Palestinians' "Second Front': Saree Makdisi, plus Eric Foner on "The Underground Railroad"

The Nation Podcasts · May 19, 2021 · 41m

Palestinians and Israel: Saree Makdisi talks about what Netanyahu has called “the second front”: Palestinian citizens of Israel, who are increasingly subject to attack by right-wing Jewish mobs, and who are increasingly active in support of Palestinians in East Jerusalem and Gaza. Saree is a professor of English and comparative literature at UCLA and his work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, and the London Review of Books, as well as The Nation.

Also: The big TV event of the month-—maybe of the year—is The Underground Railroad, a ten-part series on Amazon…