An American Jew Reflects on Gaza (Robert Wright & Peter Beinart)

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🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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0:28 Peter’s new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza 1:42 Is it anti-Semitic to say Israeli policies foster anti-Semitism? 7:24 Zionism’s many meanings 10:44 How are American Jews grappling with Israel-Gaza? 16:44 The Democrats’ Israel bind 24:11 Is all hope lost for a two-state solution? 30:54 Anti-Semitic tropes, the Israel lobby, and Elon’s “gesture” 43:05 The unusual nature of Jewish identity 47:54 How Israel’s defenders get Israel wrong

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Peter Beinart (Jewish Currents, CUNY, https://peterbeinart.substack.com/). Recorded January 22, 2025.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast. You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:29.1	Hi, Peter.
0:30.7	Hi, how you doing?
0:32.4	All right.
0:33.5	Let me introduce this.
0:34.3	I'm Robert Wright, publisher, The Non-Zero Newsletter.
0:36.7	This is the Non-Z Zero podcast. You are Peter Byron. Yeah, yeah. Hey, you doubted me. You thought I was going to forget your name? Not at all. We noticed that we've a long time. We have. Okay. So, you've, for starters, written a book that's coming out right about now called Being
0:55.7	Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, A Reckoning. What else would you say about yourself by way of
1:02.1	introduction? What else? You know, I am a professor at CUNY. I have a newsletter like you do,
1:10.2	and I write for a bunch of places at the New York Times,
1:13.0	Jewish currents, mostly. What's your newsletter called? It's called the Bynart Notebook.
1:17.8	Mm-hmm. It is indeed. And I recommend that people check it out. In fact, I think maybe we recommend
1:23.8	each other. Do we recommend? I think we recommend. recommend. We should, yeah. I think we may.
1:29.0	And if you're not right, I think I'm recommending you, you better. Yeah. No, I think I think I think it's
1:33.6	mutual. I think it's mutual. I think the admiration is mutual. So, uh, I think the title of the book is
1:41.2	almost self-explanatory. Let me start with a question that may seem slightly out of left field, but I think you'll
1:47.3	see the relevance.
1:48.2	So not long ago, I was on Glenn Lowry show talking about this stuff.
1:55.2	Yes.
1:55.6	And by the way, I just recommended him that he have you on his show.
2:00.3	And turns out he's already aware of your book and everything.
2:04.2	Since then, you will have me to thank him.
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