The Left's Response to Israel/Palestine Violence (w/ Cornel West)
Premiered October 12, 2023
Dr. West rejoins Bad Faith to talk about his choice to leave the Green Party, and whether it’s really the best strategic option. He then weighs in on the violence on Israel/Palestine and the controversies around the left’s response. What does he make of the Harvard student groups joint letter in response to Hamas’s attack? How does one acknowledge grief and compassion at the murder of Israeli civilians, without validating media narratives that exclusively value Israeli lives without acknowledging the ongoing occupation of Palestinians? It’s the kind of tough, empathic, important conversation we’ve come to expect from Dr. West.
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ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS:
Briahna Joy Gray (b. August 15, 1985) is an American political commentator, lawyer, and political consultant who served as the National Press Secretary for the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign. Gray is a contributing editor for Current Affairs, and was a senior politics editor for The Intercept. She hosts her own podcast, Bad Faith, and co-hosts The Hill's web series Rising. Ms. Gray is a graduate of both Harvard University and Harvard Law School
Dr. Cornel West (b. June 2, 1953) is currently the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary and is the former Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. Cornel West graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton. A democratic socialist, two of Dr. West's most influential books are Race Matters (1993) and Democracy Matters (2004). He has written 20 books and has edited 13 and is widely recognized as one of the major, most important, and highly influential public intellectuals, scholars, critics, and activists in the world today.
Marc Lamont Hill Speaks On Israel-Hamas War, International Law, History + More
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Trained as an anthropologist of education, Dr. Hill holds a Ph.D. (with distinction) from the University of Pennsylvania. He finished his undergraduate studies at Temple University, where he received his B.S. in education and Spanish in 2000. He later earned both an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the intersections between culture, politics, and education in the United States and the Middle East.
