Podcast Club ONLINE: If Not This, Then What Should Israel Do?

This week's podcast is The Ezra Klein Show, with guest Zack Beauchamp, a senior correspondent at Vox, who has covered Israel extensively in recent years. He has received funding awards from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to report on democratic decline in Israel and Hungary in the field and was the longtime host of Worldly, Vox’s weekly podcast on foreign policy and international affairs. He has appeared on a wide range of television and radio networks, including MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, BBC, CBC, ABC (Australia), and Al Jazeera.

NOTE: Please listen to the podcast below before attending the event.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/31/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-zack-beauchamp.html
(includes transcript)

or

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447?i=1000633197565

(1 hr. 4 min.)

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What's this podcast about?

In his recent Vox piece “What Israel Should Do Now" (recommended reading, which also has links to helpful background articles), podcast guest Zach Beauchamp writes, “Two things are true: Israel must do something, and what it’s doing now is indefensible.” Almost a month has passed since Hamas fighters slaughtered over 1,400 people in Israel and the state mounted its furious response. For weeks, Israel has laid siege to Gaza, cutting off water and electricity to the tiny strip of land and carrying out airstrikes that have reportedly killed over 8,000 Palestinians. On Friday (10/27), a ground invasion began, and the response across much of the globe has been horror. If Israel continues down this road, the cost in Palestinian lives, and in support for Israel, will be immense. The question that hangs over the criticism is this: What, then, should Israel do? What would be a moral response to Hamas’s savagery and to the very real need Israelis have for security? Beauchamp set out to answer these questions, speaking with counterterrorism experts, military historians, experts on Hamas, ethicists and more. This podcast covers his findings and thoughts.

What's a podcast club?

It's like a book club for podcasts. Each week we discuss an interesting and currently relevant episode from podcasters like Ezra Klein, Michael Shermer, or Russ Roberts. We start off as a large group and spend most of the time talking in small break-out groups, which we remix 3 times over the course of the evening. Our conversations are casual and open. We encourage everyone to speak freely, respectfully, and concisely. To do this, we try to adhere to Grice's Maxims: https://bit.ly/2p4uSQm

Ultimately, the idea is to help each other think a little differently, learn a thing or two and have some fun.