Скачать или смотреть NYRB: Omri Boehm presents "Haifa Republic," with Susie Linfield

Omri Boehm joins us to celebrate the launch of his new book "Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel," in conversation with Susie Linfield. This program is presented in partnership with our friends at New York Review Books and Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn, and took place on Zoom.

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About the book:

Boehm elegantly synthesizes a tortuous history and offers an imaginative model for Israel’s political future. —Kirkus Reviews

"Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel" is an urgent wake-up call. The philosopher Omri Boehm argues that it is long past time to recognize that there will not be a two-state solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people. After fifty years, Israel’s occupation of the West Bank constitutes annexation in all but name, even as the legitimate claims of the Arab population, soon to be a national majority, remain unaddressed. Meanwhile, daily life goes on under conditions rightly likened to apartheid. For liberals in Israel and America to continue to place their hopes in a two-state solution is a form of willful and culpable blindness, especially now that Israeli leaders across the political spectrum have begun to speak of ethnic cleansing. A catastrophe is in the making.

But "Haifa Republic" also offers grounds for hope. Catastrophe can be averted, Boehm contends, by reconfiguring Israel as a single binational state in which Palestinians and Jews both possess human rights and equal citizenship. The original Zionists—Theodor Herzl, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, and, early in his career, David Ben-Gurion—all advocated such a federation, and as prime minister, Menachem Begin successfully submitted a kindred plan to the Knesset. A binational federation offers a last chance for the two peoples who call Palestine home to live in peace and mutual respect and to have a truly democratic future in common.

About the presenters:

Omri Boehm is a professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of "The Binding of Isaac: A Religious Model of Disobedience" and "Kant’s Critique of Spinoza." His writings on Israeli politics and culture have appeared in Haaretz, Die Zeit, The New York Times, and elsewhere.

Susie Linfield is the author of "The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence" and "The Lions' Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky." She teaches journalism at New York University.