The Beinart Notebook

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is Arab Barghouti, the youngest son of Marwan Barghouti, the Palestinian political leader who has been in prison in Israel for the last 23 years. Arab is the head of international relations for the international campaign to release his father and all Palestinian political prisoners.

I’ll be on book tour for Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza for the next few months. You’ll find a list of book-related events below. I’m happy people are reading my book. But I know that many talented Palestinian authors don’t get the same attention. So, I hope people who buy my book also buy one by a Palestinian author. For instance, Fida Jiryis’ beautiful memoir, Stranger in My Own Land...

We continue our discussion of the assault on academic freedom, especially for pro-Palestinian activists, with Columbia University’s Nadia Abu El-Haj . She is a Professor at Barnard College and Columbia University and Co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies. She just published an essay in The New York Review of Books entitled, “Mahmoud is Not Safe,” about the detention of Columbia student M...

In Their Attack on US Universities, Trump and the ADL are Trying to Redefine Jewishness Itself 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Because of the free speech crisis engulfing Columbia University, we changed the topic of today’s Zoom call. Our new guest is Columbia Professor James Schamus, award-winning screenwriter, producer, and author of this public letter to fellow Jewish faculty at the university. We discuss the Trump administration’s...

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I’ll be on book tour for Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza for the next few months. You’ll find a list of book-related events below. I’m happy people are reading my book. But I know that many talented Palestinian authors don’t get the same attention. So, I hope people who buy my book also buy one by a Palestinian author. For instance, Fida Jiryis’ beautiful memoir, Stranger in My Own Land...

Our guest is Jordan Elgrably , Editor in Chief of The Markaz Review and co-editor with Malu Halasa of the new anthology, Sumud: A New Palestinian Reader . We talk about themes in contemporary Palestinian writing and how that writing can help us better understand the horrors in Gaza and across Palestine and Israel. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or ge...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com The NYU Professor wrote a negative review of Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza . She joined me to discuss her criticisms.

I’ll be on book tour for Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza for the next few months. You’ll find a list of book-related events below. I’m happy people are reading my book. But I know that many talented Palestinian authors don’t get the same attention. So, I hope people who buy my book also buy one by a Palestinian author. For instance, Rashid Khalid’s classic exploration of the roots of Pa...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guests are two important progressive American rabbis who disagree on some fundamental questions regarding Palestine and Israel. Rabbi Alissa Wise , Lead Organizer of Rabbis for Ceasefire , former Co-Deputy Director at Jewish Voice for Peace and co-author of Solidarity is the Political Version of Love: Lesso...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com I spoke with my friend, political analyst, and president of The Agora Initiative , Khalil Sayegh, about why he condemned Hamas’ treatment of the Bibas family and other Israeli civilians, and why that angers some on the global left.

I’ll be on book tour for Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza for the next few months. You’ll find a list of book-related events and reviews below. I’m happy people are reading my book. But I know that many talented Palestinian authors don’t get the same attention. So, I hope people who buy my book also buy one by a Palestinian author. For instance, Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian L...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Palestinian legal scholar Raef Zreik is a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Sometimes the most penetrating analysts of a society are those who see it from below because they are members of an oppressed caste. I’ve often found that Raef, as a Palestinian citizen of Israel, has striking...

On Sunday, February 9th, Israeli police raided both branches of the East Jerusalem Educational Bookstore and arrested its owners, Mahmoud and Ahmed Muna. They were released on bail after two days in jail, but are banned from entering their stores for the next two weeks. During this difficult time, Mahmoud graciously agreed to talk with me about his experience. This is a public episode. If you'd li...

My new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza , is (still) on The New York Times Bestseller List . You’ll find a list of book-related events, interviews and reviews below. I’m happy people are reading my book. But I know that many talented Palestinian authors don’t get the same attention. So, I hope people who buy my book also buy one by a Palestinian author. For instance, the latest wor...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Palestinian legal scholar Raef Zreik is a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Sometimes the most penetrating analysts of a society are those who see it from below because they are members of an oppressed caste. I’ve often found that Raef, as a Palestinian citizen of Israel, has striking...

The Israeli and American Jewish establishments embrace mass ethnic cleansing. 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Deborah Dash Moore is a Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. She’s been studying a number of surveys of American Jewish opinion which suggest that the American Jewish establishment’s claims that an overwhelming percentage of American Jews support the concept of a Jewish state—e...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Daniel Immerwahr is a professor of history at Northwestern University and a contributing writer at The New Yorker . He is the author of How to Hide an Empire . We spoke about Trump’s shocking announcement on Gaza and what it might mean.

What Greenland and Gaza Have in Common The New American Imperialism 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com The Bible Doesn’t Grant Jews Unconditional Sovereignty Over the West Bank

Palestinian-American historian Rashid Khalidi discusses my new book and the state of the struggle for Palestinian liberation. 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Gaza is What Happens When You Treat a State Like a god This Tuesday, Knopf will publish my new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza . You’ll find a list of book-related events, interviews and reviews below.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Jamaal Bowman lost his seat in Congress last year after his support for Palestinian rights prompted a ferocious attack by AIPAC and other pro-Israel organizations. Very few politicians risk their careers on questions of moral principle. I ask Jamaal why he did, and what it would take to convince other Democrats...