
About this episode
Peter Beinart joins us to discuss how Jewish faith and practices have been used (and abused!) to justify the war on Gaza.
Peter Beinart is an American journalist, political commentator, and professor at CUNY. He is an editor-at-large for Jewish Currents, and author of Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza (2025). He frequently publishes his foreign policy analysis and political commentary through his personal newsletter, The Beinart Notebook: https://peterbeinart.substack.com/
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