Surviving the Israel-Hamas War: A Young Palestinian Rock Musician’s Ordeal

Fox’s Marriage of Convenience • The Left’s Populist Awakening • Johnson in a Bind [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair Hive logo image]( Surviving the Israel-Hamas War: A Young Palestinian Rock Musician’s Ordeal Good morning from the Hive newsroom. Two years ago, while reporting for Vanity Fair in Gaza, Reckoning Project founder Janine di Giovanni formed a close friendship with Raji el-Jaru, a boisterous Palestinian rock musician. Now, in a poignant new [essay](, di Giovanni reconnects with the 31-year-old guitarist, who questions how his community will ever begin to heal through the trauma of the Israel-Hamas war. “There’s no words. No way I can describe it. Maybe with music,” el-Jaru tells her. “That will be my mission, to tell the story through music.” Elsewhere, Bloomberg correspondent and author Joshua Green joins Brian Stelter on the [latest episode]( of Inside the Hive to discuss how Democratic heavyweights like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have pulled their party—and Joe Biden—leftward on labor. Meanwhile in media, Stelter [hears]( grumblings inside Fox News about the network’s marriage of convenience with Donald Trump, now that he’s the presumptive GOP presidential nominee. “Trump,” as one staffer tells him, “is the monster we created.” Plus, Charlotte Klein [chats]( with Miami Herald reporter Julie Brown, who broke major ground in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, about the significance of last week’s court document drop. Thanks for reading! [Raji el-Jaru]( [Surviving the Israel-Hamas War: A Young Palestinian Rock Musician’s Ordeal]( By [Janine di Giovanni]( [A veteran correspondent reconnects with a friend who has been displaced amid the death and devastation in Gaza.]( [Read more button](   [“A Pathetic Surrender”: Why Fox News Just Can’t Quit Donald Trump]( By [Brian Stelter]( [Wednesday’s Iowa town hall rankled staffers who see the network—like most of the GOP—falling in line behind the 2024 front-runner. As one correspondent acknowledged afterward, “Trump is the monster we created.”]( [Read more button](   [“Where Is the Party Heading?”: Inside the Populist Awakening of Bernie, Warren, and AOC]( By [Brian Stelter]( [Author Joshua Green chronicles the trajectory of the Democratic Party following the 2008 financial crisis, which spurred a reemergence of labor organizing and pulled Joe Biden closer to his left flank.]( [Read more button](   [How the Miami Herald Got the Epstein Documents]( By [Charlotte Klein]( [Recently unsealed documents related to Jeffrey Epstein are among thousands that the Herald fought to obtain in a five-year legal battle that goes far beyond “names of famous people,” says reporter Julie Brown, and helps tell the story of “our criminal justice system and how we allow rich, famous, influential people to manipulate” it.]( [Read more button](   [Is Mike Johnson Going to Lose His Speaker Gig, Kevin McCarthy Style?]( By [Bess Levin]( [“He should have never been hired.”]( [Read more button](   Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. [Sign Up Now](   [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn](   This e-mail was sent to you by The Hive. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( Sent from Condé Nast, 1 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007 Copyright © 2024 Condé Nast