Gaza, Israel, and the American Left: October 7 One Year Later

a conversation with Ben Rhodes, Suzy Hansen, and Pankaj Mishra

October 7, 2024

On the anniversary of Hamas’s attack on Israel, Ben Rhodes, Suzy Hansen, and Pankaj Mishra discuss the devastating violence of the year since, and America’s role in the conflagration. Watch the first conversation of The New York Review of Books’s series on the 2024 Elections below.

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Ben Rhodes

Ben Rhodes is the author of After the Fall: The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We’ve Made and a former Deputy National Security Adviser. (August 2024)

Suzy Hansen

Suzy Hansen is the author of Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World. (October 2023)

Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra’s new book, The World After Gaza, will be published in February. (November 2024)

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