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SUMMARY:Akbar Shahid Ahmed at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Akbar Shahid Ahmed—award-winning journalist and Diplomatic Correspondent at NOTUS—for a discussion of his new book\, Crossing the Red Line: Biden\, His Advisors\, and Israel’s War in Gaza. He will be joined in conversation by Indira Lakshmanan—award-winning journalist and co-host of WBUR’s Here & Now. \nAbout Crossing the Red Line\nA powerful and authoritative account of how the Biden administration fueled atrocities in Gaza\, from an award-winning foreign affairs journalist. \nFollowing Hamas’s horrific October 7 attack\, Israel launched an offensive of staggering violence in Gaza\, saying it targeted militants while regularly striking hospitals\, schools\, and homes. Critically acclaimed journalist Akbar Shahid Ahmed offers extensive reporting and chilling new details about how the Biden administration enabled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—ignoring warnings from government experts and implicating Americans in thousands of apparent war crimes. Washington did little to free Israeli hostages or shield innocent Palestinians as protests grew nationwide and international human rights principles crumbled. Still\, President Joe Biden denied he was giving Netanyahu a blank check. He set a “red line” over the town of Rafah\, where more than 1 million Palestinians were sheltering\, saying an assault there would risk Israel’s pipeline of American bombs. Yet after Netanyahu’s advance began\, deepening Gaza’s humanitarian catastrophe\, Biden’s team kept weapons flowing. \nIn vivid prose and with unparalleled access to insiders\, Ahmed depicts a White House that resisted a course correction as its failures became undeniable. He probes Biden’s inner circle: a paranoid and imperious group shaped by the War on Terror\, whose choices fueled tens of thousands of avoidable deaths among Palestinians\, Lebanese\, and Israelis\, torpedoed long-time standards for warfare\, and created a more dangerous world for us all. The Biden administration’s decisions drove voter backlash that helped Donald Trump regain power\, and established patterns of impunity that have spurred wider bloodshed under Trump. \nCrossing the Red Line is an urgent reckoning with Biden’s record on Gaza that is vital to understanding historic damage to America’s standing in the world\, and a period whose dark consequences will resonate globally for decades to come.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/akbar-shahid-ahmed-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
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