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The Beinart Notebook
Hosted by Peter Beinart · EN
A conversation about American foreign policy, Palestinian freedom and the Jewish people.
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Settler Violence is State Violence
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Norm Finkelstein
2d ago00:13:41Tap to summarizeThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.comOur guest is Norman Finkelstein, the longtime critic of Israel, and critic of the way the memory of the Holocaust—which both his parents survived—has been exploited to justify Israel’s actions. He has written a new book, titled Gaza’s Gravediggers.I talked to Norman about what it’s like—after decades as a political outcast—to see his views becoming mainstream. I asked him about his concern, which I share, that legitimate fury at Israel is fueling conspiracy theories that exonerate the United States. And I asked about his friend and mentor, Noam Chomsky, and what he thinks Chomsky might have said in response to October 7 and the Gaza genocide.
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Rahm Emanuel and I Debate Israeli history
6d ago00:09:31Tap to summarizeThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.comOur guest is Rahm Emanuel, who has served as Chief of Staff for Barack Obama, a member of Congress from Illinois, mayor of Chicago, and US Ambassador to Japan. He recently gave a speech at Tel Aviv University that advocated US pressure on Israel, but also made claims about the history of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations with which I disagree.
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First They Came for Abdul El-Sayed
1w ago00:07:54Tap to summarizeThis 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
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What do Anti-War Conservatives Believe?
1w ago00:10:51Tap to summarizeThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.comOur guest is Curt Mills, executive director of The American Conservative, and the subject of a recent profile in Jewish Currents. Curt is one of most influential thinkers in defining a conservative foreign policy that is skeptical of both war and unconditional support for Israel. We talked about why he supported Donald Trump in 2024, and what he thinks of Trump now, about the role of racism in conservative opposition to immigration, and about what J.D. Vance believes. We disagreed on a lot, but I found the conversation valuable.
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How Abdul El-Sayed Won
2w ago00:09:00Tap to summarizeThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.comOur guest is Andy Levin, former Democratic congressman who represented Michigan’s 9th District until his 2022 loss to Haley Stevens. Stevens in turn appears to have lost to Abdul El-Sayed in yesterday’s Democratic primary for Senate. I invited Andy to analyze the race thus far and the general election to come.
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The American Jewish Establishment Has Given Up on American Democracy
2w ago00:06:33Tap to summarizeThis 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
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Thomas Wright on His Time on Biden’s National Security Council
3w ago00:10:03Tap to summarizeThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.comOur guest is Thomas Wright, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and frequent contributor to the Atlantic who served as senior director for strategic planning at the National Security Council during the Biden administration. Thomas is a smart guy who sees Israel-Palestine, and foreign policy more generally, very differently than I do. I think it was a valuable conversation.
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The Incoherence of Blaming Mamdani for anti-Jewish Violence
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“People’s Feet Need to be Held to the Fire.”
3w ago00:09:18Tap to summarizeThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.comOur guests are Ben Rhodes, former deputy national security advisor to Barack Obama, co-host of Pod Save the World, and author of All We Say: A History of the United States in 15 Speeches, and Yousef Munayyer, head of the Palestine/Israel program at the Arab Center, Washington DC. We discuss the Democratic Party’s rapid transformation on Israel-Palestine.
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