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The Last Word: Conversations with WritersPeter BeinartI’m joined today by contributor to The New York Times and editor-at-large of Jewish Currents, Peter Beinart, Professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York to discuss his provocative new book, Being Jewish After The Destruction of Gaza. Joining me in the studio is clinical social worker, Marcelle Grant, who is one of the organizers of Peter Beinart’s talk in Santa Fe on October 20th. A must-listen episode about a controversial book and a critically-defining period in our global experience. More at peterbeinart.substack.com Register for his free talk at beinartinsantafe@gmail.com
2025-10-1722 min
The Beinart NotebookThank God the Israeli Hostages Are Coming HomeA list of ways to help Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.If you’re in the US, consider joining the nationwide No Kings protests on October 18.This Friday’s Zoom call will be at 1 PM Eastern, our usual time. Our guest will be Israeli-born historian Ilan Pappe, author of the new book, Israel on the Brink. I’ll ask Pappe why he chose a life of political rebellion against the state in which he was born and what he thinks the ceasefire in Gaza will bring. We’ll also talk about his book, which su...
2025-10-1307 min
Bad Hasbara - The World's Most Moral Podcast149: I'm Gonna Git You Sukkah, with Peter BeinartMatt and Daniel are joined by author Peter Beinart to examine the toll taken by supremacist ideology, the curious demographics of the various “top anti-semites” lists, and Van Jones’ trajectory through the Activist-To-Embarrassing One’s Self On Real Time With Bill Maher pipeline.Please donate to Bridge Of Solidarity: https://chuffed.org/project/bridgeofsolidarityJoin the patreon at https://www.patreon.com/badhasbaraThe Beinart Notebook: https://peterbeinart.substack.com/Jewish Currents: https://jewishcurrents.org/Being Jewish...
2025-10-071h 23
The Beinart NotebookIt’s a Blessing if the Hostages Go Free and the Bombs StopA list of ways to help Palestinians in Gaza.This Friday’s Zoom call will be at 1 PM Eastern, our usual time. Our guests will be the former PLO negotiator Hussein Agha and the former Clinton, Obama and Biden administration official, Rob Malley. They’ll talk about their new book, Tomorrow is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine. I’ll ask what they’ve learned from decades of seeing Israeli, Palestinian and American policy from the inside.Cited in Today’s VideoYeshayahu Leibowitz’s essay on colonialism and terroris...
2025-10-0607 min
The Beinart NotebookDays of JudgementA list of ways to help Palestinians in Gaza.This Friday’s Zoom call will be at 1 PM Eastern, our usual time. Our guest will be the Palestinian journalist and activist Ahmed Abu Artema, a co-organizer of Gaza’s 2018 Great March of Return. In October 2023, Israel killed his eldest son, Abdullah. A few weeks ago, he left Gaza for the Netherlands. He wrote about his departure in the Dutch newspaper, De Correspondent. I’ll ask what it’s like to survive a genocide and live with the memory of those who did not.Things to Read...
2025-09-2907 min
MiddayAs horrors abound in Gaza, author Peter Beinart appeals for human dignity for all and a new Jewish identityAt sundown tonight, Jewish people around the world will begin the observance of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Next week is Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. The High Holidays are a time of connecting to Jewish heritage and traditions, and a time of reflection, self-examination and repentance.
Today on Midday, we speak to the author of a new book that explores these ancient themes in the context of a modern horror; Israel's war in the Gaza Strip.
Peter Beinart, an acclaimed journalist and public intellectual, is an observant Jew who has thought deeply about strife...
2025-09-2248 min
The Beinart NotebookThe Other Political ViolencePlease Help Palestinians in Gaza.There is no Zoom call this Friday. We’ll return on Friday, October 3.With the Jewish High Holidays approaching, I’m opening up for all readers my conversation with Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, former chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, who argues that what Israel is doing in Gaza and the West Bank constitutes a stain on Judaism itself.Cited in Today’s VideoEzra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates on the murder of Charlie Kirk.Things to Read(Maybe this should be obvious, but I...
2025-09-2206 min
The Beinart NotebookJe Ne Suis Pas CharlieAn Auction to Support the People of GazaWEDNESDAY Zoom CallThis week’s Zoom call will be at a special time, WEDNESDAY at 1 PM Eastern. Our guest will be Avrum Burg, the former speaker of the Knesset, who has been using traditional Jewish religious forms in remarkable ways to challenge the genocide in Gaza. He has authored a poem entitled, “If God Were in the Heavens of Gaza” and a Kaddish “for the blessed memory of all innocent” victims. He will read them during our Zoom call, and we will discuss, in these days leading up...
2025-09-1506 min
The Beinart NotebookNelson Mandela’s Grandson Is RightFriday Zoom CallThis Friday’s Zoom call will be at 1 PM Eastern, our usual time. Our guest will be Abdullah Awwad, a doctor in the orthopedic department of the Al Shifa Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. In his Go Fund Me page, he writes that his “once-vibrant city has been reduced to rubble” and that “we are currently living in overcrowded shelters, struggling for basic necessities like food, clean water, and medical supplies.” I’ll ask him what it’s like to work as a doctor in Gaza today.The live call will be for paid su...
2025-09-0807 min
The Beinart NotebookNo, You Don’t Support the Two State SolutionA new way to donate to people in Gaza.Friday Zoom CallThis Friday’s Zoom call, for paid subscribers, will be at 1 PM Eastern, our usual time. Our guest will be the renowned activist and educator Angela Davis. We’ll talk about how the Palestinian freedom struggle resembles, and differs from, the struggles of other oppressed groups, and what US policy toward Israel-Palestine says about the United States. This call will be cosponsored by Jewish Currents.Cited in Today’s VideoAdam Friedland interviews Ritchie Torres.Israel moves closer...
2025-09-0107 min
People Jew Wanna KnowPeter Beinart: The Case Against ZionismPeter Beinart is one of the most provocative voices in Jewish public life today—a journalist, commentator, and professor who critiques long-held assumptions about Israel, Zionism, and Jewish identity.In this episode of People Jew Wanna Know, Margarita pushes Peter on everything from Zionism's purpose to the future of a binational state. Follow Peter on X @PeterBeinart and on Instagram @Peter_BeinartSupport our work: buymeacoffee.com/peoplejewwannaknowWhat We Discuss: 00:00 Intro & Episode Agenda 09:34 Peter's upbringing & how it shaped his view of Israel ...
2025-08-2743 min
The Beinart NotebookWhy Can Jonathan Greenblatt Lie With Impunity?A new way to donate to people in Gaza.Friday Zoom CallThis Friday’s Zoom call, for paid subscribers, will be at 1 PM Eastern, our usual time. Our guest will be Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian-American green card holder abducted by the Trump administration in retaliation for his activism at Columbia University— and later released. We’ll talk about his childhood in the West Bank, his experience at Columbia, his detention, and what he’s learned from the experience.Ask Me AnythingOur next Ask Me Anything session, for premium subscribers, will be...
2025-08-2508 min
The Beinart NotebookHarvard Must Not SurrenderA new way to donate to people in Gaza.Friday Zoom CallThis Friday’s Zoom call, for paid subscribers, will be at 1 PM Eastern, our usual time. Our guest will be Abdul El-Sayed, a child of Egyptian immigrants to the US, a Rhodes Scholar, a graduate of Columbia University Medical School and currently a Democratic candidate for the Senate in Michigan. I’m not endorsing Abdul’s candidacy (or anyone else’s), but I’m keen to talk to him about being an Arab and Muslim American politician in the age of Trump and about the...
2025-08-1807 min
The Beinart NotebookThe Dam BreaksA new way to donate to people in Gaza.Friday Zoom CallThis Friday’s Zoom call, for paid subscribers, will be at 1 PM Eastern, our usual time. Our guest will be the children’s educator and entertainer Rachel Griffin-Accurso, better known as Ms. Rachel, who is often described as this generation’s Mr. Rogers. We’ll talk about her decision— despite outside pressure— to denounce the killing and starving of children in Gaza. This conversation will be cosponsored with Jewish Currents.Cited in Today’s VideoRichie Torres’ tweet about aid to Gaza....
2025-08-0410 min
The Daily Show: Ears EditionTrump Bombarded by Epstein Q's in Scotland, MAGA “Caddies” Provide Cover Back Home | Peter BeinartJon Stewart dives into Trump's golf shenanigans in Scotland, the Republican “caddies” providing him cover on the Epstein scandal back home, and the possibility of a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell. Plus, Jessica Williams will NOT allow Beyoncé to be roped into Trump’s use of exceptional Black people as a distraction.
Editor-at-large of "Jewish Currents," who writes "The Beinart Notebook" on Substack, Peter Beinart sits down with Jon Stewart to discuss his book, "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning," and speaking out against Israel. They talk about learning from Jewish history to be the saviors...
2025-07-2950 min
Sydney Writers' FestivalPeter Beinart: Being Jewish After the Destruction of GazaAcclaimed columnist and political commentator Peter Beinart issues a bold appeal to rewrite the narrative of Jewish identity to embrace nuance, tradition and culture. Bringing together his personal experience and understanding of politics with history and a clear vision for the future, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning is a provocative work that grapples with persecution, victimhood, supremacy, morality and the distinction between the nation-state. Hear Peter tell a new story of Jewish identity in conversation with Debbie Whitmont. This episode was recorded live in May at the 2025 Sydney Writers’ Fest...
2025-07-2251 min
The Beinart NotebookZohran Mamdani Didn’t Lie on His College ApplicationEvery week I link to the GoFundMe page for Hossam and Mariam Alzweidi, who live in Gaza with their four children and have been injured by Israeli bombs and displaced ten times since October 7, and are trying to leave. I know putting up a Go Fund Me for one family is totally inadequate given the scale of the horror in Gaza, and the millions of people there who need our help— and most of all, need an end to this monstrous slaughter. Still, it’s something.Please considering helping.Friday Zoom Call: Special TimeTh...
2025-07-1408 min
Jewish Heretics PodcastPeter Beinart | Jewish Heretics Podcast #18On May 12, 2025, The United Jewish People’s Order presented an Evening with Peter Beinart, at Parkdale Hall in downtown Toronto. The event was an opportunity for representatives from an array of progressive, Jewish organizations to ask Mr. Beinart questions related to his latest book, Being Jewish After The Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning.
2025-07-0259 min
Joan Esposito (Featured Interviews)WCPT 820 Interview: Peter BeinartJoan Esposito is joined by Peter Beinart, editor-at-large for Jewish Currents, professor of journalism at the City University of New York, and author of the 2025 book “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning.” In the interview Beinart described the Israeli destruction of Gaza as possibly "the worst series of war crimes of the 21st century." "Gaza only has 2 million people," he told WCPT, "but the number of people who've been killed just dwarfs, for instance, Ukraine, which has, I think, 40 million people. You have most of the buildings, most of the hospitals, most of th...
2025-07-0123 min
Alan Skorski ReportsEP 18 With CUNY Law Professor Jeff Lax: Exposing Peter Beinart for refusing to call Hamas a "Terrorist Group."Over the last few weeks, CUNY Law Professor and Board member, Jeff Lax, exposed the blatant antisemitism at the highest levels at CUNY, who hired Saly Abd Alla, a radical member of CAIR, to oversee allegations of antisemitism at CUNYLast week, Professor Lax was interviewed by well-known Israel-cbasher, Peter Beinart, over Hunter College's job posting looking for instructors to teach about Israel being a 'settler-colonial state,' that is 'apartheid' and engages in 'genocide.' During the debate, Lax discredited Hunter College and Beinart over these allegations. Furthermore, Lax boxed Beinart into a corner after he refused...
2025-06-0843 min
Eli HassellThe Case Against Zionism - Peter Beinart | Audio ExclusivePeter Beinart is a political analyst for MSNBC and contributor to The New York Times. His new book is called ‘Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza’.___Find Peter’s book on Amazon https://a.co/d/52ivE6fConnect with me:► Twitter https://twitter.com/eli_hassell► Instagram https://www.instagram.com/eli.hassell/► Business email: sales@elihassell.com___SUBSCRIBE NOW for more 👇
2025-06-0536 min
The Social ChemistBeing Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza w/ Peter BeinartSend us a textOn today's episode, I am joined by Peter Beinart, a professor of journalism and political science at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York and author of "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza". A book that assesses how the Zionist movement has rationalized the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza after the October 7th terrorist attacks in Israel, and why the current Israeli policies towards Palestine are contributing to the next generation of jihadist terrorists. InstagramThe Social Chemist (@socialchemistig) • Instagram pho...
2025-04-2732 min
Public Research Podcast with Daniel SchwartzThe Beinart Vision - Ep. 41 - Peter Beinart - Public ResearchThe Beinart Vision - Ep. 41 - Peter Beinart - Public Research with Daniel Schwartz On this episode of Public Research Peter Beinart discusses everything from the war of 1948, the future of the law of return for Jews under a one state solution, Zionism as a means of Jewish safety, questions of genocide and much more.Peter Beinart is an American journalist, political commentator, and professor of journalism and political science at the City University of New York. He is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, editor-at-large at Jewish Currents...
2025-04-2528 min
Langsomme samtalerPeter Beinart: Der er ingen kræfter i verden lige nu, der kan stoppe ødelæggelsen af Gaza og det palæstinensiske folkHvad fortæller amerikanske jøder sig selv for at kunne ignorere palæstinensernes skrig? Og hvad vil det sige at være jødisk efter Israels ødelæggelse af Gaza? Det taler Rune Lykkeberg med den amerikanske forfatter, podcastvært og professor i journalistik, Peter Beinart, om i denne uges udgave af Langsomme samtaler
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2025-04-1641 min
Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast‘Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza’ with Peter BeinartWe’re now a year and a half into the war in Gaza. Our guest this week has spent a lot of time thinking and writing about all that has unfolded. Peter Beinart is the author of numerous books including his latest, “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning” and writes “The Beinart Notebook” on Substack. He’s also an MSNBC analyst and the editor-at-large of “Jewish Currents.” He joins WITHpod to discuss what the war in Gaza has revealed about American Judaism, why he says Jews must tell a new story, what his vision of the future is and mo...
2025-04-1555 min
Current AffairsBeing Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza (W/Peter Beinart)🦩 This episode originally aired on March 18, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Peter Beinart is one of the most important Jewish intellectuals writing about Israel today. A professor, journalist, and former liberal Zionist, Beinart has undergone a profound personal and political transformation over the course of his career. In this episode, he joins Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss his new book Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning. Together, they explore the religious, political, and moral narratives that have shaped Jewish identity in relation to Zionism, and why Beinart now bel...
2025-04-0521 min
Middle East Monitor ConversationsThe moral reckoning of Jewish identity: MEMO in Conversation with Peter BeinartThe genocide in Gaza has raised an important matter, Jews are not facing an existential crisis concerning the state of Israel, but a moral one — one that could reshape Jewish tradition more profoundly than any crisis in centuries, Beinart says.Cast as a Cassandra figure within the Jewish community, Peter Beinart has been both celebrated and excommunicated for his outspoken criticism of Zionism and Israel’s policies. In the wake of the Gaza genocide, he argues that Jews are not facing an existential crisis concerning the state of Isra...
2025-04-0223 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinPETER BEINART: Reckoning With A ReckoningSend us a textThose of us who follow the Middle East intensely, reading about it constantly, understand that our reactions are never dispassionate. Peter Beinart knows this all too well. For decades, his writing and television appearances have garnered plenty of praise and plenty of criticism, even vitriol. And that reality won’t likely change with his new book “Being Jewish After The Destruction Of Gaza: A Reckoning.” Beinart argues that it’s a reckoning that far too few American Jews are having. You may love the book. You may hate the book. But it’s...
2025-03-2328 min
Haaretz PodcastPeter Beinart: 'I feared ethnic cleansing on a large scale, but I couldn't imagine Gaza'Peter Beinart’s new book, “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning” confronts his “horror” - even as a long-time harsh critic of Israeli policies - at the devastation that has taken place over the past 15 months. “In 2023, I wrote about my concerns about the possibility of ethnic cleansing on a large scale, as opposed to the small scale ethnic cleansing that has been going on for years,” Beinart said, speaking on the Haaretz Podcast. “But I really could not imagine what we've seen in Gaza - which is basically the destruction of an entire society, most of...
2025-03-0537 min
Dilemma PodcastChosen People or Chosen Families: Judaism and The Destruction of Gaza with Peter BeinartIn this video, I talk with Peter Beinart about Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza and the cracks forming in Zionism. But first, I share a personal reflection: What if Judaism’s survival isn’t about being the Chosen People, but about Chosen Families? Could the very thing seen as a threat be what actually saves it? We dive into power, myth, and the future of Jewish identity in a post-Zionist world.00:00:00 Intro: The Unbroken Chain00:16:21 Inviting me back to Shabbat00:18:28 Dropping The Curtain Too Early on Jewish Stories of Victimhood00:21:31 When Did Peter See The Cracks in Zion...
2025-02-241h 10
Absorb This Ground-Breaking Full Audiobook — Perfect This Weekend.Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza by Peter BeinartPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/49834to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza
Author: Peter Beinart
Narrator: Peter Beinart
Format: mp3
Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
Release date: 02-20-25
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 2 ratings
Genres: Judaism
Publisher's Summary:
In Peter Beinart's view, one story dominates Jewish communal life: that of persecution and victimhood. It is a story that erases much of the nuance of Jewish religious tradition and warps our understanding of Israel and Palestine. After Gaza, where Jewish texts, history and language have been deployed to justify mass slaughter and starvation, Beinart argues, Jews...
2025-02-203h 34
The Israel ConversationWhat is Wrong with Peter Beinart? 424 What is Wrong with Peter Beinart?It took a while for Peter Beinart to come out with his book blaming Israel for the post October 7th world. Its an impressively anti Jewish document, masquerading as a moral cri de cœur. How do we explain Jewish antizionism in general? And how do we explain it when the Jew is an educated, and ritually observant, former Zionist? Can the guys get through this without losing their tempers? Which of them has a personal history with this controversial figure? Join us to find out!
2025-02-1940 min
NPR's Book of the DayA new book from Peter Beinart asks Jewish people to reimagine the Israeli statePeter Beinart, once a defender of the Israeli state, has become one of its sharpest critics. His new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, was born out of Beinart's personal struggle within the Jewish community in the wake of the war. In the book, Beinart makes an urgent appeal, asking his peers to imagine a world in which Palestinians and Israeli Jews share equal rights. In today's episode, Beinart joins NPR's Leila Fadel for a discussion that touches on the intertwined relationship between Israeli and Palestinian safety and how a reimagined Israeli state could lead to a better...
2025-02-1711 min
The Nation PodcastsAmerican Jews, Israel, and Palestine w/ Peter Beinart | American PrestigeOn this episode of American Prestige, Peter Beinart speaks with Danny and Derek about his book Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning, American Jews’ conception of and relationship with Israel, and how things have changed since the start of the genocide in Gaza. They explore why Peter centers being Jewish at this moment, what he’s seen happen in the Jewish community since October 7, Palestinian dehumanization among American Jews, liberal Zionism and the two-state solution, the loss of agency for Palestinians, American Jewish institutions, and more.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands...
2025-02-1157 min
New Books in Israel StudiesViolent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on Long-Distance Israeli Ethnonationalism (LA, AS)Political anthropologists Ajantha Subramanian and Lori Allen are back to continue RTB's Violent Majorities series with a set of three episodes on long-distance ethno-nationalism. Today, they speak with Peter Beinart (an editor at Jewish Currents and Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York) about his just-released book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning (Knopf, 2025). It aims to mobilize Jewish religious ethics and teachings to reach a Jewish-American audience shaped by Zionism. Beinart seeks to debunk myths that prevent many from realizing that the moral abominations committed against Palestinians are part of the Isra...
2025-02-0654 min
Recall This Book143 Violent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on Long-Distance Israeli Ethnonationalism (LA, AS)Political anthropologists Ajantha Subramanian and Lori Allen are back to continue RTB's Violent Majorities series with a set of three episodes on long-distance ethno-nationalism. Today, they speak with Peter Beinart (an editor at Jewish Currents and Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York) about his just-released book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning (Knopf, 2025). It aims to mobilize Jewish religious ethics and teachings to reach a Jewish-American audience shaped by Zionism. Beinart seeks to debunk myths that prevent many from realizing that the moral abominations committed against Palestinians are part of the Isra...
2025-02-0654 min
New Books in AnthropologyViolent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on Long-Distance Israeli Ethnonationalism (LA, AS)Political anthropologists Ajantha Subramanian and Lori Allen are back to continue RTB's Violent Majorities series with a set of three episodes on long-distance ethno-nationalism. Today, they speak with Peter Beinart (an editor at Jewish Currents and Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York) about his just-released book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning (Knopf, 2025). It aims to mobilize Jewish religious ethics and teachings to reach a Jewish-American audience shaped by Zionism. Beinart seeks to debunk myths that prevent many from realizing that the moral abominations committed against Palestinians are part of the Isra...
2025-02-0656 min
New Books in Political ScienceViolent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on Long-Distance Israeli Ethnonationalism (LA, AS)Political anthropologists Ajantha Subramanian and Lori Allen are back to continue RTB's Violent Majorities series with a set of three episodes on long-distance ethno-nationalism. Today, they speak with Peter Beinart (an editor at Jewish Currents and Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York) about his just-released book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning (Knopf, 2025). It aims to mobilize Jewish religious ethics and teachings to reach a Jewish-American audience shaped by Zionism. Beinart seeks to debunk myths that prevent many from realizing that the moral abominations committed against Palestinians are part of the Isra...
2025-02-0656 min
New Books in Jewish StudiesViolent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on Long-Distance Israeli Ethnonationalism (LA, AS)Political anthropologists Ajantha Subramanian and Lori Allen are back to continue RTB's Violent Majorities series with a set of three episodes on long-distance ethno-nationalism. Today, they speak with Peter Beinart (an editor at Jewish Currents and Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York) about his just-released book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning (Knopf, 2025). It aims to mobilize Jewish religious ethics and teachings to reach a Jewish-American audience shaped by Zionism. Beinart seeks to debunk myths that prevent many from realizing that the moral abominations committed against Palestinians are part of the Isra...
2025-02-0656 min
New Books in Middle Eastern StudiesViolent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on Long-Distance Israeli Ethnonationalism (LA, AS)Political anthropologists Ajantha Subramanian and Lori Allen are back to continue RTB's Violent Majorities series with a set of three episodes on long-distance ethno-nationalism. Today, they speak with Peter Beinart (an editor at Jewish Currents and Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York) about his just-released book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning (Knopf, 2025). It aims to mobilize Jewish religious ethics and teachings to reach a Jewish-American audience shaped by Zionism. Beinart seeks to debunk myths that prevent many from realizing that the moral abominations committed against Palestinians are part of the Isra...
2025-02-0656 min
New Books in Politics and PolemicsViolent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on Long-Distance Israeli Ethnonationalism (LA, AS)Political anthropologists Ajantha Subramanian and Lori Allen are back to continue RTB's Violent Majorities series with a set of three episodes on long-distance ethno-nationalism. Today, they speak with Peter Beinart (an editor at Jewish Currents and Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York) about his just-released book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning (Knopf, 2025). It aims to mobilize Jewish religious ethics and teachings to reach a Jewish-American audience shaped by Zionism. Beinart seeks to debunk myths that prevent many from realizing that the moral abominations committed against Palestinians are part of the Isra...
2025-02-0656 min
New Books in Critical TheoryViolent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on Long-Distance Israeli Ethnonationalism (LA, AS)Political anthropologists Ajantha Subramanian and Lori Allen are back to continue RTB's Violent Majorities series with a set of three episodes on long-distance ethno-nationalism. Today, they speak with Peter Beinart (an editor at Jewish Currents and Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York) about his just-released book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning (Knopf, 2025). It aims to mobilize Jewish religious ethics and teachings to reach a Jewish-American audience shaped by Zionism. Beinart seeks to debunk myths that prevent many from realizing that the moral abominations committed against Palestinians are part of the Isra...
2025-02-0656 min
The Al Franken PodcastPeter Beinart on Israel and GazaWith a confusing ceasefire deal underway in Gaza, we take a look at the path forward with Peter Beinart. Beinart serves as editor-at-large for Jewish Currents, is a frequent analyst on MSNBC, and has authored a new book, "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning." The book examines the history of Israel and how Jews have responded to the events of October 7th and its horrifying aftermath. Beinart discusses Israeli power and his hopes for its "moral reconstruction." We also discuss both Joe Biden's role in the conflict and how the region moves forward with the questionable leadershi...
2025-02-0237 min
You Decide with Errol LouisPeter Beinart: Being Jewish as Gaza crumblesAfter 15 months, the Israel-Hamas war has reached a ceasefire deal. Israeli troops have pulled back to the edges of Gaza and some hostages have been released by their Hamas captors. Many Palestinians are returning to what remains of their homes with humanitarian aid flowing into the region. As Palestinians begin rebuilding, Peter Beinart is exploring the defense of Israel by some of his fellow Jews in a new book, "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning." Beinart, a professor at the Newmark School of Journalism at the City University of New York, joined NY1's Errol...
2025-01-3026 min
Social Justice & Activism - The Creative Process - Activists, Environmental, Indigenous Groups, Artists and Writers Talk Diversity, Equity and inclusionBeing Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Conversation with PETER BEINARTIn this episode on Speaking Out of Place podcast Professor David Palumbo-Liu talks with Peter Beinart to discuss his new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza. We ask what led him to write this intense and intensely provocative book, which declares that Jews “need a new story” other than the current one. Beinart argues, Jews see themselves as innocent with regard to the genocide in Gaza. I ask Peter to fully unpack this claim, among others: “Many Jews treat a Jewish state the way the Bible feared Jewish monarchs would treat themselves: as a higher power, b...
2025-01-2840 min
Speaking Out of PlaceAgainst “Jewish Innocence”: A Conversation with Peter Beinart on his new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza.Today on Speaking Out of Place we sit down with Peter Beinart to discuss his new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza. We ask what led him to write this intense, and intensely provocative book, which declares that Jews “need a new story” other than the current one, in which, Beinart argues, Jews see themselves as innocent with regard to the genocide in Gaza. I ask Peter to fully unpack this claim, among others: “Many Jews treat a Jewish state the way the Bible feared Jewish monarchs would treat themselv...
2025-01-2838 min
Get Hooked On The Most Next-Level Full Audiobook Today!Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza by Peter BeinartPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/27543to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza
Author: Peter Beinart
Narrator: Peter Beinart
Format: mp3
Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
Release date: 01-28-25
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 131 ratings
Genres: Middle East
Publisher's Summary:
In Peter Beinart’s view, one story dominates Jewish communal life: that of persecution and victimhood. It is a story that erases much of the nuance of Jewish religious tradition and warps our understanding of Israel and Palestine. After Gaza, where Jewish texts, history, and language have been deployed to justify mass slaughter and starvation, Beinart ar...
2025-01-283h 34Enjoy The Inspiring Full Audiobook Now, Curious Minds!Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza by Peter BeinartPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/49767to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza
Author: Peter Beinart
Narrator: Peter Beinart
Format: mp3
Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
Release date: 01-28-25
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 131 ratings
Genres: Judaism
Publisher's Summary:
In Peter Beinart’s view, one story dominates Jewish communal life: that of persecution and victimhood. It is a story that erases much of the nuance of Jewish religious tradition and warps our understanding of Israel and Palestine. After Gaza, where Jewish texts, history, and language have been deployed to justify mass slaughter and starvation, Beinart argues, Je...
2025-01-283h 34
Occupied ThoughtsA toxic environment for those who dare to question: Prof. Katherine Franke w/ Peter BeinartIn this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart interviews Professor Katherine Franke, former faculty at Columbia University’s law school, about student activism and escalating repression at Columbia since October 7th, 2023. Katherine Franke just retired from Columbia, saying “I have come to the view that the Columbia University administration has created such a toxic and hostile environment for legitimate debate around the war in Israel and Palestine that I can no longer teach or conduct research.” Peter and Katherine discuss the specific circumstances that led to Katherine's retirement, including extensive harassment; the conflation of Palestinian rights advocacy with antise...
2025-01-2248 min
The Beinart NotebookBrutalizing the StrangerOur 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, and then once it airs...
2024-11-1808 min
The Beinart NotebookIf I Lived In a Swing State, I’d Vote for HarrisThe Consequences of a Trump Presidency Are Simply Too DireThis Week’s Call: Palestinian-American political strategist Rania BatriceOur 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 in its final days.Our call, for paid sub...
2024-10-2811 min
The Beinart NotebookIsrael’s Been Assassinating Palestinian Leaders For DecadesThere 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 BookKnopf 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 Palestinian ones. Second, while...
2024-10-2109 min
The Beinart NotebookThe Biden Administration’s Backdoor EthnonationalismShouldn’t the US Care as Much about Americans Killed by the IDF as it Cares about Americans Killed by Hamas?Our call this week will be at our new regular time: Friday at 11 AM Eastern.Our guest will be Simon Fitzgerald, a trauma surgeon in Brooklyn who has worked in telemedicine in Gaza, particularly at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis with Dr. Khaled Alser. According to colleagues, Dr. Alser has been abducted by Israeli forces and tortured at Ofer Prison and at the notorious Sde Teiman prison camp in the Negev Desert. Dr...
2024-09-0905 min
The Beinart NotebookLet Zionists SpeakOur call this week will be at a special time: Wednesday at 11 AM EasternOur 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.Paid subscribers will get the link this Tuesday and the video the following week. They’ll also gain access to our library of past Zoom interviews with guests like Rashid Khalidi, Thomas Friedman, Ilhan...
2024-08-2605 min
The Beinart NotebookJoe Biden is Not a HeroOur call this week will be at our new regular time: Friday at 11 AM Eastern.Our guest will Joshua Leifer, author of the new book, Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life. It’s the best history of American Jewish politics I’ve read and offers a provocative analysis of the American Jewish future.Paid subscribers will get the link this Tuesday and the video the following week. They’ll also gain access to our library of past Zoom interviews with guests like Rashid Khalidi, Thomas Friedman, Ilhan...
2024-08-1903 min
The Beinart NotebookHamas Is Not Iran’s “Proxy”Our call this week will be at our new regular time: Friday at 11 AM Eastern.Our guest will Abdullah Hammoud, the mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, the largest city with an Arab-American majority in the United States. We’ll talk about how residents of Dearborn have reacted to the war in Gaza and whether Kamala Harris is doing enough to win their votes.Paid subscribers will get the link this Tuesday and the video the following week. They’ll also gain access to our library of past Zoom interviews with guests like Rashid Khalidi, Thomas Friedman, Ilha...
2024-08-1209 min
The Beinart NotebookIf You Can’t Win One War, Start an Even Bigger OneOur call this week will be at our new regular time: Friday at 11 AM Eastern.Given the growing chance of a regional war in the Middle East, our guest will be one of the best analysts of Palestinian and Middle Eastern politics, Mouin Rabbani, Co-Editor of Jadaliyya, a publication of the Arab Studies Institute, and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies. We’ll talk about the attack in Majdal Shams, the spate of recent Israeli assassinations, and the potential for a conflict that envelopes the entire region.Paid subscribers will ge...
2024-08-0509 min
The Beinart NotebookYou Can’t Claim to Defend Liberal Democracy and Attend Netanyahu’s Speech to CongressPaid subscribers will get the link to Friday Zoom calls on Tuesdays and the video and podcast the following week. They’ll also gain access to our library of past Zoom interviews with guests like Rashid Khalidi, Thomas Friedman, Ilhan Omar, Omar Barghouti, Benny Morris, Noam Chomsky, and Bret Stephens.Sources Cited in this VideoSenator Josh Hawley’s speech at the National Conservativism Conference.Suzanne Schneider discusses Israel’s model for the nationalist right.Jeremy Scahill’s interview with Dr. Mohammed Al-Hindi, the deputy leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.Benjam...
2024-07-2308 min
The Beinart NotebookThis is Why the Two Parties Are Not the SameOur call this week will be at our new regular time: Friday at 11 AM Eastern.In light of Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the presidential race, we’re going to talk to two Democratic strategists about what happens now, and what impact it could have on US policy towards the Gaza War. Rania Batrice is a Palestinian-American political consultant. She served as deputy campaign manager for Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign and this year has been the media consultant for the Uncommitted campaign. Matt Duss is executive vice-president of the Center for International Policy and served...
2024-07-2204 min
The Beinart NotebookBiden’s View of the World is Also Too OldOur call this week will be at our new regular time: Friday at 11 AM Eastern.Our guest will be James Zogby, founder of the Arab American Institute, and a longtime member of the Democratic National Committee. Last week he offered a proposal for how to replace President Biden as the Democratic Party’s nominee. We’ll talk about the pressure inside the party on Biden to bow out, and what might happen if he does.Paid subscribers will get the link this Tuesday and the video the following week. They’ll also gain access to our li...
2024-07-0806 min
The Beinart NotebookWhy Are Democrats Afraid to Fight for Freedom? Our call this week will be at our new regular time: Friday at 11 AM Eastern.Our guest will be Rami Khouri, Distinguished Public Policy Fellow at the American University of Beirut, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Arab Center in Washington, DC, and a regular columnist for Al Jazeera online. Rami lived in Beirut for 17 years and has for many years written about relations between Israel and Lebanon. We’ll talk about the terrifying reports that a full-scale war may break out between Israel and Hezbollah.Paid subscribers will get the link this Tuesday and the vi...
2024-07-0111 min
The Beinart NotebookJamaal Bowman’s CourageI made a second video this week because I wanted to say something about Jamaal Bowman, who lost his primary race for Congress last night. He lost because he had the courage to visit the West Bank and speak about what he saw. He lost because he’s an unusual politician. He has moral courage.Sources Cited in This Video:A Politico article about Bowman’s trip to the West Bank.A Jewish Currents article I wrote about how Pro-Israel groups keep US foreign policy white.Our guests this Friday at 11 AM w...
2024-06-2610 min
The Beinart NotebookApocalyptic Thinking and Israel’s Looming War in LebanonOur call this week will be at a special time: Thursday at 11 AM Eastern.Our guest this week will be Geoffrey Levin, Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies at Emory University and author of the new book, Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978, which explores a largely unknown history of American Jewish criticism of Israel in the first decades of its existence, and how it was quashed. It’s a particularly relevant history today given the rise of Jewish organizing against the war in Gaza. Paid subscribers will get the...
2024-06-1707 min
The Beinart NotebookWho is Israeli?For the foreseeable future, our Zoom calls will be held at a new time: Friday at 11 AM Eastern.Our guest this week will be Raef Zreik, associate professor of Jurisprudence at Ono Academic College in Israel, a senior researcher at the Jerusalem Van Leer Institute, and a former member of the executive committee of Balad, one of Israel’s predominantly Palestinian parties. He’s one of the most brilliant theorists of Palestine and Israel, and I want to ask him to step back from the nightmarish events of the moment to talk about their long-term consequences for rela...
2024-06-1006 min
The Beinart NotebookThe Strangeness of US Policy Toward IsraelFor the foreseeable future, our Zoom calls will be held at a new time: Friday at 11 AM Eastern.Our guest this week will be Congressman Ro Khanna, who represents the 17th district of California and is a leading progressive voice in Democratic foreign policy. He has called on Israel to immediately halt its attack on Rafah and also tried to convince protesters against the war to support Joe Biden’s reelection. We’ll talk about US policy toward the war, whether Biden can win back progressives who feel betrayed by it, and about the relationship between progressivism and...
2024-06-0305 min
The Beinart NotebookWhy the Biden Administration Didn’t Foresee the Progressive Outrage at its Gaza PolicyFor the foreseeable future, our Zoom calls will be held at a new time: Friday at 11 AM Eastern.Our guest this week will be Jamil Dakwar, a human rights lawyer, adjunct professor at New York University, and former senior attorney with Adalah, which advocates for the rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel. He’ll be speaking in his personal capacity. We’ll talk about the case against Israel at the International Court of Justice and the case against Israeli and Hamas leaders at the International Criminal Court.Paid subscribers will get the link this Tuesday and...
2024-05-2707 min
The Beinart NotebookThe Campus Protesters Are Winning— and Why That Means Greater Repression to ComeFor the foreseeable future, our Zoom calls will be held at a new time: Friday at 11 AM Eastern.Our guest this week will be Lily Greenberg Call, former Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff at the Department of Interior, who last week resigned to protest US policy in Gaza. She is the first Jewish Biden administration staffer to resign over the war. For ten years, until 2022, she was a youth activist for AIPAC. Her resignation constitutes perhaps the most remarkable illustration yet of the speed with which many young American Jews are abandoning previously held views...
2024-05-2011 min
The Beinart NotebookThe Campus Protests Make Me Uncomfortable. And They Fill Me with Hope.Our Zoom call this week will be at our regular time: Noon on Friday.Our guests will be two Columbia University undergraduates with differing views on the protests at their campus: Ilan Cohen, a senior who attends Columbia and the Jewish Theological Seminary, and Gabi Frants, a senior who attends Barnard College. They’ll talk about the student movement that has swept Columbia, and the nation.Paid subscribers will get the link this Tuesday night and the video the following week. They’ll also gain access to our library of past Zoom interviews with guests like...
2024-04-2811 min
The Beinart NotebookWhere are Our Jews?Our Zoom call this week will be at the usual time: Friday at Noon EST.Our guests will be James Zogby, President and Co-Founder of the Arab American Institute, and Abdelnasser Rashid, a Palestinian-American State Representative from Illinois. We’ll talk about how the war in Gaza is affecting Arab Americans and whether they will vote for Joe Biden this fall.Paid subscribers will get the link this Tuesday and the video the following week. They’ll also gain access to our library of past Zoom interviews with guests like Rashid Khalidi, Thomas Friedman, Ilhan Omar...
2024-02-1211 min
Parallax Views w/ J.G. MichaelThe Future of Israelis & Palestinians Are Intertwined: Peter Beinart on His Belief in a Single Democratic State, Gaza, and More
On this edition of Paralalx Views, Peter Beinart, the Editor-at-Large for Jewish Current and author of The Beinart Notebook Substack, joins the show to discuss his views on Israel/Palestine amidst the war in Gaza. In his 2020 Jewish Currents article "Yavne: A Jewish Case for Equality in Israel-Palestine", Beinart definitively moved on from his two-state solution position on Israel/Palestine by declaring, "The two-state solution is dead. It’s time for liberal Zionists to abandon Jewish–Palestinian separation and embrace equality." In other words, he became a proponent of a One Democratic State solution for Israel/Palestine that...
2024-01-2640 min
The Beinart NotebookJewish Scholars vs. Jewish Donors on AntisemitismOur 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 race structures debates over America’s role in the world.Paid subscribers will get the link this Tuesday and the video the following week. They’ll also gain access to our library...
2024-01-2208 min
The Beinart NotebookChallenging Israel’s Legitimacy Also Challenges America’sOur 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 of Justice charging Israel with genocide for its actions since October 7, I want to ask Omer what he thinks of that legal argument. In the wake...
2024-01-0811 min
The Beinart NotebookElise Stefanik, University Presidents, and the Politics of DistractionOur 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 and the risks that Israel’s Gaza war could convulse the entire Middle East.As usual, paid subscribers will get the link this Tues...
2023-12-1116 minLangsomme samtalerPeter Beinart: Palæstinas frihed er Israels fredI denne udgave af Langsomme Samtaler taler Rune Lykkeberg med den jødiske forfatter og professor i statskundskab og journalistik på City University of New York o Peter Beinart. Med rødder i Sydafrika er Beinart blevet en af USA´s store liberale intellektuelle i konflikten mellem Israel-Palæstina. Som få andre mestrer Beinart at kunne rumme to modsatrettede tanker i konflikten på én gang. Til sidst i samtalen får Beinart derfor også lov til at give sit bud på, hvordan han forestiller sig fred kan opstå i Israel og Palæstina.
2023-11-1533 min
RevDem PodcastPeter Beinart on Resistance and De-EscalationIn this conversation with RevDem editor Ferenc Laczó, Peter Beinart discusses forms of ethical and unethical Palestinian resistance and the complex relationship between condemning and contextualizing mass crimes; explains why he thinks ongoing Israeli military efforts are not only morally wrong but also likely to prove counterproductive; points to ways that Israeli Jews and Palestinians may be brought together now to recognize their intertwined tragedies – and reflects on how he balances his Jewish familial obligations and the universalistic ethical message about the dignity of all people in the current moment of despair and rage.
Peter Beinart is professor of journalism and...
2023-11-1017 min
Wisdom of CrowdsPeter Beinart on Israel, Hamas, and Why Nonviolence FailedThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.liveTwo weeks after Hamas’s brutal attack on Israeli civilians, tensions have skyrocketed as Israel begins an offensive against Gaza from the air and the ground as the area home to over a half million Palestinians is plunged into darkness. What could have been done to avoid this renewed war and what are the best possible paths toward ending violence?This week, Shadi Hamid and Damir Marusic invite Peter Beinart on to discuss. Peter writes at his Substack, The Beinart No...
2023-10-2039 min
Know Your EnemyElon Musk, the Jews, and the ADL (w/ Mari Cohen, Alex Kane, & Peter Beinart)A few weeks ago, the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, eagerly joined in a campaign, originating on the far right, to demonize the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a century-old Jewish civil rights organization whose leaders have criticized Musk for allowing anti-semitic and white supremacist hate speech to proliferate on Twitter/X. To many progressives, it could sound like a simple story of good vs. evil — the righteous vs. the hateful — especially for those who've experienced the palpable flourishing of Nazi and Nazi-adjacent sentiment on Twitter/X since Musk purchased the platform.But for our guests — Mari Cohen...
2023-09-261h 05
Vision Magazine PodcastsTNS 064: Progress Requires Moving Past Liberal Zionism (with Peter Beinart)The State of Israel has many structures, policies & even foundational ideas in need of repair. But are liberal western political framings helpful when trying to resolve Israeli society's contradictions?
Yehuda HaKohen is joined by Peter Beinart of Jewish Currents to discuss Beinart's journey from the two-state Liberal Zionist paradigm to his current one-state position.
The two also talk about correct versus incorrect framings for understanding Israeli society, Jerusalem's new governing coalition's attempt to revive Liberal Zionism and the positive reception it's been receiving in the West.
2021-11-1836 min
Sulha - Israel, Palestine & Beyond.The Great Debate #39 - Envisioning a One State Reality w/ Peter Beinart & Yehuda HaKohenSend us a text This debate is all about disrupting the status quo and working towards a one-state reality. Two jews, one living in Israel, one in America, both working towards ending the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬★ MEET OUR GUESTS ★▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Peter Beinart is Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York. He is also a Contributing Opinion Writer at The New York Times, a CNN Political Commentator, Editor-at-Large of Jewish Currents and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace. He writes the Beinart Notebook newsletter on Substack.comGet in touch with Peter:Twitter: @P...
2021-03-2658 minOccupied ThoughtsOccupied Thoughts: Former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes with Peter BeinartPeter Beinart speaks to Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor from 2009-2017, about working on Israel, Palestine, and Iran in the Obama Administration. Rhodes draws insights from interactions with different lobby groups, presidential travel to Israel and a memorable meeting with young Palestinians in Ramallah, and talks about navigating the assumption by Israel advocates that Blackness translates into sympathy for Palestinians living under oppression. Beinart and Rhodes end the conversation with a discussion of the Biden administration and Democratic foreign policy advisors' approaches to the IHRA definition of antisemitism and Democrats' longstanding commitment to the concept of the two state...
2021-02-1144 minOccupied ThoughtsOccupied Thoughts: Except for Palestine: Peter Beinart w/ Marc Lamont Hill & Peter BeinartIn this episode of “Occupied Thoughts,” host Peter Beinart interviews Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick, co-authors of Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics. This wide-ranging discussion covers progressive politics on Palestine & Israel as they are today and as they might become if progressives engage more deeply and consistently with Palestine & Israel. Marc, Mitchell, and Peter talk about policy, history, and the different roles that racial, ethnic, and religious identities and communities play in progressive politics. This conversation is both timely and robust.
2021-01-2958 min
Occupied Thoughts"Israel's wars, and its Future" ft. Peter Beinart & Ami AyalonOn this episode of “Occupied Thoughts” FMEP non-resident fellow Peter Beinart is joined by Ami Ayalon - a retired commander of the Israeli navy, the former head of the Shin Bet (Israel’s top internal security agency), and a former member of the Knesset.
Peter and Ami discuss topics touched on in Ami's newly published memoir - "Friendly Fire: How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy, and the Hope for Its Future."
2020-09-0858 min
Then & NowReimagining Israel-Palestine: A Conversation with Peter Beinart on American Jews, Israel, and the the Principle of Equality for AllThe seemingly intractable Israel-Palestine conflict may well be moving into a new phase, one in which the long-dominant two-state solution is no longer viable or desirable to the parties involved. How did this occur? And what would replace it? Peter Beinart, noted journalist and editor-at-large of Jewish Currents magazine, recently published two pieces in the Jewish Currents and The New York Times about abandoning his own faith in the long-sought two-state solution. Beinart now proposes a vision of equality for all in a single state. He joins Then & Now in conversation with LCHP Director and UCLA professor of J...
2020-07-2055 min
Talking Tachlis Podcast115. Do We Need A Jewish State? A Conversation With Peter BeinartThis week, Uri and Rivky sit down for a thought-provoking conversation with journalist and political commentator Peter Beinart. Beinart has made a recent splash in his recent political conversion: he no longer believes in a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine; rather, Beinart sees hope in a single secular binational state, with equal rights for Jews and Palestinians. Uri and Rivky ask him about fears for this new state, if he's given up on both Israeli and Palestinian self-determination, and how Judaism has impacted his evolving thoughts. They also discuss antisemitism in America and in the Arab world, the symbolism...
2020-07-2054 min
NIF Australia PodcastPeter Beinart on Sanders, Biden, Trump, COVID and This Year's US ElectionsNIF Australia advisory council member Mark Baker joins US professor, author and political commentator Peter Beinart to discuss Donald Trump, the ongoing COVID crisis, the state of democracy in the US, the candidacies of Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, and annexation and democracy in Israel. Join more NIF Australia events at www.nif.org.au/events
2020-05-041h 01
The Gray Area with Sean IllingPeter Beinart on anti-Semitism in America and illiberalism in IsraelThis is a conversation I’ve been putting off, if I’m being honest. I can’t hold it from the safe space of journalistic distance. It’s about the strange, vulnerable space that many Jews, myself included, find themselves in today. The first part of this conversation is about being Jewish at a time of rising anti-Semitism in the Western world. The October massacre at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue was the worst act of anti-Semitic violence ever committed on American soil. In 2017, Charlottesville, Virginia, protesters waved torches while chanting “Jews will not replace us.” It’s often said that...
2018-11-291h 26
Judaism UnboundEpisode 117: Israel and American Jews Today - Peter BeinartAs we launch a new series considering the role that Israel might or might not play in the future of American Judaism, Dan and Lex are joined by writer and commentator Peter Beinart, Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York. 1 Beinart is also a contributing editor for The Atlantic and a senior columnist for The Forward. His 2010 article in The New York Review of Books predicted a widening gap between Israel and young American Jews, and his framing has shaped the American Jewish community's discussion ever since. In this episode, we explore generational d...
2018-05-1144 minOccupied ThoughtsJERUSALEM w/ Peter Beinart & Danny SeidemannIn the first episode of the Foundation for Middle East Peace’s new podcast, “Occupied Thoughts: Israel, Palestine & Peace,” Peter Beinart and Danny Seidemann discuss the current on-the-ground realities of Jerusalem – the epicenter of a religious, regional, and domestic conflict. Jerusalem is the most volatile “final status” issue of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the stark reality of Jerusalem’s divisions and the status of its Palestinian residents has huge implications for what is possible (and not) for a future agreement. Listen to Beinart & Seidemann discuss and debate the temperature on the streets, the peace initiative of President Trump, the meaning of “Zionism,”...
2017-07-0550 min
CUNY TV's City TalkCity Talk: Peter Beinart- US Policy After bin Laden, Pt 2/2Doug and author, political writer, journalist Peter Beinart talk about the historic results of American hubris, suggesting careful reflection of public and US foreign/military policy.
2011-05-1800 minCUNY TV's City TalkCity Talk: Peter Beinart- US Policy After bin Laden, Pt 1/2Doug and author, political writer, journalist Peter Beinart talk about America’s public and US foreign/military policy – post bin Laden.
2011-05-1100 min
Dive Into An Uplifting Full Audiobook And Elevate Your Mindset.The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris by Peter BeinartPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/62113to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris
Author: Peter Beinart
Narrator: John Morgan
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 18 hours 23 minutes
Release date: June 1, 2010
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Military
Publisher's Summary:
“Peter Beinart has written a vivid, empathetic, and convincing history of the men and ideas that have shaped the ambitions of American foreign policy during the last century—a story in which human fallibility and idealism flow together. The story continues, of course, and so his book is not only timely; it i...
2010-06-016h 23Experience A Powerful Full Audiobook On Your Commute.The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris by Peter BeinartPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/62113to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris
Author: Peter Beinart
Narrator: John Morgan
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 18 hours 23 minutes
Release date: June 1, 2010
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: The Americas
Publisher's Summary:
“Peter Beinart has written a vivid, empathetic, and convincing history of the men and ideas that have shaped the ambitions of American foreign policy during the last century—a story in which human fallibility and idealism flow together. The story continues, of course, and so his book is not only time...
2010-06-016h 23Start An Transformative Full Audiobook And Elevate Your Mindset.The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris by Peter BeinartPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/62113to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris
Author: Peter Beinart
Narrator: John Morgan
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 18 hours 23 minutes
Release date: June 1, 2010
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
“Peter Beinart has written a vivid, empathetic, and convincing history of the men and ideas that have shaped the ambitions of American foreign policy during the last century—a story in which human fallibility and idealism flow together. The story continues, of course, and so his book is not only timely; it i...
2010-06-016h 23
Get Your Favorite Full Audiobooks in History, WorldThe Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris by Peter BeinartPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/62113 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris Author: Peter Beinart Narrator: John Morgan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 23 minutes Release date: June 1, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: “Peter Beinart has written a vivid, empathetic, and convincing history of the men and ideas that have shaped the ambitions of American foreign policy during the last century—a story in which human fallibility and idealism flow together. The story continues, of course, and so his book is not only time...
2010-06-0105 minGet Your Favorite Full Audiobooks in History, WorldThe Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris by Peter BeinartPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/62113to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris
Author: Peter Beinart
Narrator: John Morgan
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 18 hours 23 minutes
Release date: June 1, 2010
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
“Peter Beinart has written a vivid, empathetic, and convincing history of the men and ideas that have shaped the ambitions of American foreign policy during the last century—a story in which human fallibility and idealism flow together. The story continues, of course, and so his book is not only timely; it i...
2010-06-016h 23
Listen to New Full Audiobooks in History, The AmericasThe Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris by Peter BeinartPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/62113 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris Author: Peter Beinart Narrator: John Morgan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 23 minutes Release date: June 1, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: “Peter Beinart has written a vivid, empathetic, and convincing history of the men and ideas that have shaped the ambitions of American foreign policy during the last century—a story in which human fallibility and idealism flow together. The story continues, of course, and so his book is not only...
2010-06-0105 min
Explore the Latest Full Audiobooks in History, MilitaryThe Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris by Peter BeinartPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/62113 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris Author: Peter Beinart Narrator: John Morgan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 23 minutes Release date: June 1, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: “Peter Beinart has written a vivid, empathetic, and convincing history of the men and ideas that have shaped the ambitions of American foreign policy during the last century—a story in which human fallibility and idealism flow together. The story continues, of course, and so his book is not only time...
2010-06-0105 min
Discover This Soul-Stirring Full Audiobook — Perfect Before Bedtime.The Good Fight by Peter BeinartPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247905to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Good Fight
Author: Peter Beinart
Narrator: David Slavin
Format: Abridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Release date: May 30, 2006
Genres: Lessons in Philosophy
Publisher's Summary:
Once upon a time, liberals knew what they believed. They believed America must lead the world by persuasion, not command. And they believed that by championing freedom overseas, America itself could become more free. That liberal spirit won America's trust at the dawn of the Cold War. Then it collapsed in the wake of Vietnam. Now, after 9/11, and the failed presidency of George W. Bush...
2006-05-306h 28Discover the Best Audio Stories in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsThe Good Fight by Peter BeinartPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247905to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Good Fight
Author: Peter Beinart
Narrator: David Slavin
Format: Abridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Release date: May 30, 2006
Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics
Publisher's Summary:
Once upon a time, liberals knew what they believed. They believed America must lead the world by persuasion, not command. And they believed that by championing freedom overseas, America itself could become more free. That liberal spirit won America's trust at the dawn of the Cold War. Then it collapsed in the wake of Vietnam. Now, after 9/11, and the failed presidency of George W...
2006-05-306h 28
the Best Audio Stories in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsThe Good Fight by Peter BeinartPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Good Fight Author: Peter Beinart Narrator: David Slavin Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 28 minutes Release date: May 30, 2006 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Once upon a time, liberals knew what they believed. They believed America must lead the world by persuasion, not command. And they believed that by championing freedom overseas, America itself could become more free. That liberal spirit won America's trust at the dawn of the Cold War. Then it collapsed in the wake of Vietnam. Now, after 9/11, and the failed presidency of George...
2006-05-3005 min