The Beinart Notebook

Zionism and Anti-Zionism in Europe Swedish journalist Göran Rosenberg on his personal and ideological journey 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.

Playback speed × Share post Share post at current time Share from 0:00 0:00 / Abdul El-Sayed is Forcing Pro-Israel Jews to Face their Hypocrisy They deny the same principles in Israel that they support in the US Our Zoom call this week will be at our regular time: Friday at 1 PM. Our guest will be Assal Rad, author of Don’t Say Palestine: How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide. We’ll talk about how American media has covered the destruction of Gaza, and Israel-Palestine more generally.

Anti-Palestinianism Professors Ussama and Saree Makdisi on their new book Our guests today are UC-Berkeley History Professor Ussama Makdisi and UCLA English Professor Saree Makdisi talking about their new book, Anti-Palestinianism.

Playback speed × Share post Share post at current time Share from 0:00 0:00 / Democrats, Follow Britain After imposing sanctions on settlements, the UK is now pledging to accept refugees from Gaza There will be no live Zoom call this Friday. Instead, we will release a conversation I’m recording with UC-Berkeley History Professor Ussama Makdisi and UCLA English Professor Saree Makdisi about their new book, Anti-Palestinianism.

Two Sons of Iran Debate Its Regime Meir Javedanfar and Nader Hashemi on How to Understand the Islamic Republic 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.

Our Zoom call this Friday will be at the usual time, Friday, 1pm ET. Our first guest will be Carolyn Karcher, editor of the new book, Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism: A Moral Imperative After the Gaza Genocide. We’ll also be joined by Eliana Fishman, who authored one of the essays in the book. Eliana is the founder of the Facebook group “A Group for Zionists to Ask Questions and for Jewish non- and anti-Zionists to respond” and, with her partner, The Pro-Palestinian Talmud. Please join us. Share

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Our Zoom call this week will be at our regular time: Friday at 1 PM. Our first guest will be Carolyn Karcher, editor of the new book, Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism: A Moral Imperative After the Gaza Genocide, which consists of personal essays about individual political, moral and spiritual transformations on the question of Israel-Palestine. We’ll also be joined by Eliana Fishman, who authored one of the essays in the book.

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.

Our Zoom call this Friday will be at the usual time, Friday, 1pm ET. We’ll discuss the Israeli government’s extraordinary response to the film NAZA and the general atmosphere of violence and terror in the run-up to Israel’s elections next month. Our guests will be 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.