The Beinart Notebook

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is Arielle Lekach-Rosenberg, lead rabbi of Shir Tikvah , a “justice-seeking, song-filled” congregation in South Minneapolis. With a background in organizing for migrant rights, she has bridged faith and activist communities locally and nationally to confront the Trump administration’s ongoing siege of...

A list of ways to help Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. This week’s Zoom call will be at our regular time, Friday at 1 PM Eastern. Our guest will be Arielle Lekach-Rosenberg, lead rabbi of Shir Tikvah , a “justice-seeking, song-filled” congregation in South Minneapolis. With a background in organizing for migrant rights, she has bridged faith and activist communities locally and nationally...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Daoud Kuttab is an award-winning Palestinian journalist and author of State of Palestine NOW . He supports two states, because “the most urgent and doable solution now is the creation of an independent state of Palestine that can live at peace with Israel.” His brother, Jonathan Kuttab is a co-founder of the hu...

A list of ways to help Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. This week’s Zoom call will be at our regular time, Friday at 1 PM Eastern. Last week’s guests were two Jewish brothers who disagree politically. This week, the intra-family disagreement will be between two Palestinian brothers. Daoud Kuttab is an award-winning Palestinian journalist and author of State of Palestine NOW . He supports tw...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guests are brothers Yehuda and Joel Beinin and the director of the 2025 documentary about them, Holding Liat . On October 7, 2023, Yehuda’s daughter, Liat Atzili, was abducted by Hamas, and spent 54 days in captivity in Gaza before being released. Yehuda’s son-in-law, Aviv Atzili, was killed. In the film, Y...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Cherien Dabis is an actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. In March 2022, Dabis was named Laureate for Cultural Excellence by the Takreem foundation for her work on authentic Arab representation in Hollywood. Dabis produced, wrote, directed, and acted in her latest film, All That’s Left of You . It follow...

A list of ways to help Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. This week’s Zoom call will be at our regular time, Friday at 1 PM Eastern time. Our guests will be two brothers, Yehuda and Joel Beinin. Yehuda is a landscape architect in Kibbutz Shomrat in northern Israel. Joel (“Joey” to his family and friends) is Emeritus Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University. On October 7, 2023,...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Trita Parsi is an expert on Iran, author, and executive vice president of The Quincy Institute . I asked him to help make sense of the current situation in Iran.

Note: Apologies for the poor video quality here. I’m making do with spotty WiFi. A list of ways to help Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. There will be no Zoom call this week. We’ll return next week. Things to Read (Maybe this should be obvious, but I link to articles and videos I find provocative and significant, not necessarily ones I entirely agree with.) In Jewish Currents ( subscribe !)...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is one of the foremost scholars of US policy towards Latin America, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Yale historian, Greg Grandin, author of Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism and America, América: A New History of the New World . We talked about how the...

A list of ways to help Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. This week’s zoom call will be at a special time, Wednesday at 1pm ET . Our guest will be one of the foremost scholars of US policy towards Latin America, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Yale historian Greg Grandin, author of Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism and America, América: A New...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is Philip Gordon, a scholar at the Brookings Institution and former National Security Advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris. We talked about the Biden-Harris administration’s actions regarding Israel and Gaza, Kamala Harris’s statements about Gaza during the campaign, and what policies Democrats sho...

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A list of ways to help Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. This week’s zoom call will be at our regular time, Friday at 1 PM. Our guest will be Philip Gordon, a scholar at the Brookings Institution and former National Security Advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris. We’ll talk about the Biden-Harris administration’s actions regarding Israel and Gaza, Kamala Harris’s statements about Gaza duri...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guests this week are two remarkable people, Musya Herzog and Meyer Labin. Musya is a neuropsychologist who grew up in the Chabad-Lubavitch community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Meyer is a Yiddish-language journalist and writer from the Satmar community. They talk about the discourse about Israel and Zionism...

A list of ways to help Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank A way to directly help victims of the massacre in Sydney This week’s zoom call will be at our regular time, Friday at 1 PM. Our guests will be two remarkable people, Musya Herzog and Meyer Labin. Musya is a neuropsychologist who grew up in the Chabad-Lubavitch community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Meyer is a Yiddish-language journalist...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Sarah Schwartz, a human rights lawyer who grew up in Sydney, is the founding executive officer of the Jewish Council of Australia , a Jewish community organization founded to fight against antisemitism and all forms of racism, and to support Palestinian freedom and justice.

This week’s zoom call will be at A SPECIAL TIME: THURSDAY AT 2 PM Eastern . In light of the Chanukah massacre in Sydney, we’ll talk to Sarah Schwartz, a human rights lawyer who grew up in Sydney, and is the founding executive officer of the Jewish Council of Australia , a Jewish community organization founded to fight against antisemitism and all forms of racism, and to support Palestinian freedom...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Mahmood Mamdani is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia University, and father of the mayor-elect of New York City. We’ll talk about Professor Mamdani’s new  memoir  about his family’s experience in Uganda, his research on the similarities—and differences—between settler-colonialism in South A...

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Given the controversy over my talk at Tel Aviv University, I thought it would be interesting to talk to two experts on boycotts. Zackie Achmat is a veteran South African political activist and a leading authority on the role of boycotts in the anti-apartheid movement. Mazin Qumsiyeh is founder and volunteer director of the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem Univer...

Recently, Jeremy Ben-Ami wrote an essay criticizing my apology for speaking at Tel Aviv University. I thought it would be a good idea to have him on to explore our differences. 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 list of ways to help Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. This week’s call will be at a special time, WEDNESDAY at 1 PM. Given the controversy over my talk at Tel Aviv University, and subsequent apology, I thought it would be interesting to talk to two experts on boycotts: one South African and one Palestinian. Zackie Achmat is a veteran South African political activist and a leading authorit...

Anne Irfan is an expert on Palestinian refugee rights, the UN and UNRWA. She is a Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies at University College London ( UCL ). She has previously taught at the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics, and the University of Sussex. I invited her to talk about her latest book, A Short History of the Gaza Strip . This is a publ...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is Chapman University Professor Emeritus Nubar Hovsepian, author of the new book, Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual . We talked about Professor Hovsepian’s insights into Said, his close friend, and about what we might learn from Said’s work for this moment in Israel-Palestine a...