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Can We Be Jimmy Carter?

Suing the US over Israel

American Jewish Fragility

Daybreak in Gaza

Daybreak in Gaza

December Ask Me Anything

December “Ask Me Anything”

Syria and the Future of the Middle East with Iyad El-Baghdadi

Why Israel’s Supporters Get So Mad When Critics Call Gaza a “Genocide”

Alia Malek on Syria's Future

Syrians Deserve Freedom. So Do Palestinians.

Muzaffar Chishti on Mass Deportation

American Fear

Omer Bartov on Genocide and the ICC

Why the International Criminal Court’s Warrant for Netanyahu Matters

Adam Serwer on American Cruelty

Brutalizing the Stranger

Rebecca Traister on Trump’s Victory and the Gender Divide

November "Ask Me Anything"

October AMA

Don’t Confuse Popularity with Truth

Jason Stanley on American Fascism

Two More Reasons to Vote for Kamala Harris

Ruwa Romman and Rania Batrice

The Woman Who Couldn’t Speak at the Democratic Convention Speaks about The Election

Rania Batrice on the Election

Muhammad Shehada on Gaza’s Unending Agony

Muhammad Shehada on Gaza’s Unending Agony

If I Lived In a Swing State, I’d Vote for Harris

Israel’s Been Assassinating Palestinian Leaders For Decades

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Why He Wrote about Palestine and Israel

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Why He Wrote about Palestine and Israel

Two Final Thoughts about Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Book

James Zogby on Regional War

Ta-Nehisi Coates's Courage

James Zogby on Regional War

Atoning for the Past Year

Rami Khouri on Israel’s war in Lebanon

Rami Khouri on Israel’s war in Lebanon

Tactical Success, Strategic Failure

State Representative Ruwa Romman on Kamala Harris and the Presidential Campaign

State Representative Ruwa Romman on Kamala Harris and the Presidential Campaign

Why is Joe Biden Allowing This?

Dr. Simon Fitzgerald on the Fate of Dr. Khaled Alser

Our Next “Ask Me Anything”

Being Jewish After the Destruction in Gaza

Responding To What-Aboutism

Dr. Simon Fitzgerald on the Fate of Dr. Khaled Alser

What I Wish Kamala Harris Had Said About Immigrants, and Herself

Efrat Machikawa and Boaz Atzili on the Hostage Families Movement

Ask Me Anything #1 - August, 2024

Efrat Machikawa and Boaz Atzili on the Hostage Families Movement

The Biden Administration’s Backdoor Ethnonationalism

Trita Parsi on Iran, Hezbollah and Israel

Trita Parsi on Iran, Hezbollah and Israel

To Save the Remaining Hostages, End the War Now

Joshua Leifer on the Future of American Jews

Joshua Leifer on the Future of American Jews

Our First “Ask Me Anything”

Let Zionists Speak

Why Snubbing Palestinians at the DNC is So Dangerous

Abdullah Hammoud on the Presidential Campaign in Michigan

Abdullah Hammoud on the Presidential Campaign in Michigan

Joe Biden is Not a Hero

Mouin Rabbani on the Danger of a Regional War

Mouin Rabbani on the Danger of a Regional War

Hamas Is Not Iran’s “Proxy”

Rania Batrice and Matt Duss on Kamala Harris

How Tim Walz Redefines “Normal”

If You Can’t Win One War, Start an Even Bigger One

Rania Batrice and Matt Duss

Laila Al-Arian on “The Night Won’t End”

Laila al-Arian on "The Night Won't End"

You Can’t Claim to Defend Liberal Democracy and Attend Netanyahu’s Speech to Congress

This is Why the Two Parties Are Not the Same

James Zogby

James Zogby on If and How the Democrats Will Replace Joe Biden

Calling Trump an Authoritarian Doesn’t Incite Violence

Rami Khouri

Rami Khouri on a Potential War Between Israel and Hezbollah

Biden’s View of the World is Also Too Old

Raja Khouri and Jeffrey Wilkinson

Raja Khouri and Jeffrey Wilkinson on What Jews and Palestinians Don’t Know About Each Other

Why Are Democrats Afraid to Fight for Freedom?

Geoffrey Levin Interview - audio

Jamaal Bowman’s Courage

Geoffrey Levin on the Forgotten History of American Jewish Dissent over Israel

What if Americans Saw Palestinian and Jewish Israeli Lives as Equal?

Raef Zreik - AUDIO

Congressman Ro Khanna - AUDIO

Raef Zreik on Palestinians and Israeli Jews in the Shadow of Gaza’s Destruction

Apocalyptic Thinking and Israel’s Looming War in Lebanon

Ro Khanna

Who is Israeli?

Jamil Dakwar on the International Court Cases against Israel

The Strangeness of US Policy Toward Israel

Invite your friends to read The Beinart Notebook

Lily Greenberg Call on Why She Resigned from the Biden Administration

Why the Biden Administration Didn’t Foresee the Progressive Outrage at its Gaza Policy

Tel Aviv University Professor Yael Sternhell on Repression and Debate in Israel

The Campus Protesters Are Winning— and Why That Means Greater Repression to Come

Rashid Khalidi and David Myers on Campus Protest and Repression

Israel Can’t Win This War—Palestinians Told Us That From the Beginning

Columbia University Students Ilan Cohen and Gabi Frants on the Protests at Their Campus

Six Observations about the Campus Protests

Dr. Musallam Abu Khalil on Life and Death in Gaza

The Campus Protests Make Me Uncomfortable. And They Fill Me with Hope.

Dr. Musallam Abu Khalil on Life and Death in Gaza

Seeing Hagar, and Seeing Gaza, this Passover

Vali Nasr on Averting an Israel-Iran War

How Israel and Iran Came to the Brink of All-Out War

There Will Be No Zoom Call This Week

There will be no call Zoom call this Friday

Abdalhadi Alijla on Gaza’s Future

Why Biden and Schumer’s Anti-Netanyahu Strategy Won’t Work

Avner Gvaryahu

How to Think about Antisemitism in America

Avner Gvaryahu on the Myth of Israel’s “Moral Army.”

Why Chuck Schumer’s Speech Matters

Norman Finkelstein on the Lessons of the Holocaust

Gaza and the Course of History

Ussama Makdisi on a Vision of Equality and Coexistence in Palestine and Israel

Where is the Biden Administration’s Self-Respect?

Dr. Lina Qassem-Hassan and Guy Shalev on the Public Health Catastrophe in Gaza

Even Destroying Hamas Won’t Make Israel Safer

There will be no call Zoom call this Friday

James Zogby and State Representative Abdelnasser Rashid on Arab Americans and Biden

Where are Our Jews?

Rabbi David Wolpe on antisemitism, anti-Zionism, and Harvard

Why is the BDS Movement Attacking an Organization Trying to End the War?

Fadi Quran on Watching the World Watch Gaza’s Destruction

Biden and Gaza: Is Cruelty the Point?

Rashid Khalidi on this Moment in the History of Palestine and Israel

Karen Attiah and Terrell Star on the Evolving Black Discourse on Israel-Palestine

Jewish Scholars vs. Jewish Donors on Antisemitism

Rashid Khalidi on This Moment in Palestinian History

To Save the Hostages, End the War

Omer Bartov on Israel, Gaza and the Charge of Genocide

Challenging Israel’s Legitimacy Also Challenges America’s

Mikhael Manekin on What the Gaza War Means for Judaism

Who Will Deradicalize Us?