“Cancel Culture” and the Israel Debate

JVL Introduction

Peter Beinart is the best writer going on the American Jewish liberal left today.

A long-time committed Zionist he has come to revise his views over the last decade, as numerous articles of his – some reposted on this website – attest.

A professor of journalism and political science at the City University of New York, he is also an editor-at-large at Jewish Currents.

He also writes The Beinart Notebook (you can subscribe here) two or three times a week from which this latest article on cancel culture is reproduced with the author’s permission .

Here’s a taster of his argument:

“Whatever you think of the many recent episodes of left-wing “cancel culture”…[t]hey do not harness the power of the state. The American Jewish establishment, by contrast, is doing something more far-reaching: It is urging the United States government and one of the world’s most powerful social media companies to write the cancellation of anti-Zionist speech into their official policies.”

This article was originally published by The Beinart Notebook on Mon 1 Mar 2021. Read the original here.