Following Kiddush lunch, I/P Peace will host a discussion of Peter Beinart’s thought-provoking new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza. Beinart argues that a story of persecution and victimhood dominates Jewish communal life, erasing the nuances of Jewish religious tradition and warping our understanding of Israel and Palestine. He argues that after Gaza, where Jewish texts, history, and language have been deployed to justify mass slaughter and starvation, Jews must tell a new story. Beinart imagines an alternate story, one embedded in a rereading of Jewish tradition that recognizes Jewish and Palestinian safety as intertwined.