A New Embassy in Jerusalem, an Old Struggle in Gaza

A New Embassy in Jerusalem, an Old Struggle in Gaza

A New Embassy in Jerusalem, an Old Struggle in Gaza

Amy Wilentz on the American embassy in Israel, Rachel Kushner on The Mars Room, and Patricia J. Williams on the legacy of lynching.

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Every day, Trump makes the world less safe; Monday was a big one. Amy Wilentz comments on Ivanka and Jared—and Sheldon Adelson—dedicating the new American embassy in Jerusalem while the Israeli military killed 60 Palestinians during a mass nonviolent protest at the Gaza border. Amy was Jerusalem correspondent for The New Yorker and wrote the novel Martyrs’ Crossing about Palestinians and Israelis.

Also: There are 219,000 women in prison in the United States—Rachel Kushner’s new novel, The Mars Room, is a story about one of them. She explains the mix of fact and imagination that went into the book.

Plus: More than 4,400 African Americans were murdered by white mobs between 1877 and 1950—that’s the conclusion of the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit legal center. The new National Memorial for Peace and Justice, in Montgomery, Alabama, is dedicated to the victims; it opened last month. Patricia J. Williams, a longtime columnist for The Nation, comments.

 

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Jon Wiener Jon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.


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