The Beinart Notebook

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com My guest is Gilbert Achcar, professor emeritus of SOAS University of London. He is the author of many books, the latest of which is Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective . Topics include Why the US joined Israel to attack Iran Was the Gaza genocide necessary to win Palestinians world su...

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guests are Rabbi Alana Alpert, the Rabbi of Tachiyah, a multi-generational congregation in Metro Detroit, and Alice Mishkin, a fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. I Invited them to discuss Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan and the Jewish divide over...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com To discuss the results of yesterday’s midterm elections, our first guest is Patrick Gaspard, who served as President Obama’s political director, as executive director of the Democratic National Committee, as US ambassador to South Africa and as president of the Center for American Progress. Our second guest is...

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com The Israeli elections were yesterday. To discuss the results, our first guest is Sami Abu Shehada , a Palestinian citizen of Israel and former Knesset member who led the Balad Party until he withdrew from this year’s elections after having been disqualified by Israel’s Central Elections Committee. Our second gu...

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is Aharon Dardik. Aharon is an Israeli-American ex-settler, and conscientious objector to the Israeli military. He was a nonviolent activist at Columbia University. He was recently detained by the Israeli forces while doing protective presence for West Bank Palestinians during olive harvest. We discus...

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is Assal Rad , author of Don’t Say Palestine: How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide . We talked about how American media has covered Israel-Palestine, about recent efforts by Israel’s supporters to gain ownership of key institutions in American media, and about alternative media and how it i...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest today is Swedish journalist, Göran Rosenberg . He’s the author of A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz , Israel, a Personal History , and Another Zionism, Another Judaism .

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guests today are UC-Berkeley History Professor Ussama Makdisi and UCLA English Professor Saree Makdisi talking about their new book, Anti-Palestinianism . We discuss: How the charge of antisemitism is used to stifle pro-Palestinianism Academic suppression of the pro-Palestinian movement Permission to narrat...

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guests are two of the most sophisticated and fearless internal critics of Israeli politics and society: Mairav Zonszein , senior analyst for Israel at the International Crisis Group and a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times, and Raef Zreik , a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Institute i...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guests today are Meir Javedanfar, lecturer in Iranian Studies at Reichman University in Tel Aviv, and Nader Hashemi, professor of Middle East politics at Georgetown. Though both are from Iran, they offer two very divergent perspectives on Iran’s history and present. I’m grateful they were willing to let me...

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit peterbeinart.substack.com/subscribe The August AMA video is here for Premium members. A sample portion is free for all. Topics include: * The California proposal to make Judaism an ethnicity * The dangers of purity politics * Israel needs enemies * Rahm Emanuel is stuck in his pro-...

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guests are two of the most sophisticated and fearless internal critics of Israeli politics and society: Mairav Zonszein , senior analyst for Israel at the International Crisis Group and a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times, and Raef Zreik , a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Institute i...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is Avner Gvaryahu, former executive director of Breaking the Silence , which takes testimony from former Israeli soldiers. He’s currently doing research at Oxford University on the use of AI in war. With all the debate around the new documentary, NAZA, I wanted to talk to Avner about the IDF and milit...

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest today is Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller. He was the longtime Hillel Director at UCLA. He’s a fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute , and was ordained by Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik at Yeshiva University. He has opposed Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza for close to half a century, first with Br...

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com On the 25th anniversary of September 11, we discuss the enduring legacy of that day. Our guests are Spencer Ackerman, author of Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump and the newsletter, Forever Wars , and Iyad El-Baghdadi, co-author of The Middle East Crisis Factory and Edito...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is Rabbi Yaacov Behrman, the public relations liaison for Chabad Headquarters, as well as the founder of the Jewish Future Alliance and Director of Operation Survival. We discuss: The biblical mandate for human equality How West Bank settlements makes a two-state solution less likely Why did Chabad ho...