Arts & Culture
Jewcy Interviews: Peter Beinart
By Jared Bloom / December 16, 2010
A professor at the CUNY School of Journalism, a columnist at the Daily Beast, and the author of The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, Beinart is quickly making a name for himself as one of the country’s most well-respected commentators on domestic and international politics—and someone you can invite on TV who won’t foam at the mouth.
It’s been an interesting year for Beinart: In June, he wrote one of the most interesting pieces on American Jewish identity that we’ve read all year in the New York Review of Books, and his book has amassed heaps of praise from every outlet that matters.
This week Beinart sat down with Jewcy.com to talk about the Zionist movement in the United States, and whether Eric Clapton has the power to forge peace on the Korean peninsula.
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Alexander: Israel is occupying the West Bank, land that belongs to the Palestinians. If “occupation” is the same term Palestinian zealots use to call Jewish ownership of Israel proper, that’s a coincidence only. The former really is occupation, the latter is the type of misappropriation that zealots on both sides abuse.
The problem I have with the “occupation” term is that it insinuates that Jews are foreigners to our own land. When exactly did we give up our rights to the land?
What is Beinart doing through the video? He’s more fidgety than my 6-year-old nephew.
This was a well thought out respectful interview. Kudos to Jared Bloom. Your interview of Mr. Beinart touched upon many important topics. Unfortunately Mr. Beinart did not specify which policies vis-a-vis the West Bank Palestinians he found objectionable. You led him to the dance floor but the guy would not waltz. Too bad because details would have bolstered Mr. Beinart’s position.
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