This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Mairav Zonszein is Senior Israel-Palestine Analyst for the International Crisis Group . She kindly agreed to talk with me about this breaking news.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Gideon Levy is an Israeli journalist and author. He has long written a weekly column for Haaretz. In our conversation, Gideon tells about his younger days, how he evolved away from racism, and how he now lives in a society he regularly accuses of grave crimes. I was struck by his openness and intimacy and expect you will be too....
The Outgoing National Security Advisor’s Orwellian Interview at the 92nd Street Y Our Zoom call this week, for paid subscribers, will be on Friday, January 17, at 1 PM Eastern, our regular time. Our guest will be Jamil Dakwar , director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Human Rights Program and a former senior attorney at Adalah, which defends the rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel. We’ll talk about the Trump administration’s coming crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech and activism. I...
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Israeli-born British journalist Rachel Shabi is the author of the new book, Off-White: The Truth about Antisemitism . Last week, she published a column on the subject in The Guardian . She’s particularly knowledge about antisemitism, and its weaponization, in Britain, a subject of ferocious contention since Jeremy Corbyn’s time as Labour leader....
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Israeli religious thinker and activist Mikhael Manekin is one of the founders of smol emuni , the faithful left. We discuss Mikhael’s new book, so far available only in Hebrew, entitled, Sermons from the Abyss , which uses the five Megillot that Jews read during the year in synagogue to reflect on the horrors of the last several years. I don’t know of any…...
The Outgoing Secretary of State’s Astonishing Interview with the New York Times Our Zoom call this week, for paid subscribers, will be on Friday, January 10, at 1 PM Eastern, our regular time. Our guest will be the Israeli-born British journalist Rachel Shabi , author of the new book, Off-White: The Truth about Antisemitism . Last week, she published a column on the subject in The Guardian . She’s particularly knowledge about antisemitism, and its weaponization, in Britain, a subject of ferociou...
Carter’s Break with the White South Over Civil Rights Offers a Model for Jews Our guest for the Zoom call this Friday, January 3rd, at 1 Eastern, for paid subscribers, will be Paul O’Brien , Executive Director at Amnesty International USA. We’ll discuss Amnesty’s new report accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. My New Book Knopf will publish my new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza , on January 28, 2025. I hope the book will contribute, in some small way, to changing the...
Our Communal Leaders Keep Conflating Discomfort with Unsafety Something happened earlier this month in December that might seem like—given the scale of all the magnitude of the horrors that are happening around Palestine and Israel—might not seem so significant, but I think really is emblematic of something that’s gone terribly, terribly wrong in the organized American Jewish community. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes...
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guests are Mahmoud Muna, Matthew Teller, and Juliette Touma, editors of the new anthology, Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture , which includes close to a hundred stories about the lives of people in Gaza, both before and after its recent destruction. This interview is co-sponsored with Jewish Currents....
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com I talked with the Palestinian-Norwegian writer Iyad el-Baghdadi about the regional implications of the Assad regime’s fall in Syria and Israel’s military intervention there.
It’s not about the legal definition. It’s about Western and Jewish exceptionalism. 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 I talked with my extraordinary CUNY colleague, the Syrian-American journalist Alia Malek, author of The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria .
It’s Wonderful Assad is Gone. But Neither He, Nor Iran, Was Ever Israel’s Real Problem. There will be no Zoom call this Friday. We’ll resume on Friday, December 20 at 1 PM with a conversation with Mahmoud Muna and Matthew Teller, author of the new anthology, Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture . But I’ve recorded a Zoom interview (without a live audience) with my extraordinary CUNY colleague, the Syrian-American journalist Alia Malek, author of The Home That Was Our Countr...
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is Muzaffar Chishti , Senior Fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, and one of America’s foremost experts on immigration policy. We’ll talk about Donald Trump’s plans for the mass deportation of undocumented—and perhaps even legal— immigrants. We’ll talk about the human cost of such a roundup and what it might do to the United States....
When Even Billionaires Are Afraid to Criticize Trump, What Does That Mean for the Rest of US? 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 Our guest is the renowned, Israeli-born, Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov , who teaches at Brown University. In August, he described returning to Israel and encountering students whose “rhetoric brought to mind some of the darkest moments of 20th-century history.” This month he concluded that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza. We’ll discuss the genocid…...
It’s a Test of Whether International Law Applies to the West 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 Our guest is The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer, author of one of the most famous essays of the first Trump presidency, which he turned into a book: The Cruelty is the Point . We’ll talk about what is similar, and different, as Trump returns, and how Americans should respond to our country’s capacity for cruelty, both at home and abroad....
Our call this week, for paid subscribers, will be on Friday at 1 PM Eastern, our new regular time. Our guest will be The Atlantic ’s Adam Serwer, author of one of the most famous essays of the first Trump presidency, which he turned into a book: The Cruelty is the Point . We’ll talk about what is similar, and different, as Trump returns, and how Americans should respond to our country’s enormous capacity for cruelty, both at home and abroad. Paid subscribers will get an email with the Zoom link,...
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is New York Magazine Editor-at-Large Rebecca Traister, among the best writers on gender and politics (and many other things) in America. This essay she wrote after Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2016 still captures many painful truths about the brutal burden facing not only women presidential candidates, but American women as a whole. They talked…...
These monthly conversations are usually reserved for Premium members, but given the gravity of this moment, we decided to make this one available to everybody. 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
Just Because People Vote For Something Doesn’t Make It Right 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 Our guest is Yale Philosophy Professor Jason Stanley, a world-renowned scholar of fascism and author of the new book, Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future . We talk about Donald Trump’s victory and what it means for liberal democracy in the United States....
Our call this week, for paid subscribers, will be on Friday at 1 PM Eastern . That will be our new regular time. (West Coast subscribers, we’ve heard you.) Our guest will be Yale Philosophy Professor Jason Stanley, a world-renowned scholar of fascism and author of the new book, Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future . We’ll talk about what happened in Tuesday’s election and the fate of the struggle between liberal democracy and fascism in the United States. Paid sub...
Our guest is Gaza-born journalist, Muhammad Shehada, whose writing has been indispensable over the last year. While we usually reserve audio of our Friday zoom calls for paid subscribers, Muhammad’s description of life in Gaza, and life outside of Gaza when your family is there, was so eloquent and haunting that I felt it needed as wide a distribution as possible. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit peterbeinart.su...
The Consequences of a Trump Presidency Are Simply Too Dire This Week’s Call: Palestinian-American political strategist Rania Batrice Our guest this week will be Rania Batrice, former deputy campaign manager for the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign, and an advisor on paid media for the Uncommitted campaign. I don’t know if Rania agrees with my arguments for supporting Harris, but she’s one of the smartest and most ethical people in Democratic politics, and I’m keen to hear how she sees the election i...
Our guests are Efrat Machikawa and Boaz Atzili. Efrat’s uncle, Gadi Mozes, was abducted on October 7. Boaz's cousin, Aviv Atzili, was killed on October 7th in Kibbutz Nir Oz and his body was taken to Gaza. Aviv's wife, Liat Atzili, was released in the ceasefire and hostages deal in November. Both Efrat and Boaz are activists for a ceasefire. I’m grateful to them for taking the time to talk to me in this agonizing and critical moment. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with o...
There will be no zoom call this week. We’ll resume on Friday, November 1 at 11 AM with Seth Anziska discussing Israel’s invasion of Lebanon . My New Book Knopf will publish my new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza , on January 28 of next year. I hope the book will contribute, in some small way, to changing the conversation among Jews about what is being done in our name. But I’m keenly aware of two things: First, Jewish voices like mine usually get more attention in the US than do...
Our guest is the award-winning author and journalist, Ta-Nehisi Coates. His new book, The Message , chronicles his trip to Palestine and Israel (alongside trips to Senegal and South Carolina) and meditates on why some people’s stories are told and others are erased. We’ll talk about how he came to write about Israel-Palestine, about how victims become victimizers, about the backlash he’s experienced since the book came out, and about the forces that keep Black writers from shaping public debate ...
Our guest will be Trita Parsi , executive vice president of the Quincy Institute and one of the most thoughtful and best-informed observers in Washington about the relationship between Israel, Hezbollah and Iran. We’ll discuss Israel’s recent attack, US policy and the danger of a regional war. 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...
