Peter Beinart

Peter Beinart Is Wrong About American Jews

Aitan Goelman | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Support for Israel, Crisis of Zionism, Israel America, Israel, American Jews, Peter Beinart, America Israel, The Crisis of Zionism, World News

Contrary to Peter Beinart's thesis in The Crisis of Zionism, American Jews need not -- and most have not -- checked their liberalism at the door in order to maintain unwavering support for the Jewish State.

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Is Peter Beinart The 'Wicked Son'?

Rabbi Edward Bernstein | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Peter Beinart, Israel, Haggadah, Zionist Left, American Judaism, Zionism, Passover Seder, Liberal Zionism, Judaism, Religion News

Last week, the Jewish community was publicly challenged to consider what views have a role to play in the discussion around our table and what views are beyond the pale.

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Settlement Boycott Will Not Save Two State Solution

Carlo Strenger | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Peter Beinart, Israeli Settlements, Benjamin Netanyahu, Two-State Solution, Israel, The Crisis of Zionism, Obama Israel, Barack Obama, Zionism, Religion News

I have argued against the one state solution time and again; both in the version of the greater Land of Israel propagated by Israel's right, and in the version advocated by many Palestinian intellectuals and activists and some Jewish intellectuals on the far left.

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Zionist BDS -- Kosher for Passover

Robert Naiman | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Daniel Levy, Zionist Bds, Peter Beinart, Americans for Peace Now, Passover, Video, World News

We need a broad, open debate in the American Jewish community on Zionist BDS, because that's a key step to getting the progressive edge of American Jewish opinion to start adopting it.

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Freedom of Speech Except When It Comes to Israel

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Peter Beinart, Peter Beinart the Crisis of Zionism, The Crisis of Zionism, Peter Beinart Israel, Israel-Media, Israel-Palestine, Media News

Beinart is not arguing that the Palestinians are always right. Instead, he proves that Israel isn't either -- and that almost all the information put out by the lobby and the Israeli government is propaganda.

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Will Peter Beinart Debate Me On Israel And School Choice?

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Israel, Peter Beinart, American Judaism, School Vouchers, Judaism, Israel Boycott, Jewish School, Zionism, Religion News

I have two rules about people's positive actions. The first is that they are always more important than their intentions, whatever they may be. The second is the rule articulated by Maimonides nearly 800 years ago: embrace truth regardless of its source.

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False Advertising: The Daily Beast and 'Open Zion'

Dovid Efune | Posted 06.02.2012

Read More: Open Zion, Daily Beast, Zionism, Peter Beinart, Israel, Daily Beast Open Zion, World News

It is no small travesty that the Daily Beast has done a remarkably shoddy job at delivering an even remotely accurate or fair representation of Zionist or Jewish discourse in this country and certainly in Israel.

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A Dangerous Proposal

Einat Wilf | Posted 06.02.2012

Read More: Middle East, West Bank, Settlements, Israel Palestine, Peter Beinart, West Bank Settlements, The Crisis of Zionism, World News

To be a member of the Israeli left who believes that all Jews should have a voice in shaping Israel's future is to repeatedly witness good intentions ...

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Peter Beinart's Offense Against Liberalism

Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Israel, Peter Beinart, Bds Movement, Israel Boycott, World News

The call to boycott Israel -- even the lame effort to distinguish between boycotting Israel within the Green Line and boycotting Israel beyond the Green Line -- is troubling, in and of itself.

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Why Peter Beinart's Book Is Driving the "Pro-Israel" Establishment Crazy

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Peter Beinart, Israel, Occupation, Crisis of Zionism Beinart, Middle East Peace, Israel Palestine, Middle East, Beinart Crisis of Zionism, Zionism, The Crisis of Zionism, World News

The difference between Netanyahu and most Israelis, I believe, is that for them the situation today is nothing like the situation in the 1940s. Israel is not the Warsaw Ghetto, a comparison that insults both the memory of the Holocaust and Israel itself.

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Settlement Boycott Call Likely To Fall Flat

Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: Peter Beinart, Video, Israeli Settlements, Israel-Palestine, Religion News

By Nathan Guttman The Forward Trouble With Beinart's Plan: There's Not Much to Boycott WASHINGTON — By most standards, SodaStream is a great ...

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Peter Beinart Is Right, but for the Wrong Reasons

Abraham H. Foxman | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Palestinian Authority, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Peter Beinart, One-State Solution, West Bank, Gaza, Harvard, Israel, Beinart, Jewish State, World News

The implications of this conundrum -- desire for a Jewish state and a demographic challenge to that concept -- are evident and unpalatable: either the Palestinian residents would be denied equal rights or there would be a process of finding a way to get Palestinians to leave the state.

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Obama on Iran, Yes or No?

Dovid Efune | Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: Russia, Peter Beinart, Egypt, Afghanistan, Mitt Romney, Libya, Nuclear Iran, Iraq, Iaea, Barack Obama, China, Republican, World News

"If we elect Barack Obama, Iran will have nuclear weapons. If you elect Mitt Romney, if you elect me, they will not," said Mr. Romney during Saturday ...

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An Open Letter to Tony Kushner

Dovid Efune | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Peter Beinart, Jeffrey Weisenfeld, Ed Koch, Politics, Tony Kushner, Cuny, Israel, Algemeiner, Tony-Kushner-Honorary-Degree, New York News

It is clear that your objection to Wiesenfeld's comments were his perceived misrepresentations of your political positions. Upon scrutiny, I discovered that your statements are riddled with contradictions.

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Israel: The Ground Shifts

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peter Beinart, Israel, Obama, David Remnick, David Remnick Israel, David Remnick Palestine, Israeli Palestinian Conflict, World News

David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, is arguably the most influential Jewish American journalist. Over the years, he has written about Israel with some regularity -- but it's all changing for two reasons.

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J Street Needs Another Lane

David Suissa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peter Beinart, Rabbi David Saperstein, J-Street, Palestinians, Peaceniks, Irsael, Khaled Abu Toameh, Itamar Marcus, World News

If the goal is to bring together Israel and Palestine, isn't it important to scrutinize both sides? J Street's relentless focus on pressuring Israel isn't only unfair, it's also remarkably ineffective.

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Rethinking Peter Beinart's Israel Article

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jews, Israeli Settlements, The New Yorker, Orthodox Jews, Steve Rosen, New York Review of Books, Wall Street Journal, Aipac, Peter Beinart, 92y, George Packer, Bret Stephens, Roger Cohen, Israel, American Jews, Obama Israel, Politics News

An impressive group of thinkers gathered on Tuesday night at the 92nd St. Y to debate the topic of "Has the American Jewish Establishment Failed Young Jews?"

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A Defeatist Meme Threatens the Democratic Majority in Congress

Michael Carmichael | Posted 05.25.2011

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The defeatist meme has disproportionately expanded for an election that is still six weeks away. But it's never over until it's over, and all this talk is nonsense, even when muttered by the mighty.

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Memo to Daily Beast's Peter Beinart: Sarah Palin is No George McGovern

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

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Over at the Daily Beast, Peter Beinart is usually on the mark, but his latest missive--Palin is the New McGovern--not only misses the boat, but unfair...

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The F Word: McChrystal, Afghanistan Policy, And...

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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To heck with the war. It's becoming a story about egos. Or more precisely, as one commentator put it recently, "By focusing on McChrystal's supposed ...

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The Education of Peter Beinart: Two Cheers

Jerome Slater | Posted 05.25.2011

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Beinart is not an historian or scholar of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and so he has still not fully freed himself from crucial parts of the conventional Israeli-American mythology.

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Beinart's Failure

David Suissa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shmuel Rosner, J Street, Goldstone Report, Peter Beinart, Abe Foxman, Aipac, Zionism, Hamas, Israel, World News

By largely abandoning nuance and context in favor of dramatic impact, Beinart has made a lot of noise and put a big part of the Jewish community on the defensive.

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The Real Helen Thomas Scandal

John McQuaid | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Turkey, Peter Beinart, White House, Gaza Blockade, Gaza, Liz Cheney, Helen Thomas Israel, Israel, Media, Helen Thomas, Media News

Within a few days, the media's "Israel narrative" shifted from Israel behaving badly to Helen Thomas behaving badly, leaping the moral gulf between complex issues and knee-jerk ones.

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Through the Looking Glass: The Myth of Israeli Exceptionalism

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jews, Human Rights, Free Gaza, Flotilla, American Exceptionalism, West Bank, James Baldwin, President Barack Obama, Freedom Flotilla, Gaza Blockade, Palestine, Joe Biden, Looking Glass, Sarah Palin, Palestinians, World News, Zionism, Peter Beinart, J Street, Israeli Exceptionalism, Mavi Marmara, Peace, Middle East, State of Israel, Israel, Emily Henochowicz, Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism, Judaism, Gaza, World News

Exceptionalism is an ideology propagated by the power elites of two nations of vastly different proportions and histories -- Israel and the U.S. -- but each declares a divinely manifest destiny.

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The Comeback of Liberal Zionism

Carlo Strenger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peter Beinart, Jcall, J Street, Liberalism, Theodore Herzl, Zionism, Israel, American Jews, World News

Zionism didn't begin as a unitary ideology. There was Herzl's liberal Zionism; Ahad Ha'am's and Yehuda Magnes' cultural Zionism. Socialist Zionism fir...

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