Ta-Nehisi Coates, one of the most celebrated American political writers of our time, devotes much of his new book, The Message, to a withering and deeply personal critique of Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.
Join Jewish Currents editor-at-large Peter Beinart and Coates for a discussion about Coates’s trip to Palestine and Israel, how the Black freedom struggle informed his understanding of what he saw there, and how he summoned the courage to insist on the truth of what he witnessed.
The event is cosponsored by Jewish Currents, the Beinart Notebook, and the Foundation for Middle East Peace.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is an award-winning author and journalist. His books include The Water Dancer and The Message. He is currently a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and the Sterling Brown Endowed Chair in the English department at Howard University. Coates also enjoyed a successful run writing Marvel’s Black Panther (2016–2021) and Captain America (2018–2021) comics series.
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Peter Beinart teaches national reporting and opinion writing at the Newmark J-School and political science at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is editor-at-large for Jewish Currents, an MSNBC political commentator, author of The Beinart Notebook on Substack, a fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace, and the author of Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza (Knopf, 2025).
The Beinart Notebook is a weekly newsletter written by Peter Beinart.
The Foundation for Middle East Peace works to defend and support Palestinian rights, to end Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, and to ensure a just and secure future for Palestinians and Israelis. FMEP advances this goal through its grants program, public programming, and research.
