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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is Assal Rad, author of Don’t Say Palestine: How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide. We talked about how American media has covered Israel-Palestine, about recent efforts by Israel’s supporters to gain ownership of key institutions in American media, and about alternative media and how it is shaping the American foreign policy debate. We discuss: How the problem is not limited to Fox News The methods employed by media that support Israel How the internet has changed our access and relationship to information The use and avoidance of terms like “genocide” and “Palestine” Contextualizing Oct 7th

Our guest today is Swedish journalist, Göran Rosenberg. He’s the author of A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz, Israel, a Personal History, and Another Zionism, Another Judaism. This 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

This 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guests today are UC-Berkeley History Professor Ussama Makdisi and UCLA English Professor Saree Makdisi talking about their new book, Anti-Palestinianism. We discuss: How the charge of antisemitism is used to stifle pro-Palestinianism Academic suppression of the pro-Palestinian movement Permission to narrate How can there be reconciliation with a society that largely supported genocide? The potential impact on Palestinians of China’s ascendancy and America’s decline

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guests are two of the most sophisticated and fearless internal critics of Israeli politics and society: Mairav Zonszein, senior analyst for Israel at the International Crisis Group and a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times, and Raef Zreik, a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem. We discuss: Israel’s attempt to ban Palestinian candidates in the upcoming election The absence of a true left in Israel The attempt to bring West Bank apartheid to all of Israel How NAZA finally broke through the Israeli bubble Living post-10/7 as a Palestinian citizen of Israel

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guests today are Meir Javedanfar, lecturer in Iranian Studies at Reichman University in Tel Aviv, and Nader Hashemi, professor of Middle East politics at Georgetown. Though both are from Iran, they offer two very divergent perspectives on Iran’s history and present. I’m grateful they were willing to let me moderate a discussion between them. Topics include: The origins of the Iran-Israel conflict Whether Iran’s international policy is motivated more by politics or religion Why America and Israel have gone to war with Iran now Whether arming Iranian insurgents could have overthrown the regime Whether the Iranian regime is stronger or weaker now than it was before Israel and the US attacked

This 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 The August AMA video is here for Premium members. A sample portion is free for all. Topics include: * The California proposal to make Judaism an ethnicity * The dangers of purity politics * Israel needs enemies * Rahm Emanuel is stuck in his pro-Israel upbringing * Navigating Jewish disagreement

This 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guests are two of the most sophisticated and fearless internal critics of Israeli politics and society: Mairav Zonszein, senior analyst for Israel at the International Crisis Group and a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times, and Raef Zreik, a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem. We discuss: Israel’s attempt to ban Palestinian candidates in the upcoming election The absence of a true left in Israel The attempt to bring West Bank apartheid to all of Israel How NAZA finally broke through the Israeli bubble Living post-10/7 as a Palestinian citizen of Israel

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is Avner Gvaryahu, former executive director of Breaking the Silence, which takes testimony from former Israeli soldiers. He’s currently doing research at Oxford University on the use of AI in war. With all the debate around the new documentary, NAZA, I wanted to talk to Avner about the IDF and military culture and methods. We discuss: How the filmmakers kept its subjects anonymous Why the Israeli military ran out of military targets two days into the assault on Gaza How AI can turn soldiers into rubber stamps How the Israeli right is using NAZA to attack the Israeli center-left How Israeli “liberals” participated in the genocide

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest today is Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller. He was the longtime Hillel Director at UCLA. He’s a fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, and was ordained by Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik at Yeshiva University. He has opposed Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza for close to half a century, first with Breira, and more recently, with A Land for All and Smol Emuni. He has published two essays in the last year: A Zionism for the Future and ‘For the sins we have committed’: Reimagining Yom Kippur liturgy in a post-Oct. 7 world (with David N. Myers) I had him on to discuss Jewish statehood, a topic on which we disagree. But mostly, we discussed the idea of repentance, both individual and collective, and how he answers Jews who believe that Judaism itself has been fundamentally stained by the crimes committed in our people’s name. Topics include: Does Jewish religious observance make Jews behave better or worse? If there’s a non-chauvinistic way for Jews to see ourselves as “chosen” When does Zionism become idolatry?

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