
Yet in North America, raising the alarm about the fact that we have outsourced the management of our critical informational pathways to algorithms run by for-profit companies, working hand in glove with governments, somehow became the terrain of the Bannonite political right, which points to a dangerous ceding of ideological territory.
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Freedom means freely choosing commitment and obligations that bring out the individual’s humanity; servitude means carrying out orders dictated by others. The
Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
Mistrust May Mobilize the Right and Disengage the Left
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
the view of many decent people, the Palestinian (and widespread Arab) support for the Nazis should have disqualified them from having much of a say in the postwar rearrangements,
Alan Dershowitz • The Case for Israel
Political partisanship had morphed into tribalism, and debates over the issues of the day had come to feel less like differences of opinion than like disagreements about the nature of reality.
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
... See moreThe empathy for and interest in protecting the powerless and a ruthless pursuit of opportunity for all, no matter of high or low birth, that once defined a righteous and productive political movement has been set aside in favor of a performative politics—whose most zealous adherents are often more interested in signaling membership in a caste—that
the coming extinction of the Jews.