https://pca.st/episode/c4c09ed4-0802-4c22-89ec-498c865fb435

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"This episode isn't focused on a single topic or text, but rather just wanting to have a wide-ranging conversation with our guest, Peter Beinart, editor-at-large of Jewish Currents and author of the recent book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning. We start by discussing the appalling wave of Islamophobic attacks against Zohran Mamdani during the last weeks of his victorious mayoral campaign, the short-sighted embrace of such bigotry by too many American Jews and Jewish institutions, the current iterations of anti-semitism roiling the right, religious tradition and progressive politics, changing your mind, and more. Listen again: "Elon Musk, the Jews, and the ADL" (w/ Mari Cohen, Alex Kane, & Peter Beinart), Sept 26, 2023 Sources: Zohran Mamdani, "My Message to Muslim New Yorkers—and Everyone Who Calls This City Home," YouTube, Oct 24, 2025 Peter Beinart, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning (2025) Mark Mazower, On Antisemitism: A Word in History, (2025) Arwa Mahdawi, "Mamdani's Mayoral Race was Marred by Unhinged Islamophobia. It's Not Going Away Soon," The Guardian, Nov 6, 2025 Romanus Cessario, O.P., "Non Possumus," First Things, Feb 1, 2018 George Washington, "To the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island," August 18, 1790 ...and don't forget to subscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon for access to all of our bonus episodes!"

11/22/2025 10:48:14 AM

i've followed him for a while as well. i think the majority of what he has to say (in terms of criticism of israeli government behavior) is reasonable and in good faith, but he suffers from the same problem as the rest of y'all. he puts all the agency on Israel, and ignores or dismisses the role of "the other side" in all of this. you can't fix a problem when you only pay attention to half of the story.

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"the appalling wave of Islamophobic attacks against Zohran Mamdani during the last weeks of his victorious mayoral campaign, the short-sighted embrace of such bigotry by too many American Jews and Jewish institutions"

agreed. i see it my twitter feed too. the worst of it is in replies to big accounts from "people" who generally don't use their real name or face so I don't take it as seriously (although it is a real problem in that their toxicity whether authentic or manufactured pollutes the commons) but I do see "real people" with actual followings say stupid nonsense too.

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"the current iterations of anti-semitism roiling the right, religious tradition and progressive politics, changing your mind"

indeed

11/22/2025 12:29:12 PM

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"he suffers from the same problem as the rest of y'all. he puts all the agency on Israel, and ignores or dismisses the role of "the other side" in all of this. you can't fix a problem when you only pay attention to half of the story."

Who here actually does that? Maybe only 0EP.

11/22/2025 12:56:49 PM

99% of the discourse here is israel bad. is anybody else here even willing to consider the possibility that "hey maybe the arabs made a mistake a long time ago" and have stubbornly refused to admit the mistake and have amplified that mistake 1,000,000x in the century since. no? we're just gonna stick with israel bad? oh ok.

[Edited on November 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM. Reason : if the hashemites and nashashibis hadn't lost the power struggle to the husseinis, we likely wouldn't be having this conversation]

11/22/2025 1:25:57 PM

Fine, I'll say it. Hamas was wrong to kidnap and murder and rape Jews.

11/22/2025 6:12:09 PM