The Beinart Notebook
By Peter Beinart
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Lessons from the Satmar Chassidim
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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How to Think About Boycotts
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Jeremy Ben-Ami Thinks I Made a Mistake
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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The Trump administration’s dangerous obsession with Jews
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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A Short History of the Gaza Strip
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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The Life and Politics of Edward Said
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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A Conversation with Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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When Equality Feels like a Mortal Threat
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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What Zohran Mamdani's Election Tells Us About the Politics of Israel-Palestine
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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What Will Establishment Jewish Leaders Sacrifice to Defeat Mamdani?
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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How Zohran Became Possible
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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“What If We Didn’t Suck?”
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Mamdani’s Extraordinary Speech About Being Muslim
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Jewish Leaders Keep Calling Zohran Mamdani an Antisemite
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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There is No Ceasefire
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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"Hopelessness is a Privilege We Don't Have"
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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It Was Never About Hamas
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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Historian Ilan Pappé
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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Thank God the Israeli Hostages Are Coming Home
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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What Now?
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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It’s a Blessing if the Hostages Go Free and the Bombs Stop
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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"Genocide Starts in the Mind"
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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"Go Birds, F--k ICE, and Free Palestine"
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Days of Judgement
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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The Author of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism Explains Why It’s a Threat to American Freedom
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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The Other Political Violence
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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"A Kingdom of Wickedness"
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Dr. Abdullah Awwad is Trying to Escape the Carnage
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Nelson Mandela’s Grandson Is Right
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Angela Davis
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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Shabbos Kestenbaum
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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No, You Don’t Support the Two State Solution
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Abducted: Mohsen Mahdawi
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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A Stain on Judaism Itself
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Why Can Jonathan Greenblatt Lie With Impunity?
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Abdul El-Sayed on Reaching Across Divides
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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Larry Summers on Israel, Antisemitism, and Harvard
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Harvard Must Not Surrender
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Gabor Maté, Liberation from Illusion
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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How Ms. Rachel Was Called to Speak Out
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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The Dam Breaks
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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New York Times Columnist Michelle Goldberg
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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Do Our Rabbis Believe in God?
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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How a Mind is Changed
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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More deaths than Kishinev, Sharpeville or Bloody Sunday. Every Day.
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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Why Two Chicago Jews Undertook a Hunger Strike for Gaza
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Zohran Mamdani Didn’t Lie on His College Application
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Ahmed Moor and Mairav Zonszein on What's Next in Gaza
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Jul 13, 2025 |
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Now They Tell Us
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Brad Lander on Cross-Endorsing Zohran Mamdani
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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Why Are National Democrats Attacking Zohran Mamdani?
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Congressman Ro Khanna on Iran and the War Powers Act
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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Jonathan Chait and I Discuss Zohran Mamdani and "Globalize the Intifida"
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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What Zohran’s Victory Means
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Trita Parsi on the US Attack on Iran
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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The Media is Asking the Wrong Questions about Trump’s Attack on Iran
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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What Trump’s Racist Fantasies Get Wrong about Post-Apartheid South Africa
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Why Israel Attacked Iran—and Why It’s a Disaster for Israel and the World
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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How to Oppose Hamas without Excusing Genocide
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Michael Roth, President of Wesleyan, on Trump’s Assault on Academic Freedom
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Jun 08, 2025 |
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The Gaza Debate is Over
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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Fania Oz-Salzberger and Aziz Abu Sarah Discuss their Differences and Agreements on Israel
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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Desecrating God’s Name
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May 26, 2025 |
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On the Preciousness of Life
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May 22, 2025 |
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The Moral Abdication of the American Jewish Establishment
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May 20, 2025 |
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Khaled Abou El Fadl on Muslim Ethics in an Age of Authoritarianism and Slaughter
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May 18, 2025 |
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What I’ve Learned on My Book Tour
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May 12, 2025 |
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Omar El Akkad - One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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May 11, 2025 |
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Is the Antisemitism Awareness Act Antisemitic?
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May 05, 2025 |
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Joy Reid Pulls Back the Curtain on the News
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May 04, 2025 |
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The Gaza Template
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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Jonathan Freedland Has Issues with my Book
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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Oops
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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Against “Even-Handedness”
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Rev. Munther Isaac on the Christian Response to Gaza
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Israel Says It’s Only Fighting Hamas
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Muhammad Shehada on the Gaza Protests
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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Jenner Stands Firm
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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Arab Barghouti on his Imprisoned Father
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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What if Columbia Were Investigated for Anti-Palestinianism?
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Nadia Abu El-Haj: “Mahmoud is Not Safe”
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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You Are No Longer a Jew
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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James Schamus on the Crisis at Columbia
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Columbia Professor Joseph Hawley on the Federal Assault on His University
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Trump’s Attack on Universities Rests on a Lie
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Jordan Elgrably on Palestinian Steadfastness
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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Susie Linfield on Why She Doesn’t Like My Book
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Why Trump Treats Zelensky Differently than Netanyahu
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Rabbis Alissa Wise and Jill Jacobs
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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Khalil Sayegh on Hamas, the Left and the Ceasefire
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Inhumanity is a Choice
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Ethan Leib
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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Mahmoud Muna on the Attack on his Bookstore
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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The Next Assault on Gaza Will Be Worse
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Raef Zreik on Why Israeli Jews are Embracing Mass Ethnic Cleansing
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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The Banality of Evil
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Debra Dash Moore
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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Daniel Immerwahr on Why American Imperialism isn't Hiding Anymore
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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From Greenland to Gaza
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Elise Stefanik Is Wrong
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Rashid Khalidi
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Feb 02, 2025 |
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Idolatry
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Jamaal Bowman on What He Learned in Congress
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Jan 26, 2025 |
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Muhammad Shehada
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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For a Moment, Joy
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Jamil Dakwar on Free Speech and Authoritarianism
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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Mairav Zonszein on the Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Gideon Levy on Being Hated
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Jake Sullivan’s Mental Prison (A Sequel)
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Rachel Shabi and the Truth about Antisemitism
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Mikhael Manekin, Sermons from the Abyss
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Antony Blinken’s Mental Prison
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Can We Be Jimmy Carter?
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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American Jewish Fragility
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Daybreak in Gaza
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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Syria and the Future of the Middle East with Iyad El-Baghdadi
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Why Israel’s Supporters Get So Mad When Critics Call Gaza a “Genocide”
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Alia Malek on Syria's Future
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Syrians Deserve Freedom. So Do Palestinians.
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Muzaffar Chishti on Mass Deportation
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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American Fear
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Omer Bartov on Genocide and the ICC
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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Why the International Criminal Court’s Warrant for Netanyahu Matters
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Adam Serwer on American Cruelty
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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Brutalizing the Stranger
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Rebecca Traister on Trump’s Victory and the Gender Divide
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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November "Ask Me Anything"
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Don’t Confuse Popularity with Truth
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Jason Stanley on American Fascism
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Two More Reasons to Vote for Kamala Harris
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Muhammad Shehada on Gaza’s Unending Agony
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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If I Lived In a Swing State, I’d Vote for Harris
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Efrat Machikawa and Boaz Atzili on the Hostage Families Movement
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Israel’s Been Assassinating Palestinian Leaders For Decades
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Why He Wrote about Palestine and Israel
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Oct 20, 2024 |
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Trita Parsi on Iran, Hezbollah and Israel
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Two Final Thoughts about Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Book
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Joshua Leifer on the Future of American Jews
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Atoning for the Past Year
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Abdullah Hammoud on the Presidential Campaign in Michigan
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Rania Batrice and Matt Duss
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Tactical Success, Strategic Failure
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Laila Al-Arian on “The Night Won’t End”
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Mouin Rabbani on the Danger of a Regional War
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Why is Joe Biden Allowing This?
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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James Zogby
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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What I Wish Kamala Harris Had Said About Immigrants, and Herself
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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Rami Khouri
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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The Biden Administration’s Backdoor Ethnonationalism
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Raja Khouri and Jeffrey Wilkinson
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Let Zionists Speak
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Joe Biden is Not a Hero
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Hamas Is Not Iran’s “Proxy”
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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If You Can’t Win One War, Start an Even Bigger One
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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You Can’t Claim to Defend Liberal Democracy and Attend Netanyahu’s Speech to Congress
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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This is Why the Two Parties Are Not the Same
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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Calling Trump an Authoritarian Doesn’t Incite Violence
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Biden’s View of the World is Also Too Old
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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Why Are Democrats Afraid to Fight for Freedom?
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Jamaal Bowman’s Courage
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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What if Americans Saw Palestinian and Jewish Israeli Lives as Equal?
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Apocalyptic Thinking and Israel’s Looming War in Lebanon
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Who is Israeli?
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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The Strangeness of US Policy Toward Israel
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Why the Biden Administration Didn’t Foresee the Progressive Outrage at its Gaza Policy
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May 27, 2024 |
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The Campus Protesters Are Winning— and Why That Means Greater Repression to Come
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May 20, 2024 |
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Israel Can’t Win This War—Palestinians Told Us That From the Beginning
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May 13, 2024 |
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Six Observations about the Campus Protests
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May 06, 2024 |
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The Campus Protests Make Me Uncomfortable. And They Fill Me with Hope.
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Seeing Hagar, and Seeing Gaza, this Passover
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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How Israel and Iran Came to the Brink of All-Out War
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Why Biden and Schumer’s Anti-Netanyahu Strategy Won’t Work
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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How to Think about Antisemitism in America
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Why Chuck Schumer’s Speech Matters
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Gaza and the Course of History
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Where is the Biden Administration’s Self-Respect?
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Even Destroying Hamas Won’t Make Israel Safer
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Where are Our Jews?
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Why is the BDS Movement Attacking an Organization Trying to End the War?
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Biden and Gaza: Is Cruelty the Point?
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Jewish Scholars vs. Jewish Donors on Antisemitism
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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To Save the Hostages, End the War
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Challenging Israel’s Legitimacy Also Challenges America’s
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Who Will Deradicalize Us?
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Elise Stefanik, University Presidents, and the Politics of Distraction
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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American Words vs. American Deeds
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Dec 04, 2023 |