Infinite Jaz

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.infinitejaz.com Yesterday, I spoke with Noah Hurowitz , a reporter for The Intercept , about the Great Israeli Real Estate Expo held Tuesday at Park East Synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, which promoted real estate in both Israel and the occupied West Bank. Noah was able to attend the event—helped, he believes, by his conspi...

The media and political world has been utterly, bizarrely fixated on the streamer Hasan Piker over the past six weeks. He’s been leading coverage on both left- and right-wing outlets, turned into a kind of litmus test for Democratic politicians, and has become the subject of seemingly endless think pieces. Hasan is, to be sure, an influential and charismatic figure in our politics—and his worldvie...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.infinitejaz.com Upgrade to a paid subscription for the full, 90-minute interview. I sat down with my friend Séamus Malekafzali —co-host of the Turbulence podcast and one of the sharpest analysts I know on the Middle East—to make sense of the war on Iran and what it reveals about the U.S.-Israel relationship. We recorded this on Apri...

I sat down with Rob Malley—one of the chief American negotiators on Israel-Palestine over three decades—to discuss his book,  Tomorrow Is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel-Palestine , co-authored with Hussein Agha, who sat on the opposite side of the table, advising the PLO. The book is, in large part, a reckoning with failure. Malley and Agha describe a process that conti...

Congressman Ro Khanna has been making a lot of noise lately—pushing for the release of the Epstein files, challenging the administration over war powers in the escalating conflict with Iran, and positioning himself on the front lines of the Democratic Party’s internal debate over Israel and Palestine. Plenty of people suspect he’s trying to carve out a lane for a presidential run. On Israel-Palest...

On November 27, Thanksgiving Day, Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim, a 16-year-old Palestinian American kid from Florida, walked out of Israeli military detention after 9.5 agonizing months. Yesterday, I spoke with his uncle, Zeyad Kadur, who quarterbacked the sprawling grassroots effort to free Mohammed, to get the definitive account of how it actually happened. The interview is a long one (...again), but f...

The past week has been full of joy: 16-year-old Mohammed Zahir Ibrahim was released from Israeli military detention on Thursday after 9.5 months—and two days later, his three (non-American) friends arrested alongside him walked free too. In all the excitement, I realized I never actually posted about it here. Hopefully you’ve heard the news by now—if not, you can get the basic details from this th...