Thank you. I encourage Jenin and anyone else who is interested to read Simon Schama's The Story of the Jews, particularly the second volume (1492-1900), and if you have the stomach for it Dan Stone's The Holocaust, An Unfinished History to get some perspective on the unrelenting brutality Jews have been subjected to since time immemorial.
We need more rational discussions like this. I usually avoid reading anything having to do with Israel/Gaza, because I don't know enough about it, and everyone seems to have lost their minds where it's concerned. My own feeling has been that, as you say, there's plenty of blame to go around, and I resent insistence that one take a side.
So I'm glad that was not the focus here, but rather how people need to be able to talk about things. In the authors I read, there seems to be a general acknowledgment that today's academia (& K-12) is made up of more and more woke people who are then turning out more and more woke students. Altering the course were on, necessarily involves the educational system, not just in the US but Europe as well (eugyppius readers are familiar with that).
Many thanks to Jenin for her work on Murthy! Too bad most of my friends have never even heard of it.
Thank you. I encourage Jenin and anyone else who is interested to read Simon Schama's The Story of the Jews, particularly the second volume (1492-1900), and if you have the stomach for it Dan Stone's The Holocaust, An Unfinished History to get some perspective on the unrelenting brutality Jews have been subjected to since time immemorial.
We need more rational discussions like this. I usually avoid reading anything having to do with Israel/Gaza, because I don't know enough about it, and everyone seems to have lost their minds where it's concerned. My own feeling has been that, as you say, there's plenty of blame to go around, and I resent insistence that one take a side.
So I'm glad that was not the focus here, but rather how people need to be able to talk about things. In the authors I read, there seems to be a general acknowledgment that today's academia (& K-12) is made up of more and more woke people who are then turning out more and more woke students. Altering the course were on, necessarily involves the educational system, not just in the US but Europe as well (eugyppius readers are familiar with that).
Many thanks to Jenin for her work on Murthy! Too bad most of my friends have never even heard of it.
Thank you for the kind words. I agree, we need less shouting, more conversations. It usually turns out that we are closer than we imagined.