The Beinart Notebook

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is Rozina Ali, a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and the author of the new book, just released this week, Seasons of Fury: Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America . We discuss: Why anti-Muslim bigotry has become so prominent in America The various ways American Muslims...

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is Rabbi Asher Lopatin, the Director of Community Relations at the Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor and the Rabbi of Kehillat Etz Chaim in Oak Park, Michigan. I’ve known Rabbi Lopatin for a long time. He’s not only a great teacher of Torah, he’s also a mensch. Which makes his willingness to supp...

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is Norman Finkelstein, the longtime critic of Israel, and critic of the way the memory of the Holocaust—which both his parents survived—has been exploited to justify Israel’s actions. He has written a new book, titled Gaza’s Gravediggers . I talked to Norman about what it’s like—after decades as a pol...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is Rahm Emanuel, who has served as Chief of Staff for Barack Obama, a member of Congress from Illinois, mayor of Chicago, and US Ambassador to Japan. He recently gave a speech at Tel Aviv University that advocated US pressure on Israel, but also made claims about the history of Israeli-Palestinian neg...

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is Curt Mills , executive director of The American Conservative , and the subject of a recent profile in Jewish Currents . Curt is one of most influential thinkers in defining a conservative foreign policy that is skeptical of both war and unconditional support for Israel. We talked about why he suppo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is Andy Levin, former Democratic congressman who represented Michigan’s 9th District until his 2022 loss to Haley Stevens. Stevens in turn appears to have lost to Abdul El-Sayed in yesterday’s Democratic primary for Senate. I invited Andy to analyze the race thus far and the general election to come.

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is Thomas Wright, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and frequent contributor to the Atlantic who served as senior director for strategic planning at the National Security Council during the Biden administration. Thomas is a smart guy who sees Israel-Palestine, and foreign policy more genera...

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guests are Ben Rhodes, former deputy national security advisor to Barack Obama, co-host of Pod Save the World, and author of All We Say: A History of the United States in 15 Speeches , and Yousef Munayyer, head of the Palestine/Israel program at the Arab Center , Washington DC. We discuss the Democratic Par...

This week’s Zoom call will be at our regular time: Friday at 1 PM. Our guests will be Ben Rhodes, former deputy national security advisor to Barack Obama, contributing opinion writer at The New York Times , co-host of Pod Save the World and author, more recently, of All We Say: A History of the United States in 15 Speeches , and Yousef Munayyer, head of the Palestine/Israel program at the Arab Cen...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is Chris Van Hollen, Democratic Senator from Maryland. He’s been among the senators most vocal about changing US policy towards Israel. In May, he wrote a New York Times column calling for conditioning US arms sales to the Jewish state and suggested that “Democrats should pursue a last-gasp effort to...

This week’s Zoom call will be at our regular time: Friday at 1 PM. Our guest will be Chris Van Hollen, Democratic Senator from Maryland. He’s been among the senators most vocal about changing US policy toward Israel. In May, he wrote a New York Times column calling for conditioning US arms sales to the Jewish state and suggested that “Democrats should pursue a last-gasp effort to salvage a two-sta...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is Darializa Avila Chevalier, who just won the Democratic nomination for Congress in New York’s 13th district. Avila Chevalier has attracted controversy for her views on Israel-Palestine, among other issues. But the interviews with her that I’ve seen haven’t probed those views in depth. I want to bett...

This week’s Zoom call will be at our regular time: Friday at 1 PM. Our guest will be Darializa Avila Chevalier, who last month won the Democratic nomination for Congress in New York’s 13th district. Avila Chevalier has attracted controversy for her views on Israel-Palestine, among other issues. But the interviews with her that I’ve seen haven’t probed those views in depth. I want to ask what she s...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is Brad Lander, who last week won the Democratic nomination for Congress in New York’s 10th district. Brad’s victory is a milestone: A Jewish politician, running on his support for Palestinian rights, winning in one of the most Jewish districts in the country. Even a few years ago, it would have been...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is Rachel Timoner , Senior Rabbi at Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn. I’ve known her since college. Our political and religious trajectories have taken us in unexpected directions, and left us with different views about Israel-Palestine. I’m grateful she took the time to discuss them with me. Topi...

This week’s Zoom call will be at our regular time: Friday at 1 PM. Our guest will be Brad Lander, who last week won the Democratic nomination for Congress in New York’s 10th district. Brad’s victory is a milestone: A Jewish congressman, running on his support for Palestinian rights, winning in one of the most Jewish districts in the country. Even a few years ago, it would have been unimaginable. W...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guests are Aslı Bâli , professor international law at Yale, and Trita Parsi , executive vice president of the Quincy Institute. These two are near the top of the list of people I’d want to advise the next Democratic president. They care deeply about the United States, but see past the exceptionalism that pr...

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 A monthly “Ask Me Anything” session is the one perk offered to Premium paid subscribers only. A sample question and answer is free for all. Topics include: * Israel bombing Lebanon * Cenk Uygur * The Brooklyn Food Co-Op Israel boycott * The BDS m...

This week’s Zoom call will be at our regular time: Friday at 1 PM. Our guests will be Aslı Bâli , professor international law at Yale, and Trita Parsi , executive vice president of the Quincy Institute. When I imagine the people I’d want to advise the next Democratic president, Asli and Trita are near the top of my list. They care deeply about the United States but they’re not American exceptional...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is Munther Isaac , a Palestinian minister and theologian based in the West Bank who runs the Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice . He gained international attention for his Christmas 2023 sermon, Christ in the Rubble . We talk about Palestinian life in the West Bank, Munther’s critique of Christ...