Chloé Valdary fights bigotry with love
NEWS
Hamas this week carried out the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, after which Israel declared war for the first time since 1973. Israel has now ordered 1 million Palestinians to evacuate northern Gaza ahead of a ground invasion.
Paris prosecutors are investigating the suspected poisoning of Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who fled Russia after denouncing the war in Ukraine on live TV and was hospitalized this week after suddenly falling ill.
Sam Bushman, CEO of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA)—which claims federal and state governments are subordinate to county sheriffs and police—attended a BBQ hosted by a white nationalist and guested on a radio show with a host who praised Hitler.
The constitutional sheriff movement was founded in 1970 by William Gale, who believed Jews were part of a satanic conspiracy to destroy America and who once said on the radio, “If a Jew comes near you, run a sword through him.”
FEATURE
This week I spoke to writer and entrepreneur Chloé Valdary, whose innovative form of combatting bigotry seeks to connect with individuals through philosophy and pop culture rather than treating them as political abstractions.
SHORT FILM
I have been haunted this week by videos and photographs of Israeli and Palestinian children. As part of my work, I have probably been consuming more content of this type than is healthy. In lieu of a review, here is a short film about two boys, an Israeli and a Palestinian, caught in the middle of a conflict that is beyond their understanding.