It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. Peter Beinerd is with us now,

the New York Times contributing opinion writer, CUNY Newmark School of Journalism, Professor

MSNBC contributor and editor at large at Jewish Currents magazine, has a new book called

Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza. Peter, welcome back to WNYC.

Thanks for having me. And here are a few clips to set up the conversation. Here is UN Secretary General

Antonio Guterres yesterday, Holocaust Remembrance Day, on the 80th anniversary of the liberation

of the Auschwitz death camp. One of the clearest and most troubling examples is the spreading

cancer of Holocaust denial.

Undisputable historical facts are being distorted, diminished and dismissed.

And efforts are being made to recast and rehabilitate Nazis and their collaborators.

We must stand up to these outrages.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

Also yesterday, it was also a day that saw more Israeli hostages

and Palestinian prisoners released in an exchange

between Israel and Hamas as part of their ceasefire agreement and

that saw Palestinians with homes in northern Gaza allowed to return for the first time since the

start of the war. Here is NPR's producer in Gaza, Anas Baba, expressing some of his emotion

as he himself was one of those people returning to Gaza City.

Now I'm getting closer to the outskirts of Gaza City. I'm feeling that there is like

shiver all over my body, electricity that's just like gives me more energy to keep going,

to keep walking. I'm sorry that my voice is truly, like,

thrilled, but I'm extremely happy. I'm grateful. NPR's producer in Gaza, Anas Baba, and here is

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