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Peter Beinart

New York

Editor-at-Large at Jewish Currents

Contributor at CNN

Analyst at MSNBC

Editor-at-Large, Jewish Currents. Author, "Beinart Notebook" on Substack. Prof, Newmark School of Journalism, CUNY. MSNBC Analyst. Tweets=my views, not CUNY's

Articles

  • 1 week ago | peterbeinart.substack.com | Peter Beinart

    Andile Zulu is a political writer and researcher at the Alternative Information and Development Center based in Capetown, South Africa. Questions include…What is the current reality around violence in South Africa, and how does it intersect with race and class? Looking back at the fall of apartheid, was there an alternative path the ANC could have taken that would’ve led to a better present?

  • 1 week ago | peterbeinart.substack.com | Peter Beinart

    I’m still on book tour in Britain, so no Zoom call this Friday. We’ll be back to our normal schedule next week. I’ll be speaking in London tonight (June 15). Later this week, I’ll be sharing with paid subscribers a recent conversation I had with Andile Zulu, a political writer at the AIDC based in South Africa. He explains the current reality around violence there and how it differs from Trump’s racist fantasies.

  • 2 weeks ago | peterbeinart.substack.com | Peter Beinart

    I spoke with my friend, political analyst, and president of The Agora Initiative, Khalil Sayegh. Questions included…How are you able to face this unending horror and maintain such gentleness and generosity? What do you think of the “perfect victim” critique? After all this time, what gives you confidence that persuasion is possible, and that changing minds can lead to real-world change? How do you maintain your faith in God in the midst of so much suffering?

  • 2 weeks ago | peterbeinart.substack.com | Peter Beinart

    A conversation about American foreign policy, Palestinian freedom and the Jewish people. A conversation about American foreign policy, Palestinian freedom and the Jewish people.

  • 3 weeks ago | jewishcurrents.org | Peter Beinart

    For more than three decades, American presidents have insisted that what is good for Israel is good for the United States. In Democratic and Republican party platforms since the end of the Cold War, you find the same language again and again: The US and Israel hold “common strategic interests” and maintain “a strategic alliance that benefits both nations.” But in recent months, Trump officials have repeatedly signaled that those interests diverge.

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6 Jun 25

RT @JewishCurrents: Trump’s redefinition of the US imperial role is emboldening officials to distinguish US interests from Israeli ones—and…

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RT @allenanalysis: BREAKING: Condoleezza Rice just went on Fox & Friends and dismantled Trump’s war on universities and scientific research…

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RT @IfNotNowOrg: Our deepest commitment is to shared safety — the belief that our safety is intertwined with the safety and freedom of all…