{"id":225228,"date":"2026-03-18T12:36:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/225228\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T12:36:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:36:24","slug":"talk-and-book-signing-understanding-palestine-and-israel-in-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/225228\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk and Book Signing: Understanding Palestine and Israel in Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) joins with Jewish Voice for Peace\u2013Los Angeles and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patmbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Page Against The Machine<\/a> to host our longtime political analyst, writer, and activist, Phyllis Bennis, who will be discussing her latest book, published by Olive Branch Press in 2025. We&#8217;re are honored to join JVP-LA and PATM to present this event with answers all the questions you&#8217;ve been wondering about\u2013up to and including Israel&#8217;s war on Gaza and the election of Donald Trump\u2013in straightforward, accessible language.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the world watched in horror as Israel responded to the terrible acts of October 7, 2023 with a brutal war against the people of Gaza, a key question was when to start the clock. Because the events of October 7 had their origins in events that transpired 17, or 58, or even 77 years earlier. What is the Balfour Declaration? What are the Occupied Territories? What is Zionism&#8211;and do all Jews support it? Does Israel have the right of self-defense? What were conditions like in Gaza before October 7? offers a lucid point-by-point examination that brings together the historical, factual, legal, and moral basis for an informed understanding of one of the great historical injustices of the past hundred years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) joins with Jewish Voice for Peace\u2013Los Angeles and Page Against The Machine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-225228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}