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Zohran, the Jews, and Reckoning with Gaza (w/ Peter Beinart)
🕑 Added 2025-11-11 11:30:01 +0000 UTCThis episode isn't focused on a single topic or text, but rather just wanting to have a wide-ranging conversation with our guest, Peter Beinart, editor-at-large of Jewish Currents and author of the recent book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning. We start by discussing the appalling wave of Islamophobic attacks against Zohran Mamdani during the last weeks of his victorious mayoral campaign, the short-sighted embrace of such bigotry by too many American Jews and Jewish institutions, the current iterations of anti-semitism roiling the right, religious tradition and progressive politics, changing your mind, and more.
Listen again: "Elon Musk, the Jews, and the ADL" (w/ Mari Cohen, Alex Kane, & Peter Beinart), Sept 26, 2023
Sources:
Zohran Mamdani, "My Message to Muslim New Yorkers—and Everyone Who Calls This City Home," YouTube, Oct 24, 2025
Peter Beinart, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning (2025)
Mark Mazower, On Antisemitism: A Word in History, (2025)
Arwa Mahdawi, "Mamdani's Mayoral Race was Marred by Unhinged Islamophobia. It's Not Going Away Soon," The Guardian, Nov 6, 2025
Romanus Cessario, O.P., "Non Possumus," First Things, Feb 1, 2018
George Washington, "To the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island," August 18, 1790
Comments
Christopher Lawson
I would highly recommend listeners check out the pod case ‘empire’ by goal hanger. They just did a multiple part history of Palestine . In particular episode 299 the hosts interview Caroline Elkins, author of Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire. This history is balanced and insightful. Ms. Elkins discussion of violence in the British empire spanning India to Ireland to Palestine and Africa have important lessons for today.
Sneakin Sally
This how you know beinart a real one, he said he never had any proximity to power. He was like the man at new republic when new republic was the NEW REPUBLIC. What a mensch
