Pro-Israel critics are panicking at the success of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book, “The Message,” and they have honed in on an argument to discredit him that doesn’t hold up to the slightest scrutiny.

Listen to a Palestine Festival of Literature event held on November 1 featuring Michelle Alexander, Rashid Khalidi, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Natalie Diaz, Noura Erakat and Mohammed El-Kurd speaking out against the Israeli assault on Gaza.