Join Peter Beinart and David Myers in conversation on Beinart's new book Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning. The former (and longtime) editor of The New Republic and current editor at large for Jewish Currents argues that Israel—and Jews around the world—need to think about the rebuilding of the region in not just physical reconstruction terms, but in moral terms as well. Beinart’s book challenges Israel’s war on Gaza, its methodology, and its policies in the West Bank, arguing that creating Palestinian equality, as opposed to its destruction, is the only sensible and moral way forward for Israel.

David Myers is a Distinguished Professor at UCLA, and holds the Sadie and Ludwig Kahn Chair in History. He is the director of the Luskin Center for History and Policy, and directs the UCLA Initiative to Study Hate. He is the author of several books and is the winner of the National Jewish Book Award, along with his co-author Nomi Stolzenberg, of the great and often jaw-dropping book, American Shetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York.