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The Beinart Notebook — 280 episodes

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1

Repenting Through Listening

2

9/11, Twenty-Five Years On

3

Inside Biden’s Gaza Policy

4

Explanation Is Not Justification

5

Chris Rabb on Trying to be Progressive in a Democratic Party that Isn’t

6

Rabbi Yaacov Behrman and I Discuss Judaism, Zionism and Chabad

7

The Heckling of Brad Lander

8

The Rise of Islamophobia in America

9

The Full Cost of AIPAC’s Influence

10

Two Jews Debate Abdul El-Sayed

11

Settler Violence is State Violence

12

Norm Finkelstein

13

Rahm Emanuel and I Debate Israeli history

14

First They Came for Abdul El-Sayed

15

What do Anti-War Conservatives Believe?

16

How Abdul El-Sayed Won

17

The American Jewish Establishment Has Given Up on American Democracy

18

Thomas Wright on His Time on Biden’s National Security Council

19

The Incoherence of Blaming Mamdani for anti-Jewish Violence

20

“People’s Feet Need to be Held to the Fire.”

21

The Costs of Being Prematurely Correct

22

“There Are Lots of Members of Our Caucus Who Refuse to Recognize the Truth.”

23

The Pro-Israel Establishment’s Five Stages of Grief

24

Darializa Avila Chevalier on Zionism, October 8, and Her Experience in the West Bank

25

We Still Haven’t Said “Never Again”

26

“This Realignment is Happening.”

27

A Disagreement Among Old Friends

28

Reckoning with Anti-Israel Rage

29

“An Imperial Decline Story”

30

May “Ask Me Anything”

31

Israel’s Defenders Say Legal Equality Would Bring Repression and Bloodshed

32

Christian Anti-Zionism

33

Is a Jewish Democracy a Contradiction in Terms?

34

A Reply to Sam Harris

35

“You Cease, We Fire”

36

A Glimpse into The Horror in Gaza

37

“You Cannot Pick and Choose Exceptions to Your Bigotry”

38

Being Israeli After the Destruction of Gaza

39

Condemning Settler Violence is Not Enough

40

What We Told Nicholas Kristof

41

Abdul El-Sayed on Being Targeted by AIPAC

42

Did Zionism Go Wrong or Was it Always Wrong?

43

Progressives Must Not Give Tucker Carlson a Pass

44

They Called Zionism “The Most Evil Enemy of the Jewish Proletariat”

45

How Should Democrats Think About Iran and Israel?

46

The Far Right Now Talks About Judaism The Way It Has Long Talked About Islam

47

Where Cenk Uygur and I Disagree

48

How Hasan Piker Sees the World

49

It’s Not Just the Presidential Candidates

50

Mehdi Hasan on Being a Muslim Immigrant in Trump’s America

51

This War is All About the Palestinians

52

"The White House was in a Panic"

53

It’s OK to Want Trump to Lose This War

54

Passover in a Time of Inhumanity and Destruction

55

Why America Never Learns

56

Meanwhile, in Lebanon

57

What Would Heschel Say?

58

“This Is Our Home”

59

Thoughts on the Michigan Synagogue Attack

60

Chris Hayes

61

When Your Country Attacks Your Homeland

62

The Danger This War Poses to American Jews

63

America’s Threat to the World

64

Nader Hashemi on Why the Iranian Regime Won’t Collapse

65

America, Iran and the Lessons of Nuremberg

66

January AMA

67

What If Other Countries Claimed The Right to Bomb the US?

68

"We are not wanted there."

69

The Closing of the Establishment Jewish Mind

70

Upside-Down Love

71

Speaking Across Divides

72

Trump is Not a Patriot

73

Being a Neighbor Amidst Atrocities

74

There’s Nothing Offensive About Invoking the Holocaust to Defend Human Rights

75

One State or Two?

76

Mark Carney vs Pharaoh

77

Holding Liat

78

All That's Left of You

79

A Lesson from Noam Chomsky about Israel and Iran

80

A New Iranian Revolution?

81

American Progressives Must Support the Protests in Iran

82

Pure Power Politics

83

The Jewish Establishment’s Attacks on Mamdani Aren’t Only Illogical

84

“This Was a Failure”

85

Maduro Abducted

86

The Palestine Exception to Free Speech Rarely Ends with Palestine

87

How Ultra-Orthodox Jews View Zionism

88

Don’t Ban “Globalize the Intifada”

89

After the Bondi Chanukah Massacre

90

Thoughts about the Chanukah Massacre in Australia

91

Mahmood Mamdani

92

Lessons from the Satmar Chassidim

93

How to Think About Boycotts

94

Jeremy Ben-Ami Thinks I Made a Mistake

95

The Trump administration’s dangerous obsession with Jews

96

A Short History of the Gaza Strip

97

The Life and Politics of Edward Said

98

A Conversation with Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove

99

When Equality Feels like a Mortal Threat

100

What Zohran Mamdani's Election Tells Us About the Politics of Israel-Palestine

101

What Will Establishment Jewish Leaders Sacrifice to Defeat Mamdani?

102

How Zohran Became Possible

103

“What If We Didn’t Suck?”

104

Mamdani’s Extraordinary Speech About Being Muslim

105

Jewish Leaders Keep Calling Zohran Mamdani an Antisemite

106

There is No Ceasefire

107

"Hopelessness is a Privilege We Don't Have"

108

It Was Never About Hamas

109

Historian Ilan Pappé

110

Thank God the Israeli Hostages Are Coming Home

111

What Now?

112

It’s a Blessing if the Hostages Go Free and the Bombs Stop

113

"Genocide Starts in the Mind"

114

"Go Birds, F--k ICE, and Free Palestine"

115

Days of Judgement

116

The Author of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism Explains Why It’s a Threat to American Freedom

117

The Other Political Violence

118

"A Kingdom of Wickedness"

119

Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie

120

Dr. Abdullah Awwad is Trying to Escape the Carnage

121

Nelson Mandela’s Grandson Is Right

122

Angela Davis

123

Shabbos Kestenbaum

124

No, You Don’t Support the Two State Solution

125

Abducted: Mohsen Mahdawi

126

A Stain on Judaism Itself

127

Why Can Jonathan Greenblatt Lie With Impunity?

128

Abdul El-Sayed on Reaching Across Divides

129

Larry Summers on Israel, Antisemitism, and Harvard

130

Harvard Must Not Surrender

131

Gabor Maté, Liberation from Illusion

132

How Ms. Rachel Was Called to Speak Out

133

The Dam Breaks

134

New York Times Columnist Michelle Goldberg

135

Do Our Rabbis Believe in God?

136

How a Mind is Changed

137

More deaths than Kishinev, Sharpeville or Bloody Sunday. Every Day.

138

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert

139

Why Two Chicago Jews Undertook a Hunger Strike for Gaza

140

Zohran Mamdani Didn’t Lie on His College Application

141

Ahmed Moor and Mairav Zonszein on What's Next in Gaza

142

Now They Tell Us

143

Brad Lander on Cross-Endorsing Zohran Mamdani

144

Why Are National Democrats Attacking Zohran Mamdani?

145

Congressman Ro Khanna on Iran and the War Powers Act

146

Jonathan Chait and I Discuss Zohran Mamdani and "Globalize the Intifida"

147

What Zohran’s Victory Means

148

Trita Parsi on the US Attack on Iran

149

The Media is Asking the Wrong Questions about Trump’s Attack on Iran

150

What Trump’s Racist Fantasies Get Wrong about Post-Apartheid South Africa

151

Why Israel Attacked Iran—and Why It’s a Disaster for Israel and the World

152

How to Oppose Hamas without Excusing Genocide

153

Michael Roth, President of Wesleyan, on Trump’s Assault on Academic Freedom

154

The Gaza Debate is Over

155

Fania Oz-Salzberger and Aziz Abu Sarah Discuss their Differences and Agreements on Israel

156

Desecrating God’s Name

157

On the Preciousness of Life

158

The Moral Abdication of the American Jewish Establishment

159

Khaled Abou El Fadl on Muslim Ethics in an Age of Authoritarianism and Slaughter

160

What I’ve Learned on My Book Tour

161

Omar El Akkad - One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

162

Is the Antisemitism Awareness Act Antisemitic?

163

Joy Reid Pulls Back the Curtain on the News

164

The Gaza Template

165

Jonathan Freedland Has Issues with my Book

166

Oops

167

NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani

168

Against “Even-Handedness”

169

Rev. Munther Isaac on the Christian Response to Gaza

170

Israel Says It’s Only Fighting Hamas

171

Muhammad Shehada on the Gaza Protests

172

Jenner Stands Firm

173

Arab Barghouti on his Imprisoned Father

174

What if Columbia Were Investigated for Anti-Palestinianism?

175

Nadia Abu El-Haj: “Mahmoud is Not Safe”

176

You Are No Longer a Jew

177

James Schamus on the Crisis at Columbia

178

Columbia Professor Joseph Hawley on the Federal Assault on His University

179

Trump’s Attack on Universities Rests on a Lie

180

Jordan Elgrably on Palestinian Steadfastness

181

Susie Linfield on Why She Doesn’t Like My Book

182

Why Trump Treats Zelensky Differently than Netanyahu

183

Rabbis Alissa Wise and Jill Jacobs

184

Khalil Sayegh on Hamas, the Left and the Ceasefire

185

Inhumanity is a Choice

186

Ethan Leib

187

Mahmoud Muna on the Attack on his Bookstore

188

The Next Assault on Gaza Will Be Worse

189

Raef Zreik on Why Israeli Jews are Embracing Mass Ethnic Cleansing

190

The Banality of Evil

191

Debra Dash Moore

192

Daniel Immerwahr on Why American Imperialism isn't Hiding Anymore

193

From Greenland to Gaza

194

Elise Stefanik Is Wrong

195

Rashid Khalidi

196

Idolatry

197

Jamaal Bowman on What He Learned in Congress

198

Muhammad Shehada

199

For a Moment, Joy

200

Jamil Dakwar on Free Speech and Authoritarianism

201

Mairav Zonszein on the Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal

202

Gideon Levy on Being Hated

203

Jake Sullivan’s Mental Prison (A Sequel)

204

Rachel Shabi and the Truth about Antisemitism

205

Mikhael Manekin, Sermons from the Abyss

206

Antony Blinken’s Mental Prison

207

Can We Be Jimmy Carter?

208

American Jewish Fragility

209

Daybreak in Gaza

210

Syria and the Future of the Middle East with Iyad El-Baghdadi

211

Why Israel’s Supporters Get So Mad When Critics Call Gaza a “Genocide”

212

Alia Malek on Syria's Future

213

Syrians Deserve Freedom. So Do Palestinians.

214

Muzaffar Chishti on Mass Deportation

215

American Fear

216

Omer Bartov on Genocide and the ICC

217

Why the International Criminal Court’s Warrant for Netanyahu Matters

218

Adam Serwer on American Cruelty

219

Brutalizing the Stranger

220

Rebecca Traister on Trump’s Victory and the Gender Divide

221

November "Ask Me Anything"

222

Don’t Confuse Popularity with Truth

223

Jason Stanley on American Fascism

224

Two More Reasons to Vote for Kamala Harris

225

Muhammad Shehada on Gaza’s Unending Agony

226

If I Lived In a Swing State, I’d Vote for Harris

227

Efrat Machikawa and Boaz Atzili on the Hostage Families Movement

228

Israel’s Been Assassinating Palestinian Leaders For Decades

229

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Why He Wrote about Palestine and Israel

230

Trita Parsi on Iran, Hezbollah and Israel

231

Two Final Thoughts about Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Book

232

Joshua Leifer on the Future of American Jews

233

Atoning for the Past Year

234

Abdullah Hammoud on the Presidential Campaign in Michigan

235

Rania Batrice and Matt Duss

236

Tactical Success, Strategic Failure

237

Mouin Rabbani on the Danger of a Regional War

238

Laila Al-Arian on “The Night Won’t End”

239

Why is Joe Biden Allowing This?

240

James Zogby

241

What I Wish Kamala Harris Had Said About Immigrants, and Herself

242

Rami Khouri

243

The Biden Administration’s Backdoor Ethnonationalism

244

Raja Khouri and Jeffrey Wilkinson

245

Let Zionists Speak

246

Joe Biden is Not a Hero

247

Hamas Is Not Iran’s “Proxy”

248

If You Can’t Win One War, Start an Even Bigger One

249

You Can’t Claim to Defend Liberal Democracy and Attend Netanyahu’s Speech to Congress

250

This is Why the Two Parties Are Not the Same

251

Calling Trump an Authoritarian Doesn’t Incite Violence

252

Biden’s View of the World is Also Too Old

253

Why Are Democrats Afraid to Fight for Freedom?

254

Jamaal Bowman’s Courage

255

What if Americans Saw Palestinian and Jewish Israeli Lives as Equal?

256

Apocalyptic Thinking and Israel’s Looming War in Lebanon

257

Who is Israeli?

258

The Strangeness of US Policy Toward Israel

259

Why the Biden Administration Didn’t Foresee the Progressive Outrage at its Gaza Policy

260

The Campus Protesters Are Winning— and Why That Means Greater Repression to Come

261

Israel Can’t Win This War—Palestinians Told Us That From the Beginning

262

Six Observations about the Campus Protests

263

The Campus Protests Make Me Uncomfortable. And They Fill Me with Hope.

264

Seeing Hagar, and Seeing Gaza, this Passover

265

How Israel and Iran Came to the Brink of All-Out War

266

Why Biden and Schumer’s Anti-Netanyahu Strategy Won’t Work

267

How to Think about Antisemitism in America

268

Why Chuck Schumer’s Speech Matters

269

Gaza and the Course of History

270

Where is the Biden Administration’s Self-Respect?

271

Even Destroying Hamas Won’t Make Israel Safer

272

Where are Our Jews?

273

Why is the BDS Movement Attacking an Organization Trying to End the War?

274

Biden and Gaza: Is Cruelty the Point?

275

Jewish Scholars vs. Jewish Donors on Antisemitism

276

To Save the Hostages, End the War

277

Challenging Israel’s Legitimacy Also Challenges America’s

278

Who Will Deradicalize Us?

279

Elise Stefanik, University Presidents, and the Politics of Distraction

280

American Words vs. American Deeds