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articles and early access to Colette social events. And today we're going to be

talking about anti-Zionism with a very special guest. Paul Berman, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller,

terror and liberalism, as well as the flight of the intellectuals, a tale of two utopias, and power and the idealists.

He is also the author of a widely read Liberty's article recently published by Colette

entitled A Stupid Cartoon and the University ideology.

Franz Phonon, Stokely Carmichael, and the roots of the uproar over Zionism.

Okay, so I often cover a lot of ground in these podcasts, but this episode is particularly wide-ranging.

So I'm going to do my best to set the stage properly in this introduction.

And the best place to start is with that aforementioned cartoon referenced in the title to Berman's

Quilett article.

That cartoon was contained in an infographic published on Instagram back in February by two student

organizations at Harvard University, the undergraduate

Palestine Solidarity Committee and the African and African American Resistance Organization, with the

support of a third organization called Harvard

faculty and staff for justice in Palestine. The cartoon was supposed to show and

acclaim the historical origins of African American political solidarity with the

Palestinian cause, but instead it attracted accusations of anti-Semitism.

And when I describe the cartoon you will understand why. The image showed blacks and Arabs

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