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Peter Beinart
The Beinart Notebook
News Commentary
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A conversation about American foreign policy, Palestinian freedom and the Jewish people.
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187
04 December 2025
Jeremy Ben-Ami Thinks I Made a Mistake
Recently, Jeremy Ben-Ami wrote an essay criticizing my apology for speaking at Tel Aviv University. I thought it would be a good idea to have him on to explore our differences. 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
23 min
01 December 2025
The Trump administration’s dangerous obsession with Jews
A list of ways to help Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.This week’s call will be at a special time, WEDNESDAY at 1 PM. Given the controversy over my talk at Tel Aviv University, and subsequent apology, I thought it would be interesting to talk to two experts on boycotts: one South African and one Palestinian. Zackie Achmat is a veteran South African political activist and a leading...
6 min
21 November 2025
A Short History of the Gaza Strip
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.comAnne Irfan is an expert on Palestinian refugee rights, the UN and UNRWA. She is a Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies at University College London (UCL). She has previously taught at the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics, and the University of Sussex.I invited...
7 min
16 November 2025
The Life and Politics of Edward Said
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.comOur guest is Chapman University Professor Emeritus Nubar Hovsepian, author of the new book, Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual. We talked about Professor Hovsepian’s insights into Said, his close friend, and about what we might learn from Said’s work for this moment in Israel-Palestine...
10 min
14 November 2025
A Conversation with Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove
Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove is the rabbi of the Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City. He has written for a variety of Jewish publications, including The Jewish Week and The Forward. He is the author of the 2024 book “For Such a Time as This: On Being Jewish Today” and the host of the podcast Common Faith.We have some strong disagreements so I’m grateful that he was willing to come on and discuss them...
55 min
10 November 2025
When Equality Feels like a Mortal Threat
A list of ways to help Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.This Friday’s Zoom call will be at 1 PM Eastern, our usual time. Our guest will be Chapman University Professor Emeritus Nubar Hovsepian, author of the new book, Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual. We’ll talk about Professor Hovsepian’s insights into Said, his close friend, and about what we might learn from...
6 min
09 November 2025
What Zohran Mamdani's Election Tells Us About the Politics of Israel-Palestine
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.comOur guests are Palestinian-American Georgia State Representative, and gubernatorial candidate, Ruwa Romman, who was denied the chance to speak at last year’s Democratic convention, and former Obama speechwriter Ben Rhodes, co-host of the podcast, Pod Save the World.
12 min
03 November 2025
What Will Establishment Jewish Leaders Sacrifice to Defeat Mamdani?
A list of ways to help Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.This Friday’s Zoom call will be at 1 PM Eastern, our usual time. We’ll talk about the New York mayoral race’s ramifications for the Israel-Palestine debate nationally. Our guests will be Palestinian-American Georgia State Representative, and gubernatorial candidate, Ruwa Romman, who was denied the chance to speak at last year’s...
8 min
02 November 2025
How Zohran Became Possible
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.comOur guest is Jonathan Mahler, a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine and author of the new book, Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990. With New York on the verge of electing a socialist, Muslim, anti-Zionist mayor, I ask Jonathan how the city...
10 min
31 October 2025
“What If We Didn’t Suck?”
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.comKat Abughazaleh, the 26-year-old Palestinian-American running for Congress in Illinois’s Ninth District, has been federally indicted after being arrested at an ICE protest. We talk about that and about her vision for a revitalized Democratic Party.
6 min