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The Beinart Notebook — 280 episodes
Repenting Through Listening
9/11, Twenty-Five Years On
Inside Biden’s Gaza Policy
Explanation Is Not Justification
Chris Rabb on Trying to be Progressive in a Democratic Party that Isn’t
Rabbi Yaacov Behrman and I Discuss Judaism, Zionism and Chabad
The Heckling of Brad Lander
The Rise of Islamophobia in America
The Full Cost of AIPAC’s Influence
Two Jews Debate Abdul El-Sayed
Settler Violence is State Violence
Norm Finkelstein
Rahm Emanuel and I Debate Israeli history
First They Came for Abdul El-Sayed
What do Anti-War Conservatives Believe?
How Abdul El-Sayed Won
The American Jewish Establishment Has Given Up on American Democracy
Thomas Wright on His Time on Biden’s National Security Council
The Incoherence of Blaming Mamdani for anti-Jewish Violence
“People’s Feet Need to be Held to the Fire.”
The Costs of Being Prematurely Correct
“There Are Lots of Members of Our Caucus Who Refuse to Recognize the Truth.”
The Pro-Israel Establishment’s Five Stages of Grief
Darializa Avila Chevalier on Zionism, October 8, and Her Experience in the West Bank
We Still Haven’t Said “Never Again”
“This Realignment is Happening.”
A Disagreement Among Old Friends
Reckoning with Anti-Israel Rage
“An Imperial Decline Story”
May “Ask Me Anything”
Israel’s Defenders Say Legal Equality Would Bring Repression and Bloodshed
Christian Anti-Zionism
Is a Jewish Democracy a Contradiction in Terms?
A Reply to Sam Harris
“You Cease, We Fire”
A Glimpse into The Horror in Gaza
“You Cannot Pick and Choose Exceptions to Your Bigotry”
Being Israeli After the Destruction of Gaza
Condemning Settler Violence is Not Enough
What We Told Nicholas Kristof
Abdul El-Sayed on Being Targeted by AIPAC
Did Zionism Go Wrong or Was it Always Wrong?
Progressives Must Not Give Tucker Carlson a Pass
They Called Zionism “The Most Evil Enemy of the Jewish Proletariat”
How Should Democrats Think About Iran and Israel?
The Far Right Now Talks About Judaism The Way It Has Long Talked About Islam
Where Cenk Uygur and I Disagree
How Hasan Piker Sees the World
It’s Not Just the Presidential Candidates
Mehdi Hasan on Being a Muslim Immigrant in Trump’s America
This War is All About the Palestinians
"The White House was in a Panic"
It’s OK to Want Trump to Lose This War
Passover in a Time of Inhumanity and Destruction
Why America Never Learns
Meanwhile, in Lebanon
What Would Heschel Say?
“This Is Our Home”
Thoughts on the Michigan Synagogue Attack
Chris Hayes
When Your Country Attacks Your Homeland
The Danger This War Poses to American Jews
America’s Threat to the World
Nader Hashemi on Why the Iranian Regime Won’t Collapse
America, Iran and the Lessons of Nuremberg
January AMA
What If Other Countries Claimed The Right to Bomb the US?
"We are not wanted there."
The Closing of the Establishment Jewish Mind
Upside-Down Love
Speaking Across Divides
Trump is Not a Patriot
Being a Neighbor Amidst Atrocities
There’s Nothing Offensive About Invoking the Holocaust to Defend Human Rights
One State or Two?
Mark Carney vs Pharaoh
Holding Liat
All That's Left of You
A Lesson from Noam Chomsky about Israel and Iran
A New Iranian Revolution?
American Progressives Must Support the Protests in Iran
Pure Power Politics
The Jewish Establishment’s Attacks on Mamdani Aren’t Only Illogical
“This Was a Failure”
Maduro Abducted
The Palestine Exception to Free Speech Rarely Ends with Palestine
How Ultra-Orthodox Jews View Zionism
Don’t Ban “Globalize the Intifada”
After the Bondi Chanukah Massacre
Thoughts about the Chanukah Massacre in Australia
Mahmood Mamdani
Lessons from the Satmar Chassidim
How to Think About Boycotts
Jeremy Ben-Ami Thinks I Made a Mistake
The Trump administration’s dangerous obsession with Jews
A Short History of the Gaza Strip
The Life and Politics of Edward Said
A Conversation with Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove
When Equality Feels like a Mortal Threat
What Zohran Mamdani's Election Tells Us About the Politics of Israel-Palestine
What Will Establishment Jewish Leaders Sacrifice to Defeat Mamdani?
How Zohran Became Possible
“What If We Didn’t Suck?”
Mamdani’s Extraordinary Speech About Being Muslim
Jewish Leaders Keep Calling Zohran Mamdani an Antisemite
There is No Ceasefire
"Hopelessness is a Privilege We Don't Have"
It Was Never About Hamas
Historian Ilan Pappé
Thank God the Israeli Hostages Are Coming Home
What Now?
It’s a Blessing if the Hostages Go Free and the Bombs Stop
"Genocide Starts in the Mind"
"Go Birds, F--k ICE, and Free Palestine"
Days of Judgement
The Author of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism Explains Why It’s a Threat to American Freedom
The Other Political Violence
"A Kingdom of Wickedness"
Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie
Dr. Abdullah Awwad is Trying to Escape the Carnage
Nelson Mandela’s Grandson Is Right
Angela Davis
Shabbos Kestenbaum
No, You Don’t Support the Two State Solution
Abducted: Mohsen Mahdawi
A Stain on Judaism Itself
Why Can Jonathan Greenblatt Lie With Impunity?
Abdul El-Sayed on Reaching Across Divides
Larry Summers on Israel, Antisemitism, and Harvard
Harvard Must Not Surrender
Gabor Maté, Liberation from Illusion
How Ms. Rachel Was Called to Speak Out
The Dam Breaks
New York Times Columnist Michelle Goldberg
Do Our Rabbis Believe in God?
How a Mind is Changed
More deaths than Kishinev, Sharpeville or Bloody Sunday. Every Day.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
Why Two Chicago Jews Undertook a Hunger Strike for Gaza
Zohran Mamdani Didn’t Lie on His College Application
Ahmed Moor and Mairav Zonszein on What's Next in Gaza
Now They Tell Us
Brad Lander on Cross-Endorsing Zohran Mamdani
Why Are National Democrats Attacking Zohran Mamdani?
Congressman Ro Khanna on Iran and the War Powers Act
Jonathan Chait and I Discuss Zohran Mamdani and "Globalize the Intifida"
What Zohran’s Victory Means
Trita Parsi on the US Attack on Iran
The Media is Asking the Wrong Questions about Trump’s Attack on Iran
What Trump’s Racist Fantasies Get Wrong about Post-Apartheid South Africa
Why Israel Attacked Iran—and Why It’s a Disaster for Israel and the World
How to Oppose Hamas without Excusing Genocide
Michael Roth, President of Wesleyan, on Trump’s Assault on Academic Freedom
The Gaza Debate is Over
Fania Oz-Salzberger and Aziz Abu Sarah Discuss their Differences and Agreements on Israel
Desecrating God’s Name
On the Preciousness of Life
The Moral Abdication of the American Jewish Establishment
Khaled Abou El Fadl on Muslim Ethics in an Age of Authoritarianism and Slaughter
What I’ve Learned on My Book Tour
Omar El Akkad - One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Is the Antisemitism Awareness Act Antisemitic?
Joy Reid Pulls Back the Curtain on the News
The Gaza Template
Jonathan Freedland Has Issues with my Book
Oops
NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani
Against “Even-Handedness”
Rev. Munther Isaac on the Christian Response to Gaza
Israel Says It’s Only Fighting Hamas
Muhammad Shehada on the Gaza Protests
Jenner Stands Firm
Arab Barghouti on his Imprisoned Father
What if Columbia Were Investigated for Anti-Palestinianism?
Nadia Abu El-Haj: “Mahmoud is Not Safe”
You Are No Longer a Jew
James Schamus on the Crisis at Columbia
Columbia Professor Joseph Hawley on the Federal Assault on His University
Trump’s Attack on Universities Rests on a Lie
Jordan Elgrably on Palestinian Steadfastness
Susie Linfield on Why She Doesn’t Like My Book
Why Trump Treats Zelensky Differently than Netanyahu
Rabbis Alissa Wise and Jill Jacobs
Khalil Sayegh on Hamas, the Left and the Ceasefire
Inhumanity is a Choice
Ethan Leib
Mahmoud Muna on the Attack on his Bookstore
The Next Assault on Gaza Will Be Worse
Raef Zreik on Why Israeli Jews are Embracing Mass Ethnic Cleansing
The Banality of Evil
Debra Dash Moore
Daniel Immerwahr on Why American Imperialism isn't Hiding Anymore
From Greenland to Gaza
Elise Stefanik Is Wrong
Rashid Khalidi
Idolatry
Jamaal Bowman on What He Learned in Congress
Muhammad Shehada
For a Moment, Joy
Jamil Dakwar on Free Speech and Authoritarianism
Mairav Zonszein on the Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal
Gideon Levy on Being Hated
Jake Sullivan’s Mental Prison (A Sequel)
Rachel Shabi and the Truth about Antisemitism
Mikhael Manekin, Sermons from the Abyss
Antony Blinken’s Mental Prison
Can We Be Jimmy Carter?
American Jewish Fragility
Daybreak in Gaza
Syria and the Future of the Middle East with Iyad El-Baghdadi
Why Israel’s Supporters Get So Mad When Critics Call Gaza a “Genocide”
Alia Malek on Syria's Future
Syrians Deserve Freedom. So Do Palestinians.
Muzaffar Chishti on Mass Deportation
American Fear
Omer Bartov on Genocide and the ICC
Why the International Criminal Court’s Warrant for Netanyahu Matters
Adam Serwer on American Cruelty
Brutalizing the Stranger
Rebecca Traister on Trump’s Victory and the Gender Divide
November "Ask Me Anything"
Don’t Confuse Popularity with Truth
Jason Stanley on American Fascism
Two More Reasons to Vote for Kamala Harris
Muhammad Shehada on Gaza’s Unending Agony
If I Lived In a Swing State, I’d Vote for Harris
Efrat Machikawa and Boaz Atzili on the Hostage Families Movement
Israel’s Been Assassinating Palestinian Leaders For Decades
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Why He Wrote about Palestine and Israel
Trita Parsi on Iran, Hezbollah and Israel
Two Final Thoughts about Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Book
Joshua Leifer on the Future of American Jews
Atoning for the Past Year
Abdullah Hammoud on the Presidential Campaign in Michigan
Rania Batrice and Matt Duss
Tactical Success, Strategic Failure
Mouin Rabbani on the Danger of a Regional War
Laila Al-Arian on “The Night Won’t End”
Why is Joe Biden Allowing This?
James Zogby
What I Wish Kamala Harris Had Said About Immigrants, and Herself
Rami Khouri
The Biden Administration’s Backdoor Ethnonationalism
Raja Khouri and Jeffrey Wilkinson
Let Zionists Speak
Joe Biden is Not a Hero
Hamas Is Not Iran’s “Proxy”
If You Can’t Win One War, Start an Even Bigger One
You Can’t Claim to Defend Liberal Democracy and Attend Netanyahu’s Speech to Congress
This is Why the Two Parties Are Not the Same
Calling Trump an Authoritarian Doesn’t Incite Violence
Biden’s View of the World is Also Too Old
Why Are Democrats Afraid to Fight for Freedom?
Jamaal Bowman’s Courage
What if Americans Saw Palestinian and Jewish Israeli Lives as Equal?
Apocalyptic Thinking and Israel’s Looming War in Lebanon
Who is Israeli?
The Strangeness of US Policy Toward Israel
Why the Biden Administration Didn’t Foresee the Progressive Outrage at its Gaza Policy
The Campus Protesters Are Winning— and Why That Means Greater Repression to Come
Israel Can’t Win This War—Palestinians Told Us That From the Beginning
Six Observations about the Campus Protests
The Campus Protests Make Me Uncomfortable. And They Fill Me with Hope.
Seeing Hagar, and Seeing Gaza, this Passover
How Israel and Iran Came to the Brink of All-Out War
Why Biden and Schumer’s Anti-Netanyahu Strategy Won’t Work
How to Think about Antisemitism in America
Why Chuck Schumer’s Speech Matters
Gaza and the Course of History
Where is the Biden Administration’s Self-Respect?
Even Destroying Hamas Won’t Make Israel Safer
Where are Our Jews?
Why is the BDS Movement Attacking an Organization Trying to End the War?
Biden and Gaza: Is Cruelty the Point?
Jewish Scholars vs. Jewish Donors on Antisemitism
To Save the Hostages, End the War
Challenging Israel’s Legitimacy Also Challenges America’s
Who Will Deradicalize Us?
Elise Stefanik, University Presidents, and the Politics of Distraction
American Words vs. American Deeds