Peter Beinart

New York

Contributor at CNN

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

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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

6 days ago | peterbeinart.substack.com | Peter Beinart

This week’s Zoom call, for paid subscribers, will be tomorrow at our regular time: Friday, May 9, at 1 PM Eastern. Our guest will be the novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad, author of the new book about Israel’s destruction of Gaza, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. He’ll talk about what it’s like to live as an Arab-American in a moment in which the US—and the West more generally— are destroying any pretense of believing in the moral principles they claim to hold dear.
Is the Antisemitism Awareness Act Antisemitic?

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

I’ll be on book tour for Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza for a few more weeks. You’ll find a list of book-related events below. I’m happy people are reading my book. But I know that many talented Palestinian authors don’t get the same attention. So, I hope people who buy my book also buy one by a Palestinian author. For instance, Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestine Lives and Culture, edited by Mahmoud Muna and Matthew Teller with Juliette Touma and Jayyab Abusafia.
Joy Reid Pulls Back the Curtain on the News

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

Our guest is Joy Reid, former MSNBC host and author of the Joy’s House Substack. We talk about how the mainstream media covers Israel-Palestine, and how it covers America. Listen to this episode with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to The Beinart Notebook to listen to this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. A conversation about American foreign policy, Palestinian freedom and the Jewish people.
Joy Reid on What’s Wrong with Mainstream Media

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

This week’s Zoom call, for paid subscribers, will be tomorrow at our regular time: Friday, May 2, at 1 PM Eastern. Our guest will be Joy Reid, former MSNBC host and author of the Joy’s House Substack. We’ll talk about how the mainstream media covers Israel-Palestine, and how it covers America. Zoom link is below for paid subscribers. Once it airs, they’ll get the video and podcast.
Opinion: Trump doesn't want to protect all Jewish students

2 weeks ago | sltrib.com | Peter Beinart

On April 29, 2024, Tess Segal, a 20-year-old sophomore at the University of Florida, joined her fellow activists at a prominent plaza on campus calling on the university to divest from weapons manufacturers and boycott academic institutions in Israel. Some protesters studied or played cards. Later they read obituaries of Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip. Then law enforcement moved in.
The Gaza Template

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

I’ll be on book tour for Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza for the next couple of months. You’ll find a list of book-related events below. I’m happy people are reading my book. But I know that many talented Palestinian authors don’t get the same attention. So, I hope people who buy my book also buy one by a Palestinian author. For instance, Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestine Lives and Culture, edited by Mahmoud Muna and Matthew Teller with Juliette Touma and Jayyab Abusafia.
The Jewish Students Caught Up in Trump's Antisemitism Crackdown

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Peter Beinart

On April 29, 2024, Tess Segal, a 20-year-old sophomore at the University of Florida, joined her fellow activists at a prominent plaza on campus calling on the university to divest from weapons manufacturers and boycott academic institutions in Israel. Some protesters studied or played cards. Later they read obituaries of Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip. Then law enforcement moved in.
Jonathan Freedland Has Issues with my Book

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

Our guest is Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland. I’ve known and liked Jonathan for years, and we agree on many things. But he also has criticisms of my book. He thinks that in my rejection of the very idea of a Jewish state, I’ve gone too far. We talk about that, and about the way being a British—as opposed to an American—Jew shapes his perspective.
Jonathan Freedland Disagrees with Me

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

This week’s Zoom call, for paid subscribers, will be tomorrow at our regular time: Friday, April 25, at 1 PM Eastern. Our guest will be Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland. I’ve known and liked Jonathan for years, and we agree on many things. But he also has criticisms of my book. Although I don’t know if he’d put it this way, I suspect he thinks that in my rejection of the very idea of a Jewish state, I’ve gone too far.
Oops

3 weeks ago | peterbeinart.substack.com | Peter Beinart

I’ll be on book tour for Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza for the next couple of months. You’ll find a list of book-related events below. I’m happy people are reading my book. But I know that many talented Palestinian authors don’t get the same attention. So, I hope people who buy my book also buy one by a Palestinian author. For instance, Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestine Lives and Culture, edited by Mahmoud Muna and Matthew Teller with Juliette Touma and Jayyab Abusafia.