{"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 Reply to Sam Harris","slug":"a-reply-to-sam-harris","published_at":"2026-06-08T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beinart-notebook-6931258/a-reply-to-sam-harris","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beinart-notebook-6931258","url":"https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/a-reply-to-sam-harris","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/201058639/8c5d06977596668ea7736bc2c112a786.mp3","summary":"This week’s Zoom call will be at our regular time: Friday at 1 PM. Our guest will be Munther Isaac , a Palestinian minister and theologian based in the West Bank. He gained international attention for his Christmas 2023 sermon, Christ in the Rubble . We’ll talk about Palestinian life in the West Bank, Munther’s critique of Christian Zionism, his views of Hamas and his interview with Tucker Carlson. Please join us. I also recorded a conversation with former US ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro, where we debated the reasons the Israeli-Palestinian “peace process” didn’t produce a Palestinian state, and whether a Jewish democracy is a contradiction in terms. We’ll send that conversation to subscribers this week as well. Cited in Today’s Video Sam Harris on why he won’t debate critics of Israel. B’Tselem on Military Order 101. Salam Fayyad’s exit interview with the New York Times . Neve Gordon on “human shields.” Yoav Gallant’s statement on October 9, 2023. 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 !), Josh Nathan-Kazis writes about how the Israel Day Parade backfired. In the New York Times , I argued that America will keep launching disastrous wars until the people who champion them are held to account. Nikole Hannah-Jones on the end of the civil rights era. Israel’s new strategy for changing global opinion. See you on Friday, Peter VIDEO TRANSCRIPT: So, there’s a guy named Sam Harris, been a pretty prominent political commentator in the U.S. for quite a few years. He really kind of specializes a lot in what he claims is the kind of thread of jihadism or Islamism to the West. And he’s also a supporter, a defender of the st…","meta_description":"This week’s Zoom call will be at our regular time: Friday at 1 PM. Our guest will be Munther Isaac , a Palestinian minister and theologian based in the We…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1077,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-beinart-notebook-6931258/episodes/a-reply-to-sam-harris/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-reply-to-sam-harris.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}