Peter Alexander Beinart (born 1971) is an American political pundit.

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The sooner the party changes its stance on homosexuals, the faster it will make itself nationally competitive again, says Peter Beinart.

Sen. Lindsey Graham’s decision to link delaying action on the defense secretary nominee to Benghazi is rock bottom in the Republicans’ campaign against Hagel—which is fundamentally unserious and petty, says Peter Beinart.

Peter Beinart says the BDS movement's goals are too far afield from liberal Zionists' to gain their endorsement.

The Republicans’ campaign against the defense secretary nominee is unserious and petty, says Peter Beinart.

Peter Beinart explains why Israel is even more polarizing in South Africa than it is in America.

Peter Beinart explains what the Israeli election results may mean for the US: A weaker Israeli government does Obama little good right away. For the past four years, Israel has boasted a prime minister strong enough to move boldly toward...

Peter Beinart on AJE's 2012 recap tells Rashid Khalidi he wants Hamas/Fateh reconciliation as long as Palestinians don't fight occupation

Peter Beinart on the possible implications of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defence

If he’s confirmed, it could signal the beginning of a new era in American foreign policy, says Peter Beinart.

Thinking About The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris Programs In The Icarus Syndrome, Peter Beinart tells a tale as old as the Greeks -- a story about the seductions of success. Beinart describes Washington on the eve of three wars -- World War One, Vietnam, and Iraq -- three moments when American leaders decided they could remake the world in their image. Each time, leading intellectuals declared that history was over, and the spread of democracy was inevitable. Each time, a president held the nation in the palm of his hand. And each time, a war conceived in arrogance brought untold tragedy. In dazzling color, Beinart portrays three extraordinary generations: the progressives who took America into World War I, led by Woodrow Wilson, the lonely preacher's son who became the closest thing to a political messiah the world had ever seen. The Camelot intellectuals who took America into Vietnam, led by Lyndon Johnson, who lay awake at night after night shaking with fear that his countrymen consider ...

Necessary Criteria For The Good Fight: Why Liberal---and Only Liberals---Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again - An Update Once upon a time, liberals knew what they believed. They believed America must lead the world by persuasion, not command. And they believed that by championing freedom overseas, America itself could become more free. That liberal spirit won America's trust at the dawn of the Cold War. Then it collapsed in the wake of Vietnam. Now, after 9/11, and the failed presidency of George W. Bush, America needs it back. In this powerful and provocative book, Peter Beinart offers a new liberal vision, based on principles liberals too often forget: That America's goodness cannot simply be asserted; it must be proved. That American leadership is not American empire. And that liberalism cannot merely define itself against the right, but must oppose the totalitarianism that blighted Europe a half century ago, and which stalks the Islamic world today. With liberals severed from their ...

Here is a book review I did recently for an academic journal. It deals with Peter Beinart's efforts to create a liberal face for Zionism. Unfortunately for Professor Beinart, Zionism really never had such a face, nor can it successfully wear such a mask. LD Peter Beinart, The Crisis of Zionism Henry Holt and Co. Times Books 2012 (26.00 cloth) Part I - Background History is an interpretive enterprise that sometimes generates widely different renderings of the same events. Each observer can put forth his or her evidence to try to make their version or story convincing. This happens all the time, both at the professional level of the historian and at the everyday level of witnesses and polemicists. The issue of Zionism and Israel have been the subjects of contested history for at least 95 years (counting from 1917 and the Balfour Declaration). Ask an Israeli about the national history taught to him or her and compare that to historical information known to almost all Palestinians and you will get very d ...

Now, Chris Hughes just needs an Andrew Sullivan, a Chuck Lane, and a Peter Beinart to complete his set.

Obama has a chance to change Israel policy for the better with Hagel at defense, writes Peter Beinart.

Writing in the Crisis of Zionism, Peter Beinart argues that Barack Obama spent his whole adulthood with Jews,hence they funded/mentored him.

Report: “Obama Will Let Netanyahu Face International Isolation On His Own” author Tuesday December 11, 2012 10:00author by IMEMC & Agencies Report post A recent report published in the Newsweek by Peter Beinart, who is described as a “Jewish liberal at the American-Jewish community in the United States", also close to the Obama Administration, stated that Barack Obama will not help Netanyahu in overcoming international pressure against his policies with the Palestinians. Image Arabs48 Image Arabs48 Beinart said that, by facing the International Community on his own, Netanyahu will feel the heat of isolation, and might change his policies, mainly the ongoing construction and expansion of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, and in occupied East Jerusalem. The new U.S approach that Obama likely to initiate in dealing with Netanyahu was described as “benign neglect”. Beinart says that Obama, serving his second and final term in office, will not be directly confronting Netanyahu “and wil ...

Peter Beinart and Alan Dershowitz on the conversation that desperately needs to happen while peace is still a possibility.

Peter Beinart on how Mahmoud Abbas's bid for U.N. sanction of a Palestinian state could explode the West Bank.

Caroline Glick exposes America’s unJews and puts them in their place.df] November 21, 2012 The liberal anti-Semitic projection syndrome By Caroline Glick I've been on the road for the past several days and out of the loop so to speak. I just got home last night. I read a blog post by Jonathan Tobin from Commentary today where I discovered that the post-Zionist poster boy of the American Jewish left Peter Beinart is now accusing Israel's non-Jewish supporters of being anti-Semites. Beinart you see, thinks that an anti-Semite is someone who criticizes anti-Zionist (or post-Zionist, or fair-weathered Zionist) American Jews for hanging Israel out to dry. So if a non-Jew criticizes, say Peter Beinart for spewing nonsense about how Israel's rejection of Beinart's positions on territorial surrender legitimizes anti-Israel sentiment, then that person is an anti-Semite. Beinart, after all, criticizes Israel as a Jew so since he does it as a Jew, attacking him for making ridiculous accusations against Israel make ...

absurdity of Peter Beinart on the Upper West Side telling Israel to accommodate Hama: Israel’s Fatal Game via

1980-1981- Israel Teams Up With Republicans to Defeat Jimmy Carter- During the Iran hostage crisis of 1979-1981, Israel, upset at President Jimmy Carter’s attempt to create a peaceful two-state solution in Palestine, used its clandestine operations in Iran to prevent American hostages from being released before Carter’s re-election bid. Carter wrote in his White House Diaries that Israel was purposefully thwarting the peace process with Palestine so it could continue to settle on Palestinian land. History has certainly proven Carter right, and Peter Beinart, the author of The Crisis of Zionism confirms this fact by investigating every major Israeli-Palestinain peace negotiation, and pointing out Israel’s efforts to subvert them. According to Consortium News, Israel used its operatives in Iran to ensure that US hostages were not released before the election, which doomed Carter’s chances for re-election. The hostages were released immediately after Reagan’s inauguration, and Israel was subsequent ...

MONDAY calendar: Red vs Blue Debate w/ political commentators Jonah Goldberg and Peter Beinart, 7:30 pm, Mary Linn; free/open to the public.

As the MJCC decides to cancel Peter Beinart's book talk in Atlanta, we continue a dangerous pattern in Atlanta. During tomorrow's Shabbat service I plan to discuss the concerns of censorship in the Jewish during a time of desired affiliation.

Peter Beinart @ Middlebury college tomorrow! I'm there like an Israeli bulldozer on a Palestinian's olive grove.

Republicans have accused Powell of backing Obama because he’s black. But the former secretary of state endorsed the president because he thinks Obama is better for the American military, says Peter Beinart.

Monday, November 5, 2012 - Political commentators Peter Beinart and Jonah Goldberg will speak for their respective conservative and liberal beliefs in a stirring debate on the candidates that will change the United States in 2012 and beyond. The event begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Ron Houston Center ...

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I think my exact words were "It's like Peter Beinart wants me to give him a cookie cause he's noticed the occupation is bad"

Responding to move by Likud & Yisrael Beytenu, we are now in merger talks with Americans for Peace Now, Kahane Chai, & Peter Beinart's ego.

Insomnia after Peter Beinart + 4 hours of Gossip Girl. Oh Lord, how will tomorrow be?

Peter Beinart, Shimon Peres, Amos Oz, David Grossman, myself, and hundereds of thousands of others.

Why George W. won the foreign policy debate by Peter Beinart for

"Obama, Romney and Bob Schieffer discussed foreign policy almost exclusively through the Bush prism. The focus was on countries where the United States is already at war, or soon could be." Peter Beinart

Good to see the crew at Peter Beinart event in internal dialogue within Jewish community is important

Peter Beinart: 'How the United States, its own might sapped by the financial crisis and wars of imperial overstretch, meets the challenge posed by countries that are converting their economic success into geopolitical power, is the defining foreign policy question of our time. Not only wasn’t that question answered tonight, it wasn’t even posed.' Nonetheless, get everyone you know out for Obama.

Heading to the Peter Beinart speaking event at Temple Israel tonight.

Crisis of Zionism by Peter Beinart and One Country by Ali Abunimah are both really interesting.

Peter Beinart on who really won last night's debate

Take another look at the future of media 10/30 with David Carr & Stephen Shepard, part of Perspectives w/Peter Beinart

Hey I didn't say it Mira Sucharov did - now read it :-) Thanks Mira

Ameinu board member Mira Sucharov on Daniel Gordis, Peter Beinhart and a "behind the scenes" trip to Israel.

Why you should go hear Peter Beinart on Tuesday in Ottawa (or on Wednesday in Montreal)...my latest in the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin.

Unlike Kennedy, who toughened his stance over time, Obama has persisted with a policy of managed decline in American strength as a global power. Romney's policy of “peace through strength” is closer to the norm of past American presidents. That is why the president’s defenders--notably Peter Beinart...

Biden proved he's an *** That's it .Why Biden had the better night at

Peter Beinart fact checks Biden: There's no way he's been friends with Bibi for 39 years.

Ryan put on a good show, but he was sailing against his own party’s headwinds. Peter Beinart on why Biden had the better night—and why this race is still Obama’s to lose.

Why was running uphill + was running downhill. My take on the

Peter Beinart Daily Beast piece on why Biden crushed Paul Ryan.

When the candidate is a private equity gazillionaire who called 47% of Americans losers, you start from way behind.

Biden won, but he had the easier job, argues Peter Beinart.

"Biden won, but he had easier job argues Peter Beinart. yeah super low xpectations for plugs

Why Ryan was running uphill + Biden was running downhill. My Daily Beast take on the VP debate.

Sunday, October 14 at 10:30am in CDT at KAM Isaiah Israel

The New Israel Fund of Canada is pleased to bring in academic and author Peter Beinart for an evening of discussion and drinks geared towards the New Generation community (people aged 20-40) at the Wolf & Firkin. As supporters of Israel, we want it to be the best it can be. And we feel compelled...

A reader asks Peter Beinart: Why is it worth preserving a Jewish state?

Why is it worth preserving a Jewish state? Peter Beinart answers.

Good piece by Peter Beinart on the Barak/Netanyahu split:

(Etch a Sketch) Romney jettisoned GOP’s economic agenda Americans don’t like-no big philosophical disagreement here?

Romney jettisoned almost everything about the GOP’s economic agenda that Americans don’t like and essentially told them: There’s no big...

Romney's strategy for the final month: run as the moderate he used to be Sorry, Tea Party (still GOTV pls!)

Awesome, Will! Very good! You seem to be on the same page as Peter Beinart about what happened last night, and I agree.

Mitt pretended he and Obama broadly agree, turning race from ideological choice back into a referendum on Obama.

Peter Beinart: Romney’s Crafty Moderate Act via This is what really happened, needs to be emphasized.

Peter Beinart is NOT a cry-baby. …Turn off the TV & read. Stop whining & fight back. Did you think this would be easy?

Romney changed his strategy last night. Peter Beinart says it worked to his advantage:

Thought this was a pretty fair take:

"How Romney won the debate by being Bush -running as a moderate" … whatabout deceiving the electorate?

The most important moment of the debate was when Obama conceded that he & Romney basically agree on Social Security

But Romney tried to cloak his conservatism, argues Daily Beast's Peter Beinart:

How Romney won the debate by being Bush instead of Reagan. My latest in Daily Beast.

Peter Beinart says not possible to blame Palestinians alone, or mainly, for present diplomatic impasse in -

Romney's crafty moderate debate strategy: there's no big philosophical disagreement here

As part of our Ask Andrew Anything series, a reader asks Peter Beinart: do you think Israel will move to strike Iran's nuclear facilities in the near future?

Why Israel’s purposes cannot be grasped only through the American Jewish experience.

Benjamin Netanyahu loves history. And he loves deriding his critics for not understanding it as well as he does. In his address to the United Nations General Assembly last year, he attacked journalists for their weak grasp of past events, calling for a “press whose sense of history extends beyond br...

No and that's why Peter Beinart rightly suggests people refer to WB as "non-democratic Israel"

Mitt will give a pitch-perfect, button-down speech accepting the GOP nomination Thursday night. But what if he said what he really thinks? If only he could figure out what that is. By Matt Latimer. Plus, Peter Beinart on what Mitt should say in his speech.

A Quiet Campaign of Violence Against American Muslims In Newsweek by Peter Beinart (link below) a good read. It seems in typical American DIY shoot first and who needs questions, I just shot. Muslim, Sihk, Trevon Martin... It don't matter, if it's brown shoot it DOWN. When everyone has a gun and a bullet proof vest we shall know piece. TG4NRA!!

Romney is doubling down on the white working class. Peter Beinart on the internal GOP rift over neglecting women and minorities—and how his strategy will hurt him this fall.

Not so much. These days, virtually every time someone on the American right bashes President Barack Obama for kowtowing to dictators or failing to shout that we're at war, they light a votive candle to Ronald Reagan. Former presidential candidate John McCain has called his own foreign-policy views "...

Crisis of Zionism: Peter Beinart on need for US Jewish community to rethink Israel/Palestine. Tuesday, Lenox, 4pm.

Peter Beinart on the "Palestinians are an invented people" argument:

Fareed Zakaria announces his first guests upon his return: Peter Beinart, Tom Friedman, and for a proIsrael counterpoint, Roger Cohen :-)

oh that's the website that oddly stole Peter Beinart's "Zion Square" title. Weird

Love too strong a word. But they sure like him: And exclusive interview w/ prez

One wonders whether Beinart or Tom Friedman have seen this.Both are blind 2 the steps Israel has already taken for peace

Peter Beinart explains how Romney has alienated Jews by choosing Ryan. (Whew, I thought he'd left them out.)

He forfeited any real chance of winning American Jewish voters when he chose Ryan, says Peter Beinart.

'Mitt Romney lost the American Jewish vote by picking Paul Ryan,' says Peter Beinart

"American Jews feel almost twice as sympathetic to American Muslims as they do to the Christian right." (Peter Beinart)

Interesting column by Peter Beinart on why US Jewish voters may feel uncomfortable with Ryan

Peter Beinart reminds us that American Jews are a bunch of pinko hippies

: What Gingrich and Adelson and Santorum Really Mean When They Say the Palestinian People are Invented/ Peter Beinart

Romney’s Ryan pick is meant to shake up the race, excite conservatives, rouse a jaded media, and save the day. But American politics is littered with bold and improbable decisions that didn’t work out well.

if you ask me that Peter Beinart guy has a suspicious obsession with Jews.

Peter Beinart's "The Crisis of Zionism" is a must read for all who would like to know contemporary events effecting Israel's neighborhood

"Why do Gingrich and Adelson think it matters? Presumably because if there’s no such thing as a Palestinian, then there’s no basis for a Palestinian state. But American conservatives, of all people, surely know that our most basic rights don’t stem from our membership in a group. They stem from our existence as individuals endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights. Which is to say: if you deny Palestinians in the West Bank the right to vote, the right to citizenship, the right to free movement and the right to due process, telling them they’re not members of something called the Palestinian people doesn’t let Israel off the hook. To the contrary, it leaves Israel very much on the hook." - Peter Beinart 8/13/2012

Ryan was a bold pick - but it may not pay off, says Peter Beinart :

Mitt’s running mate has stronger ties to the GOP base than he does. Peter Beinart on how picking Paul Ryan hands Obama a big gift.

This is in essence what Peter Beinart says in his book "The Crisis in Zionism".

Romney’s Overseas Trip: The Real Toll. The original article is by writer Peter Beinart. You can find the original article in this weeks Newsweek or by reading it online at The Daily Beast. ~R~ I am shocked by this article. There are observations made in it that we all have read and tossed aside more often than tissue paper during a bout of flu but, because I read on, I am floored! I have never felt particularly comfortable with Mitt Romney's campaign for president starting with his kick off, I find something wanting in his character, he seems to have an issue or two darkly important inside. I have watched him during debates and interview's and the man seems distracted almost detached from the moment. What does this man have to feel uncomfortable about? I must also confess that I have not been overly impressed with the job that Barack Obama has done while in office either but he has been able to make me feel assured when he is overseas. Let's go to paragraph six of the article. I admit, this is just one ...

Settlers have already converted some 400 dunams of Susya's land from agricultural use, as part of a modus operandi that is well-known in the West Bank.

Even if Harry Reid is correct and Romney evaded paying taxes, Democrats’ obsession with the issue diverts attention from the real debate—the difference between his politics and Obama’s, says Peter Beinart.

Today's best columns: Peter Beinart on Romney's irrelevant tax returns and Bill Keller on leak fever

I understand the points Peter Beinart is trying to make in his article in Daily Beast, but I think he's being rather naive. He writes that whether or not the public remembers Romney's specific missteps on his foreign trip, he has created an impression of blundering that will change voters' perceptions of him for the worse. Really? Compared to what? Our own President bowing to the Emperor of Japan or giving the British Prime Minister a set of videos as a gift? (And supporters of Obama had better hope the public doesn't dwell too much on the fact that Lech Walesa endorsed Romney after pointedly refusing to meet with Obama last year following the European missile defense affair.) I agree that the things Romney did and said last week were absurd, but it doesn't seem to occur to Beinart that the sort of voter who prefers Romney may happen to see the rest of the world pretty much the way Romney himself appears to see it: as a collection of backward places to be lectured to and then improved with "American know- ...

"Imagine if every time Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton or John Bolton or John McCain or William Kristol was interviewed about military intervention in Iran or Syria, the interviewer began by asking what they’ve learned about the subject from their experience supporting the war in Iraq." - Peter Beinart

In Jerusalem, Romney used Talmudic references and Tisha B’Av to suggest the U.S. should never publicly disagree with Israel’s actions, and to virtually deny Palestinian humanity. That may help him win Jewish votes, but it is bad Judaism, says Peter Beinart.

Peter Beinart. In a 2010 essay "The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment" Peter…

Exposing the anti-Israel blog that uses the misleading title

On 'The Crisis of Zionism': Why you should read Peter Beinart

Ahead of Mitt Romney's meetings with the PM + Ed Mili tmrw, here's a scathing piece on Mitt's worldview

"Peter Beinart is a liberal Zionist, and a card-carrying one at that. If he didn't exist the Israeli think-tank...

The investigation of Jerry Sandusky began when Tom Corbett, the Pennsylvania governor, was attorney general. What took so long? Plus, Peter Beinart asks, Is there any honor left in football?

Peter Beinart writes that Romney’s overseas trip is an extended exercise in Cold War nostalgia UK Israel AIPAC Iran

Must Israel choose between democracy and a Jewish majority? Has settlement activity gone too far to be reversed? What is the role of the American Jewish community? Do boycotts have a role or are they only for Israel haters?

Peter Beinart was writing in the context of the US which is the main sponsor of Israel.His thesis ...

The GOP’s presidential hope heads overseas with an agenda that’s hopelessly out of date. Peter Beinart on Mitt’s Cold War worldview—and what he’s missing.

to my jewish cousins* young American Jews abandoning american zionism? Can this be,as Peter Beinart writes, true?

Peter Beinart is tricking himself with his "liberal Zionism" and he knows that

Peter Beinart: Mitt Romney's Overseas Trip Smacks of Cold War Nostalgia: In his big foreign-policy spe...

Read peter beinart's "the crisis within zionism".Original zionist ideals have got hijacked by rabid racists who see arabs as vermins!

Romney 2 audition 4 the role every Repub pres candidate has been trying to play since the Cold War’s end: Ronald Reagan

Hi, welcome to the 21st century! "international trip smacks of Cold War nostalgia

international trip smacks of Cold War nostalgia

clueless with Bush neocon team! Beinart: Romney’s Overseas Trip Smacks of Cold War Nostalgia

Mitt Hopelessly Out of Date on Foreign Policy: Peter Beinart, Daily BeastCall it the nostalgia tour. On Tuesday,...

Amazing lecture tonite at chilmark community center.Peter Beinart and Alan Dershowitz and Richard Paterson and Aaron Y D Rabinowitz.Is what I call a perfect summer night. Romeo and Juliet Thurday.Outdoor theater at Tashmo with Aaron . How many teens want to share their summer with their Mama! Rare days to be treasured.

Only hours after the bombing in Bulgaria (7 dead) Peter Beinart already had tparsi and the "blame Israel first and always" on his site.

Join Peter Beinart, senior political writer for "The Daily Beast" and editor-in-chief of Open Zion, as he...

As in do I think it's an honest caricature? Yes. And Obama certainly didn't take issue with it:

"Occupying another people requires racism" Peter Beinart in "The Crisis of Zionism"!

Read "The Crisis of Zionism" by Peter Beinart.Accrding to Truman Institute at Hebrew University 44% of jewisj ...

Read "The Crisis of Zionism" by Peter Beinart.Did you know that 56% of Jewish-Israeli High School students ...

The Nature of the Enemy - Peter Beinart comments on the suicide bombing of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria:

Peter Beinart writes on yesterday's tragic bombings:

Peter Beinart is not Palestinian lol. But seriously, who?

Peter Beinart in says widely perceived failure of Obama on peace due to unwillingness to pressure Israel -

Recognition of Ariel College as a university in Israel is another death blow to Peter Beinart's democratic/undemocratic Israel thesis.

I still want to give Peter Beinart 6 figures -

The problem of Peter Beinart is not that most Jews who heard about him, dislike him, but that Arabs hate him.

In which tries to cast itself as a type of Beinart (Have you asked Peter about your site?) |

Why Obama Is Succeeding in the Mideast: Peter Beinart, Daily BeastThe recent massacres of hundreds of Sy...

Last week, in a piece on Open Zion, Peter Beinart defended J Street from MJ Rosenberg and myself, and our criticism of its decision to strongly oppose the Presbyterian Church's targeted divestment initiative. Today, I respond on Open Zion here.

Have you read the very controversial The Crisis of Zionism by Peter Beinart, Evan?

Honest question: Have you been following the shunning of Peter Beinart over the past six months?

Maybe Jewish Voice For Peace is more effective than J St because its entirely run by women.

I dont totally agree w Jewish Voice 4 Peace but it's an effective organization that doesnt care what the lobby thinks.

I like some of the people at J St, mainly Jeremy Ben Ami. But I think it's a failure.

Ethnic solidarity is BS whether its Jews or Muslims who invoke it as excuse 4 silence.

It is time for J St & other anti-occupation groups to stop worrying what the Jewish right is going to say.

Israel crowd demands Muslims reject ethnic solidarity with bad guys while themselves standing all for one, one for all.

Don't claim you oppose the occupation if you actively undermine the movement to

.to "are Palestinians also allowed to 'do what you gotta do?'"

J Street's problem: ethnic solidarity over morality.

wrong About J Street? not sure, but J street is dead wrong in undermining JVP at

One does not oppose colossal evil by only using tactics the other side finds acceptable. By

Peter Beinart saw her coming and closed Open Zion.

Peter Beinart may be right about J St doing what it's gotta do. I prefer idealism. Fight the power.

Liberal Zionist Beinart sees this intransigent position as a huge threat to a “democratic Israel” and to the very “legitimacy” of the Zionist project.

The Crisis of Zionism by Peter Beinart: 1 The Crisis in Israel   As a Zionist, I believe that after two millennia of homelessness, the Jewish people deserve a state dedicated to their protection in their historic land, something enjoyed by many peoples who have suffered far less. A...

People often disparage the president in polls, but they like him a lot more than they like Romney, and that could prove crucial in November, writes Peter Beinart.

The Daily Beast shared the following link and had this to say about it: "Are you Peter Beinart?" called out the woman. She was in her 60s or 70s, thin, with an Israeli accent. "Yes," I replied, and walked over to shake her hand. She paused, before reluctantly extending hers, then declared, "I'm very angry at you. You don't understand all the harm you do."

Political scientist Peter Beinart says that how Jews handle power will be the test of the Jewish tradition.

"A good way to test if someone is on the Jewish left or Jewish right: ask them if there's more global anti-semitism today than in, say, 1965" (via Peter Beinart)

Peter Beinart, a political science professor at New York University, has long been a decidedly mainstream voice of the American center-left, a member in good standing of the Jewish establishment. Like many American Jews, Beinart has long identified as a “liberal zionist,” and a dedicated supporter o...

Beinart’s essay has received a remarkable amount of attention, especially considering that its underlying premise is simply false.

I suspect that Peter Beinart would relish an invitation to speak at the Presbyterian convention and lecture Israel.

ALL OF YOU means those who refuse to acknowledge that people have a right to criticize Isr…

I just read two articles about his talk there: One in Haaretz and the other on timesofisr…

And there it is! Because I agree with a criticism of Israeli policies, that means I am fu…

Yeah well said Jeff. The occupation is exactly what's making Israel less safe, which is t…

Jeff I highly doubt he can back up his statements...don't expect anything to come of it.

How does spending time in Israel have anything to do with whether or not I can know someth…

Peter Beinart tells Israelis to take risks for peace but he won't share the risks. He won't be in a bomb shelter in Sderot.

Beinart who earns his notoriety by excoriating Israel, suggests Romney's planned visit to Israel is political. Peter, enough already!

Visit Peter Beinart's Open Zion page on The Daily Beast for frank talk on the Middle East

My latest: Peter Beinart Slams Israel Hard-Liners in "Crisis of Zionism" by

Peter Beinart's article from the New York Times about divestment from settlements was just cited from the podium of the PC-USA GA as an argument in favor of divestment from "settlements" in the West Bank. PC-USA backed selective divestment.

The whole Zionist on Zionist debate carried by Peter Beinart continues to fascinate me.

Narcissism & delusion 2 the extreme Peter Beinart seems to think only he can determine what really antisemitism is & who real neo nazis are

It seems that Arabs hate Peter Beinart much more than they hate "right wing extremists."

Peter Beinart, *** Jagger of the U.S. Jewish establishment,’ faces the music - Haaretz -

Peter Beinart helped create atmosphere for win. He made divestment from occupation kosher. Brave.

If I were my boss I would not be able to be my boss Peter Beinart. The grace he brings to all this madness is astonishing.

Peter Beinart & Tom Friedman are exceptionally naive men. They judge Arab leaders based on their hospitality to Tom and Pete

Peter Beinart offers great insight on the American-Jewish narrative.

Peter Beinart on Mitt Romney's real reasons for heading to Jerusalem...Heads up: it's not about beefing up his fp cred

From D.Gordis: What do y'all think of this? Written by Elisheva Goldberg, who works for Peter Beinart

If Golda Meir was alive, she would die| Must be because of Peter Beinart

I'm waiting for Peter Beinart to say that a component part was manufactured in Ariel so we must boycott the device.

Attacking Online by Ben Cohen //Featuring a stark caution for Peter Beinart

'Full-time antagonists of Israel such as M.J. Rosenberg, Max Blumenthal, Philip Weiss, and Peter Beinart' [Beinart?]

I got to "full-time antagonists of Israel like ... Peter Beinart" and stopped. That's an outrageous slander.

is asked why he demands aisraelis take risks that he won't share.Peter has no answer-

Peter beinart is hypocrite ! He lives in america were PPl are not fighting for the right2 excised! He think he know what right4israel! Duh

I am proud of my my sister son who is american serving in elite IDFunit! By him doing so he in a way protect many peter beinart's in america

can someone please kick Peter Beinart in the balls

The chief justice’s health-care ruling has enraged conservatives today. But the decision will channel Republican anger back to the polls, where it belongs. By Peter Beinart.

Supreme Court decision on Obamacare will energize the base:

Affordable Care Act ruling: chief justice helped to restore a badly needed sense of legitimacy to the Supreme Court.

"Roberts has proved that at least some conservatives really believed all that talk about judicial restraint."

Well put ! “Why conservatives may thank John Roberts one day

Those who complain today, will benefit from today's decision in the long run. Peter Beinart explains:

Why conservatives may thank John Roberts one day

Obamacare Ruling: Peter Beinart on the Favor Justice Roberts Did the Right via

JERUSALEM -- Peter Beinart considers himself a supporter of Israel. He attends synagogue and sends his children to a private Jewish school in New York City.

Beinart "brings a buzz when he arrives and spreads stardust when he leaves," except when he comes to Bard, apparently.

Everything about this interaction is impressive: Haaretz but most of all Peter Beinart --

Funny that Peter Beinart hasn't taken public stance on Caterpillar divestment. Doesn't it fit his "Zionist BDS" rules? Or is he a hypocrite?

I've finished reading Peter Beinart's The Crisis of Zionism last week, and I enthusiastically recommend it to all of you. It is an excellent and important book, which is not to say I agree with everything in it.

I just bought: 'The Crisis of Zionism' by Peter Beinart via

Peter Beinart mistake is casting himself as a liberal Zionist. I am no Zionist.Just want both people safe,secure &controlling own destiny.

Best written response 2"Israel is greater than our democracy." He needs 2 read yr post!

Turns out Peter Beinart isn’t evil: During his Presidential Conference session with bloggers, the man many like ...

What do Peter Beinart and Abe Foxman agree on? That weakening identity is primary cause of Israel-America Jewish rift.

yes there's quite a lot of irony, but I don't think it's quite what you think it is, AP. via

Sad :( never wants his 6 year old to have to choose not to be a Zionist.

AP interview with takes for granted vile racist notion that too many Palestinian babies ruin "democracy"

Author rattles Jewish leaders: Peter Beinart's views on Israel upset the American Jewish community from Salon

well it doesn't take much to make us nervous “Peter Beinart rattles the Jewish establishment

The Peter Paradox Cont’d: That’s the Peter Beinart Paradox.read more JPostBlogs

American Jews on left & right argue about how 2 divide up remaining Palestinian land

- where Zionists argue about exactly how many Palestinians constitute a threat to the Jewish state

Uri Heilman's take on the Presidential Conference, seemingly part critical, part wonder.

Listening to Peter Beinart in Jerusalem this eve at the Molad offices

DTN Israel: At the Israeli Presidential Conference: from Dr. Ruth to Peter Beinart: The deliberately eclectic Is...

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Just heard Peter Beinart lay out what has become of his case: if the two-state solution becomes non-viable, we will lose some of the young among the American Jewish elite who will move toward support for secular binationalism. I gotta say: with all the caveats and hedging in his phrasing of the case, I think he's basically right. But the devil, as always, is in the details. How big is that very skeptical young elite? Why should we care about a handful of young Americans contemplating secular binationalism when the idea has no chance of gaining any traction in Israel among Israelis? It isn't Israelis who should care, but - in Beinart's analysis, at least - American Jews. These kids won't change Israeli policy or Israel's strategic environment, but they might decide to disaffiliate. Perhaps, then, the problem Beinart has noticed is that for a small number of young Jews, their relationship with their Jewish community is dependent on political agreement. If that is the case, it's not dramatically different th ...

Great piece re: Peter Beinart > Trojan Horses and the President's Conference - Op-Eds - Israel National News:

Peter Beinart stays cool with the Israel-haters, whereas I am repulsed 2B in the same room as Israel-haters

RWNJ pr flack replaces Gandhi with...Beinart - crazy and hilarious on multiple levels

Jeremy Ben Ami & Peter Beinart stay cool with Israel Firsters. I admire that. I am repelled to be in room with them.

What made Beinart’s piece raise a firestorm was not its content but its author’s stature in the American Jewish community.

Former liberal hawk Peter Beinart wants to create a more "humane" Zionism, but is his book too little, too late?

Peter Beinart's Brave, Quixotic Quest: The former liberal hawk wants to create a more humane Zionism, but have t...

Peter Beinart’s Brave, Quixotic Quest: In late March, at the third annual conference of J Street, th...

Watching Peter Beinart on CNN and I honestly don't think he understands that killing heads of state in wartime is generally legal

Peter Beinart calls his own boycott Antisemitic:

Peter Beinart's youthful indiscretions with nation-building have convinced him that we just need to kill bad guys.

Hey, bloggers! What will you ask Peter Beinart at the Israeli Presidential Conference?

A loon argues that has "renounced has own people" by challenging him to lecture Arabs. Or something...

Fanatical bigots call for boycott of Jewish speaker

Peter Beinart, making me look like an *** for just talking about how impressed I was w/ his post-Iraq introspection:

Norman Finkelstein talks to Frank Barat about American Jews and their wavering support for Israel. Filmed in London, February 2012. Camera, sound and editing...

What is happening between Nicholas Kristof and Peter Beinart

Props to students at my alma mater for giving Beinart a hard time about the nakba. Woot!

Love me love me love I'm a liberal … Peter Beinart finally goes over the deep end:

America's best answer to foreign policy problems is assassination? Come on, Peter Beinart. Be at least a little more creative.

Peter Beinart in Newsbeast: you know, assassinating Assad wouldn't be all that bad pot, meet kettle. Kettle, pot.

Front Page Magazine is asking where the Arab equivalent of Peter Beinart (a Zionist) is. He's hanging out with the black caucus of the KKK.

Playing the Race Card: Youssef Munayyer, writing in Peter Beinart’s Open Zion of late, made an ungrudging conces...

Come listen to Middle East experts Peter Beinart and Jamal Abdi speak at Siegal College June 12, 7:30pm. Plymouth is a co-sponssr.

Are Peter Beinart and Paul Krugman making themselves clear?...

Where Is the Arab Peter Beinart? | FrontPage Magazine: There is a plethora of Israeli and Jewish organizations w...

Where Is the Arab Peter Beinart?: Proof that Israel has no peace partner in the region.

.speaks @ Temple Emanuel in Kingston NY today @ 7PM & signs The Crisis of Zionism!

Let’s praise Zengerle’s profile of Beinart: Jason Zengerle's profile of Peter Beinart has shifted ...

Peter Beinart thought his book on Israel would be a rallying cry for liberal Zionism

Just bc some of Peter Beinart's thoughts on Zionism R convenient for Pali solidarity, dsn't mean they come from a sincere care for humanity

Politico reports that the American people have tuned out via

Peter Beinart and his self serving book, Peter Beinart conversation is over via

Peter beinart is Richard Cohen in the embryonic stage of banal punditry.

Obama jokes with Jewish Zionist pundits about his own lack of power 2 confront them in interest of USA: via

Dashing on odd notion that no one less "white" than he is entitled to color prejudice

In two recent essays on The Times of Israel, Professor Shaul Magid examines the status of right-left relations regarding.

My latest for on Peter Beinart, Jeffrey Goldberg, and the civil war among liberal American Jews.

absolutely. prediction: peter beinart will consider the end of apartheid in Palestine his "legacy"

Beinart surprised me with a great article on Obama, paralleling his own life objectives as an African-Hawaiian American with those of Jewish Americans.

Peter Beinart writes on U.S. humanitarian intervention in Syria:

Why is a synagogue hosting an advocate of boycotting Jews?

• Peter Beinart: Trojan Horse in the Temple by Rachel Neuwirth and John Landau

Oy. they need to toss this guy out on his noggin. Seriously, the world is confused and evil enough without...

Peter Beinart: Trojan Horse in the Temple: Why are Jews rolling out the red carpet for a slander...

Peter Beinart has weighed in. His polemic, The Crisis of Zionism, is a plea for a moderated US foreign policy...

Asked ex-Israeli soldier @ kibbutz on border w/ Lebanon abt Peter Beinart's thesis in "The Crisis of Zionism." Reply: "— the American Left."

The crisis of Zionism: Quotes from Hannah Arendt and Peter Beinart on the "crisis of Zionism."

Peter Beinart, who participated in last week's HOT BUTTONS, made the Jerusalem Post 50 Most Influential Jews list --

You will not want to miss this debate. With Peter Beinart and R' Riskin.

The Crisis in Zionism by Peter Beinart - a book that defines how Zionism will destroy Israel -

I was sickened (and very much disagree) with The Jerusalem Post naming Peter Beinart and Jeremy Ben-Ami to ...

The Crisis of Zionism by Peter Beinart - cc another book suggestion! :)

Critique of Peter Beinart's Crisis Of Zionism: should read this since they R 98% of USA & impacted by

Alisia Batrez liked Israeli democracy was dead on arrival: Peter Beinart's "Crisis of Zionism" reviewed: Rod Such 13…

Book Review by David Shulman of Peter Beinart’s The Crisis of Zionism (The New York Review of…

Slater on Beinart: Peter Beinart's call for religious segregation in the Jewish community wou...

Jerome Slater: On the US and Israel: Peter Beinart’s "The Crisis of Zionism" and Its Critics.

DTN Israel: 'Don't check Zionism at the door': Over past two years, Peter Beinart has become household name for ...

Everytime I read Peter Beinart, I want to read more.

"Naomi Chazan "what we are seeing is virtually racist riots on the streets of Tel Aviv"-- Don't tell Peter Beinart.

After the publication of my previous essay in The Times of Israel,

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