Several writers and activists, including Naomi Klein and Michelle Alexander, declined to participate in PEN America's World Voices Festival due to what they perceived as the organization's inadequate support of Palestinian artists during the Israel-Gaza conflict.

In this episode of "The Lessons of War Edition," Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron, and Don Futterman discuss various topics including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Benny Gantz's boasting about killing terrorists in Gaza, and historian Benny Morris's pessimistic prediction about the future for Jews in Palestine.