Welcome to Current Affairs. My name is Nathan Robinson. I'm the editor-in-chief of Current Affairs Magazine. I am joined today by Nathan Thrawl. He is, most recently, the author of the new book, A Day in the Life of aed Salama. He is also the author of the book,

the only language they understand forcing compromise in Israel and Palestine.

He served for a decade at the International Crisis Group

as the director of the Arab-Israeli project.

He is also the subject of a recent article in the Guardian newspaper.

Guardian interview, it's lonely being a Jewish critic of Israel.

Nathan Throll, thank you for joining us on current affairs today.

Thank you for having me. In the recent interview you did with the Guardian, you say that you live in Jerusalem and you say there's almost a post in

9-11 at the moment. Could you explain to us a little bit what you meant by that?

You know, I have never seen this degree of intolerance for any sort of nuance in the discussion

of Israel-Palestine, for any discussion of root causes, even just expression of sympathy

for Palestinians living under occupation.

And so we've seen events

canceled in the UK and the U.S., hotels that are refusing to host long-planned Palestinian

conferences, concert in London, shut down my own book event, shut down in London by the UK police. And of course, you know,

what made headlines was the prize in Germany that was going to be given to a Palestinian author.

And I don't really know the details of that story. I've just been so inundated that I haven't

been able to read it.

But anyway, that also was thwarted. And you saw that the UK Home Secretary had said, now,

you know, the police, of course, are not going to follow through on this, but she had said that she'd recommended to the police to arrest anyone or to consider arresting anyone

with a Palestinian flag. We saw in France that they were banning Palestinian protests.

It's really a very, very difficult moment to speak with any kind of intelligence or

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