{"id":25080,"date":"2021-10-15T13:43:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T17:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=25080"},"modified":"2021-10-19T09:33:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T13:33:23","slug":"peter-beinart-interview-on-anti-semitism-and-middle-east-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=25080","title":{"rendered":"Peter Beinart interview on anti-Semitism and Middle East politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is the video of yesterday&#8217;s conversation with Peter Beinart at Tufts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Peter Beinart - \u201cAntisemitism, U.S.-Israel Relations &amp; the Moral Responsibilities of Power\u201d\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2bQNH6Cm45A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I asked him:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What do you think is the relationship (if any) between rising anti-Semitism and rising criticism of Israel? <\/li><li>When is criticism of Israel anti-Semitic, and when isn\u2019t it?<\/li><li>Is it important that we have dialogue about Israel\/Palestine in places like Tufts? Why? What would be trying to accomplish?<\/li><li>In <a href=\"https:\/\/jewishcurrents.org\/its-time-to-name-anti-palestinian-bigotry\">Jewish Currents<\/a> in July, you wrote, \u201cIn mainstream American discourse, the word &#8216;anti-Palestinian&#8217; barely exists. It is absent not because anti-Palestinian bigotry is rare but because it is ubiquitous. It is absent precisely because, if the concept existed, almost everyone in Congress would be guilty of it, except for a tiny minority of renegade progressives who are regularly denounced as antisemites.\u201d Can you expand on that statement and talk a little more about why you focus on anti-Palestinian prejudice here, apart from Islamophobia or anti-Arab prejudice?<\/li><li>What should non-Jews know about Judaism to engage appropriately in civic life?<\/li><li>What is your own position on Israel\/Palestine now, and how did you get there?<\/li><li>What would a one state solution look like? How would the state be organized?<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the video of yesterday&#8217;s conversation with Peter Beinart at Tufts: I asked him: What do you think is the relationship (if any) between rising anti-Semitism and rising criticism of Israel? When is criticism of Israel anti-Semitic, and when isn\u2019t it? Is it important that we have dialogue about Israel\/Palestine in places like Tufts? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-and-video","category-iraq-and-democratic-theory","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25080"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25084,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25080\/revisions\/25084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}