Disagreement and Discourse

When the Editorial Board met to plan and discuss this week’s editorial, our conversation swerved off track due to concerns over the deep personal significance of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the most significant current event in the news, and questions of how to engage in that discussion while maintaining the level of respectful and constructive dialogue we wanted. Some editors had family in Israel, others wanted to divest from Israel completely, some felt the issue was too emotional to addres