The Beinart Notebook

10:05

Two Jews Debate Abdul El-Sayed

The Beinart Notebook ·

2026/08/21

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.comOur guest is Rabbi Asher Lopatin, the Director of Community Relations at the Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor and the Rabbi of Kehillat Etz Chaim in Oak Park, Michigan.I’ve known Rabbi Lopatin for a long time. He’s not only a great teacher of Torah, he’s also a mensch. Which makes his willingness to support Mike Rogers over Abdul El-Sayed even more distressing to me. Nonetheless, we had a respectful

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7:32

Settler Violence is State Violence

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2026/08/17

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13:41

Norm Finkelstein

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2026/08/16

This 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

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9:31

Rahm Emanuel and I Debate Israeli history

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2026/08/12

This 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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7:54

First They Came for Abdul El-Sayed

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2026/08/10

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10:51

What do Anti-War Conservatives Believe?

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2026/08/09

This 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

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9:00

How Abdul El-Sayed Won

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2026/08/05

This 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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6:33

The American Jewish Establishment Has Given Up on...

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2026/08/03

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10:03

Thomas Wright on His Time on Biden’s National...

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2026/07/31

This 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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8:11

The Incoherence of Blaming Mamdani for anti-Jewish...

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2026/07/27

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9:18

“People’s Feet Need to be Held to the Fire.”

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2026/07/26

This 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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9:04

The Costs of Being Prematurely Correct

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2026/07/20

This week’s Zoom call will be at our regular time: Friday at 1 PM. Our guests will be Ben Rhodes, former deputy national security advisor to Barack Obama, contributing opinion writer at The New York Times, co-host of Pod Save the World and author, more recently, 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’ll discuss the Democratic Party’s rapid transformation on Israel-Palestine: What

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10:52

“There Are Lots of Members of Our Caucus Who Refuse...

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2026/07/19

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.comOur guest is Chris Van Hollen, Democratic Senator from Maryland. He’s been among the senators most vocal about changing US policy towards Israel. In May, he wrote a New York Times column calling for conditioning US arms sales to the Jewish state and suggested that “Democrats should pursue a last-gasp effort to salvage a two-state solution. If that effort fails, the United States will have to consider other options

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6:56

The Pro-Israel Establishment’s Five Stages of Grief

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2026/07/13

This week’s Zoom call will be at our regular time: Friday at 1 PM. Our guest will be Chris Van Hollen, Democratic Senator from Maryland. He’s been among the senators most vocal about changing US policy toward Israel. In May, he wrote a New York Times column calling for conditioning US arms sales to the Jewish state and suggested that “Democrats should pursue a last-gasp effort to salvage a two-state solution. If that effort fails, the United States will have to consider other options to secure equal

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9:29

Darializa Avila Chevalier on Zionism, October 8, and...

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2026/07/12

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.comOur guest is Darializa Avila Chevalier, who just won the Democratic nomination for Congress in New York’s 13th district. Avila Chevalier has attracted controversy for her views on Israel-Palestine, among other issues. But the interviews with her that I’ve seen haven’t probed those views in depth. I want to better understand her beliefs about October 7, about Zionism, and about what would constitute a just future

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5:39

We Still Haven’t Said “Never Again”

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2026/07/06

This week’s Zoom call will be at our regular time: Friday at 1 PM. Our guest will be Darializa Avila Chevalier, who last month won the Democratic nomination for Congress in New York’s 13th district. Avila Chevalier has attracted controversy for her views on Israel-Palestine, among other issues. But the interviews with her that I’ve seen haven’t probed those views in depth. I want to ask what she saw while living in the West Bank and as an activist at Columbia University’s Gaza encampment. I want to

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10:08

“This Realignment is Happening.”

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2026/07/05

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.comOur guest is Brad Lander, who last week won the Democratic nomination for Congress in New York’s 10th district. Brad’s victory is a milestone: A Jewish politician, running on his support for Palestinian rights, winning in one of the most Jewish districts in the country. Even a few years ago, it would have been unimaginable. We’ll talk about what Brad learned in his campaign, about where he agrees and disagrees

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10:28

A Disagreement Among Old Friends

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2026/07/03

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.comOur guest is Rachel Timoner, Senior Rabbi at Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn. I’ve known her since college. Our political and religious trajectories have taken us in unexpected directions, and left us with different views about Israel-Palestine. I’m grateful she took the time to discuss them with me.Topics include:Is the BDS movement eliminationist?Can a Jewish state be democratic?Is Israel a

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12:33

Reckoning with Anti-Israel Rage

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2026/06/29

This week’s Zoom call will be at our regular time: Friday at 1 PM. Our guest will be Brad Lander, who last week won the Democratic nomination for Congress in New York’s 10th district. Brad’s victory is a milestone: A Jewish congressman, running on his support for Palestinian rights, winning in one of the most Jewish districts in the country. Even a few years ago, it would have been unimaginable. We’ll talk about what Brad learned in his campaign, about where he agrees and disagrees with the other

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11:00

“An Imperial Decline Story”

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2026/06/28

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.comOur guests are Aslı Bâli, professor international law at Yale, and Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute. These two are near the top of the list of people I’d want to advise the next Democratic president. They care deeply about the United States, but see past the exceptionalism that prevents so many in Washington from understanding American foreign policy’s actual impact on the world.In a

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