The US-Israel relationship in the wake of Oct. 7 and the Gaza war

More about Eric Alterman

He was the “The Liberal Media” columnist for The Nation for 25 years and is now a columnist for The American Prospect. He has been a columnist for The Guardian, The Forward, Moment, MSNBC and Rolling Stone, and a contributor to The New Yorker and The Atlantic.

Alterman is a former senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and the World Policy Institute and served on the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.

He has been a media fellow at the Hoover Institute and a fellow of the Schusterman Foundation and the Society of American Historians. Alterman is also a winner of the George Orwell Prize, the Stephen Crane Literary Award and the Mirror Award for media criticism (twice). He graduated from Cornell (BA), Yale (MA) and Stanford (Ph.D).

What has changed in the critical US-Israel relationship since Oct. 7? What internal differences exist within America regarding Israel? What are the key tension points vis-à-vis the Gaza war and the “day after” between the Biden administration and the Netanyahu coalition? Despite the failures of the past, can the Americans broker peace between Israelis and Palestinians? How does the upcoming US election campaign factor in, and what might be the consequences of a Trump win?

Our highly accomplished speaker, Eric Alterman, will unpack these issues and more on February 18. Alterman is eminently well-qualified to discuss the US-Israel relationship, having recently published a comprehensive book on the subject entitled: We Are Not One: The History of America’s Fight Over Israel. He is an award-winning writer of 11 other books, a journalist with a wide body of acclaimed work to his name and a CUNY Distinguished Professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College.