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Peter Beinart
Peter Beinart is Associate Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York, a Contributor to The Atlantic and National Journal, a Senior Columnist at Haaretz and a Senior Fellow at The New America Foundation. He has published three books, including The Crisis of Zionism in 2012.
Opinion Why I Refuse to Call Steve Bannon an anti-Semite
The problem isn't that Bannon hates Jews. It's that he threatens the liberal democratic ideals most of us hold dear.
Opinion American Jewish Establishment Stifles Free Speech to Silence Zionism’s Critics
According to the Senate’s new Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, Henrietta Szold, Hannah Arendt and Martin Buber could also be defined as Jew-haters.
Opinion Trump Era Heralds Final Collapse of American Jewish Center
Crushed between rising extremes, the establishment's wish to stay liberal but support Netanyahu is no longer sustainable.
Opinion Why Steve Bannon Likes Nationalist Israel but Dislikes Internationalist American Jews
Trumpian right discovers what Jews have known for a century: That Zionism is built, in part, on the rejection of Diaspora Jewish identity.
Opinion America’s Most Influential Jewish Groups Have Prioritized Netanyahu Over U.S. Jews’ Safety
Outrage? AIPAC and the Conference of Presidents can summon it on behalf of Israel’s government, on BDS, on the Iran Deal - but not for the American minorities targeted by Trump. Not even its Jews.
Opinion I Still Love America. But, After Trump's Victory, I Don’t Trust It
I’ve never felt less American and more Jewish. I hear my grandmother's voice in my ear: As Jews, we know history doesn't always march forward toward a better day.
Opinion Quandary for American Jews, Caught in Bitter U.S. Class War
We see ourselves as a historically brutalized minority with a distinct story and perspective. But many Americans on the right and left, we're seen as the elite, the establishment, the beneficiaries of white privilege.
Opinion Curt Schilling, Want to Know Why U.S. Jews Vote Democrat? Because They're Secular Liberals
Jake Tapper was right. It’s got nothing to do with Israel. But it doesn’t have much to do with “social welfare” either.
Opinion Liberal Jews Should Condemn Denial of Jewish Ties to Temple Mount
If we denounce Jews who deny Palestinian identity, we must do the same when Palestinians deny ours.
Opinion American Jews Have Failed to Mobilize Against Trump
Prominent American Jewish organizations mobilized with full force against the Iran deal. But Donald Trump’s candidacy doesn’t seem to matter enough to them.
Opinion The Real American Jewish Tragedy
If you’re an American Jewish parent hoping that the annual trip to synagogue on the High Holidays will instill in your kids a connection to Judaism – it doesn’t work like that.
Opinion How Not to Speak About Islam
A lazy and dangerous lecture by the likely next president of Yeshiva University.
Opinion An Open Letter to the U.S. Jewish Leaders Who've Stayed Silent on Trump
Donald Trump is not a distraction. He is the thing our tradition teaches us to resist.
Opinion Trump Would Be Proud of Netanyahu's anti-Palestinian Ethnic Cleansing Canard
Even if you ignore history, the prime minister's suggestion that contemporary Israelis would never dream of expelling Palestinians is painfully false.
Why Doesn't Obama Use Military Aid Package to Israel as Leverage?
U.S. negotiators fight hard for American arms manufacturers - but not for a two-state solution.
Tribalism Fuels Orthodox Jews' Support for Trump
They risk becoming the Jewish version of the 'Alt-Right,' a community that champions its own ethnic interests even when the result is outright bigotry.
The American Jewish Silence on Banning Muslim Burkinis
The Jewish establishment cannot fight anti-Muslim bigotry because elements of that establishment are complicit in it.
Why Jewish Conservatives Fear Donald Trump
Because he represents a brand of nationalism that doesn’t really include them.
How Obama and Netanyahu Inspired the Black Lives Matter-BDS Alliance
Exasperation from continued racism and ongoing occupation created the common ground between Palestinian and African-American activists.
How the American Jewish Establishment Silences U.S. Politicians About Settlements
When U.S. Jewish leaders falsely accused Rep. Hank Johnson of 'anti-Semitism' they proved to American politicians that expressing moral outrage about the occupation can imperil their careers.
Whether He Meant to or Not, on Muslims, Bill Clinton Lapsed Into Trumpism
The entire tone of the Democratic convention’s first two nights suggests a defensiveness about Trump’s anti-Muslim attacks. Barely anyone has defended Barack Obama’s proposal to admit more Syrian refugees.
The Dishonest Democratic Platform on Israel
Saying Israelis and Palestinians can reach peace without outside intervention is like saying George Wallace and MLK could have ended discrimination without federal help.
What I Saw Last Friday in Hebron
Palestinians asked American Jews to join them in a 'Freedom Summer.' The result was extraordinary.
Barack Obama Is Proof That America Isn’t Britain
Donald Trump is a backlash against an extraordinary leap forward in American national identity that has no parallel across the Atlantic.
Time to Form an American Jewish Emergency Committee Against Donald Trump
A mobilization would counter the shameful acquiescence to Trump in some corners of the American Jewish establishment.
What Is 'Radical Islam' Anyway?
How can a term no one can define provide moral clarity?
Hillary Clinton Just Completed the Greatest Political Comeback Since Richard Nixon
Many forget how devastating Clinton's 2008 loss was. No American political figure has absorbed as many blows as Clinton. And none has responded with more tenacity and grit.
Trump and Adelson Were Meant for Each Other
Jewish conservatives who condemn the GOP candidate should condemn his Jewish sidekick too.
Who Cares That Ivanka Trump Is Jewish?
Some of history’s biggest anti-Semites had Jews that they loved.