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The Beinart NotebookGideon Levy on Being HatedThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.comGideon 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.2025-01-1410 min
The Beinart NotebookJake Sullivan’s Mental Prison (A Sequel)The Outgoing National Security Advisor’s Orwellian Interview at the 92nd Street YOur 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’ve also recorded another Zoom video, without a live audience, with the longtime H...2025-01-1309 min
Parallax Views w/ J.G. MichaelIsraeli Politics from a Progressive Jewish-American Perspective w/ Abe Silberstein/Combating the Israeli Far-Right and Antisemitism at the Same Time w/ Stephen Zunes
On this edition of Parallax Views, we return to discussion of the rise of the far-right in Israel and the simultaneous spike in antisemitism happening in the U.S. In the first segment, journalist Abe Silberstein offers a progressive Jewish-American perspective on Israeli politics, Palestine, Netanyahu, the Religious Zionism Coalition, Yehudit Otzma and Itamar Ben-Gvir, J Street, non- and anti-Zionism, Peter Beinart and cultural Zionism, the Zionist Organization of America's (ZOA) Morton Klein and the Jewish-American fringe right-wing, gadfly Israeli journalist Gideon Levy and the Israeli left, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), racist and supremacist...2022-12-192h 17