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Jun 4, 2026, 11:42 AM

Why Peter Beinart Doesn’t Care About Israelis

How our conversation revealed a progressive imperialism that puts politics above people When Peter Beinart reached out to interview me about my new book, Being Israeli After the Destruction of Gaza, I was curious what he would ask. I wrote...

Dec 8, 2025, 11:10 PM

Peter Beinart and his Imaginary Homies

Imaginary Homies as a Phenomenon Legendary Swedish music journalist and author Fredrik Strage is a huge hip-hop fan. He went to all the rap and hip-hop concerts he could find in Sweden and quite a few in the States as...

Nov 28, 2025, 9:17 AM

Peter Beinart: The Last Good Jew

Ernesto “Che” Guevara once wrote, in a moment of revolutionary bravado, “Better to die standing than to live on one’s knees.” Twenty-five centuries earlier, a different kind of revolutionary—Mordechai ha-Yehudi, the first Jew in history to be called simply...

Shamai Leibowitz

Oct 30, 2025, 9:47 AM

The Rainbow’s Secret – and Zohran Mamdani’s Opportunity

Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (19th-century Germany) found symbolic meaning in the colors of the rainbow: Each color— remember Mr. "ROY G. BIV" — represents a different kind of being. The outermost ring, red, closest to the heavens, is linked to...

Michael Zoosman

Mar 29, 2025, 12:13 PM

When Human Rights Become ‘Too Political’

On April 24 Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Memorial Day in the Hebrew calendar will compel the Jewish world to consider the full impact of remaining silent in the face of injustice and oppression. Ahead of that solemn day, I feel sickened...

Mar 16, 2025, 10:47 PM

Peter Beinart: Hard to be a Jew

Book Review Peter Beinart. “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning”. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2025. 175 pages. The author is a renowned journalist, political scientist, and professor of journalism at New York University. He headed The New...

Michael Zoosman

Mar 11, 2025, 12:27 AM

Reflections on Being Named a Rabbinic ‘Human Rights Hero’

It is one of the greatest honors of my life that my esteemed colleagues at T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights have seen fit to select me as a recipient of one of their 2025 Rabbinic Human Rights...

Jan 4, 2024, 11:37 AM

To Peter Beinart: A Jewish state is crucial

Peter Beinart is a well-known fierce Jewish critic of Israel. A few years back, he wrote an article about why he went from a liberal Zionist into a believer in a one-state solution. I wrote to him directly to...

Nov 14, 2023, 12:12 PM

What happened to Peter Beinart?

A week after the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust, an open letter published in the New York Review of Books described the massacre rather buoyantly. “On Saturday, after sixteen years of siege, Hamas militants broke out of Gaza,”...

Elchanan Poupko

Dec 4, 2022, 11:19 PM

New York Times: Between Bennett and Beinart

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett looks during a state memorial ceremony for victims of terror, at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, May 4, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

While the politics of Naftali Bennett and Peter Beinart are very different, they met midway this week in the New York Times. Bennett, a self-congratulatory op-ed in the New York Times, takes the credit for the work Yair Lapid...

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