{"podcast":{"title":"The Beinart Notebook","slug":"the-beinart-notebook-6931258","podcast_index_feed_id":6931258,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/105260.rss","website_url":"https://peterbeinart.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/105260/5bb067e643b18b628b5269161122b703.jpg","author":"Peter Beinart","episode_count":256,"summary":"A conversation about American foreign policy, Palestinian freedom and the Jewish people.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-04T18:20:57.703747+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beinart-notebook-6931258"},"episode":{"title":"A Glimpse into The Horror in Gaza","slug":"a-glimpse-into-the-horror-in-gaza","published_at":"2026-06-01T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beinart-notebook-6931258/a-glimpse-into-the-horror-in-gaza","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beinart-notebook-6931258","url":"https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/a-tiny-window-into-the-horror-in","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/200071669/d44e0303d2c22637fd02b373254f6dbe.mp3","summary":"This week’s Zoom call will be at a special time: Thursday at 1 PM . Our guest will be Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories and author of the new book, When the World Sleeps: Stories, Words and Wounds of Palestine . She has been sanctioned by the Trump administration, which has barred her from entering the United States and frozen her assets in the country. We’ll talk about her new book, her investigations into Israeli actions in Gaza and the West Bank, her views of US, European, and United Nations policy toward Israel, and about the criticisms of her. We’ll also talk about what it’s like to live under US sanctions. Cited in Today’s Video Muhammad Shehada’s comments about life in Gaza, in conversation with Jehad Abusalim and Adam Shatz for the London Review of Books podcast. The Israeli human rights group Gisha on Israel’s restrictions on the import of toilets—and other essential civilian goods—into Gaza. The World Health Organization on the surge of “ectoparasite infections and rodent-borne illnesses” in Gaza. Things to Read (Maybe this should be obvious, but I link to articles and videos I find provocative and significant, not necessarily ones I entirely agree with.) In Jewish Currents ( subscribe !), Will Alden profiles Curt Mills, one of the intellectual architects of the anti-Israel right. See you on Thursday , Peter VIDEO TRANSCRIPT: So, there are a lot of Jews—I know some of them well myself—who are kind of both bewildered and enraged by this turn in American public opinion and in American politics against Israel, as reflected in my own city, New York, for instance, and the fact that Mayor Zohran Mamdani is the first mayor in many years not to march in the Israel Day parade, or that there’s this effort…","meta_description":"This week’s Zoom call will be at a special time: Thursday at 1 PM . Our guest will be Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occ…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":564,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-beinart-notebook-6931258/episodes/a-glimpse-into-the-horror-in-gaza/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beinart-notebook-6931258/a-glimpse-into-the-horror-in-gaza.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}