Peter Beinart reflects on the meaning of Exodus
Channel: Mike Cushman
Date: 2022-04-20

Peter describes how peace and reconciliation require not just equality but also a reckoning with the past and reparations. This is as true for the United States trying to come to terms with the history of slavery as it is for Israel to account for the successive expulsions of Palestinians

Jews leaving Egypt were laden with Egyptian gold and silver which they used to build the monstrous Golden Calf. Andrew argues that reparations are not a question of silver and gold but  recognition of rights