Avoiding the “American Solution” in the Middle East—At All Costs

My guest today is Peter Beinart, author of Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza. It’s hard to improve on his book title for summing up our conversation, where we explored some of the history of American Jewish identity, the possibility that what we dubbed the “American solution” might succeed, and how, in Peter’s estimation, we can and must hold competing truths in pursuit of collective safety and liberation.

Peter is a contributing opinion writer to The New York Times, the Editor-at-Large of Jewish Currents, an MSNBC Contributor, and a journalism and political science professor at CUNY. He also writes The Beinart Notebook on Substack.