Peter Beinart is a prominent American journalist and political commentator, a contributor to the New York Times, and currently editor-at-large at Jewish Currents. An Orthodox Jew, Mr. Beinart has written extensively on Israel and Palestine. Formerly a prominent defender of liberal Zionism and the two-state solution, he now believes in a single state where Palestinians and Jews live as equal citizens. In recent writings, he has also advocated for the the right of Palestinian refugee return.
We invite you to join us for an in-depth conversation with Mr. Beinart, as we explore the evolution of his thought, his perspective on reparative measures to heal present and past injustices, and why he believes the Jewish community should support Palestinian rights.
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Peter Beinart is Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York. He is also a Contributing Opinion Writer at The New York Times, a CNN Political Commentator, Editor-at-Large of Jewish Currents and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace. He writes the Beinart Notebook newsletter on Substack.Com
His first book, The Good Fight, was published by HarperCollins in 2006. His second book, The Icarus Syndrome, was published by HarperCollins in 2010. His third, The Crisis of Zionism, was published by Times Books in 2012.
Beinart has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Boston Globe, the Atlantic, Newsweek, Slate, Reader’s Digest, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Polity: the Journal of the Northeastern Political Science Studies Association. The Week magazine named him columnist of the year for 2004. In 2005, he gave the Theodore H. White lecture at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Beinart graduated from Yale University, winning a Rhodes scholarship for graduate study at Oxford University. After graduating from University College, Oxford, Beinart became The New Republic’s managing editor in 1995. He became senior editor in 1997, and from 1999 to 2006 served as the magazine’s editor.