The Beinart Notebook

Our Zoom call this week will be at the usual time: Friday at Noon EST. Our guest will be Rabbi David Wolpe , a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Divinity School and the Inaugural Rabbinic Fellow at the Anti-Defamation League. Rabbi Wolpe has argued that “the reactions that occurred at Harvard in the wake of Oct. 7 considered Jews oppressors and, in some way, unworthy of human consideration.” He says the...

Our Zoom call this week will be at the usual time: Friday at Noon EST. Our guest will be Fadi Quran , a Senior Campaigner at Avaaz, a Popular Struggle community organizer in the West Bank and one of the most eloquent voices I know about the moral principles undergirding the struggle for Palestinian freedom. Since October 7, his writing has been desperate and enraged , but never lost its ethical co...

Our Zoom call this week will be at the usual time: Friday at Noon EST. Our guests will be two of America’s most insightful commentators on Israel-Palestine, and foreign policy more generally: Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah and Terrell Starr , author of the Black Diplomats newsletter on Substack. We’ll talk about the evolution of Black political discourse on Israel-Palestine and the way rac...

Our Zoom call this week will be at the usual time: Friday at Noon EST. Our guest will be Columbia Professor Rashid Khalidi , America’s most eminent historian of the Palestinian people and the Palestinian struggle. We’ll talk about this latest iteration of what he’s called “ The Hundred Years' War on Palestine ”— what’s new and what’s old since October 7. We’ll talk about where the Palestinian nati...

Our Zoom call this week will be at the usual time: Friday at Noon EST. Our guest will be Omer Bartov , Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown. Omer is one of the world’s most prominent scholars of the Holocaust. He’s also an Israeli who has warned about the genocidal rhetoric of some Israeli leaders since October 7. Now that South Africa has brought a case to the International Court...

Our Zoom call this week, for paid subscribers, will be at the usual time: Friday at Noon EST. Our guest will be Mikhael Manekin . For me, some of the most unsettling scenes from Gaza have been the images of Jewish worship— a soldier using a knife as his yad (pointer) as he reads Torah, a soldier reciting the Shema from the balcony of a mosque, soldiers singing to welcome Shabbat at the Islamic Uni...

Our Zoom call this week will be at a special time: Thursday at 1 PM EST . There will be no zoom call on the week of Friday, December 22 or 29. Our guest will be Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute and the author of three highly acclaimed books on the relationship between the United States, Iran, and Israel. We’ll talk about the response by Iran and its allies to October 7...

Our Zoom call this week will be at the regular time: Friday at Noon EST. (I’ve decided to stop mentioning Friday’s guests at the beginning of these Monday videos.) Our guests this week will be Diana Buttu and Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man . Diana is a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and a former spokesperson for the Palestine Liberation Organization. Emily is a Jewish Israeli human rights lawyer. They’ll t...