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Editor-at-Large, Jewish Currents. Author, "Beinart Notebook" on Substack. CNN Contributor. Prof, Newmark School of Journalism, CUNY. Tweets=my views, not CUNY's

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    1 Nov 2020

    I've started a newsletter on Substack. Please subscribe

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    22 hours ago

    One of the most frustrating aspects of the lies being spread about critical race theory was the defaming of Derrick Bell, a founder of the field who risked his life fighting segregation in Mississippi. I wrote about his life, his work & his legacy here:

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    21 hours ago

    .: The US responded so destructively after 9/11 because, in the decade or so before 9/11—between roughly 1989 and 2001—the American foreign policy elite lost its fear of war.

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    19 hours ago

    Both Israel and the USA “exalt Jesus as Lord.” Makes perfect sense.

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    There are two nations in this world that were made to glorify God almighty: Israel and the United States of America. I don't care what it looks like right now, the United States of America and the people here will glorify God. We will exalt Jesus as Lord. Glory to God.
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    23 hours ago

    gets at a very-underappreciated point: "The US responded so destructively because, in the decade or so before 9/11—between roughly 1989 and 2001—the American foreign policy elite lost its fear of war."

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    22 hours ago

    is proud to co-sponsor several events this year, including professor & Holocaust historian Jan Grabowski, and Associate Professor & CNN political commentator .

    Senator Tammy Duckworth, former Ohio Governor John Kasich, Somerville Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, and NBA assistant coach Sonia Raman, a Tufts alumna, are among those scheduled to speak as part of the Solomont Speaker Series at this fall.
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    Why did America respond so disastrously to 9/11? Because in the decade preceding 9/11, American elites fell in love with war

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    Sep 12

    "The crisis in Lebanon is so grave the World Bank believes it may rank as one of the top three economic calamities to strike any nation for the past 170 years, beaten only by Chile’s Great Depression in the 1920s & the onset of civil war in Spain, 1930s."

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    Sep 12

    This is huge.

    SCOOP: Biden has told Schumer & Pelosi that he's prepared to pressure moderate Dems to change the filibuster in order to pass a new voting-rights law. “Chuck, you tell me when you need me to start making phone calls,” Biden said, per a source. Read:
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    Sep 12

    With just 62% of Americans having received at least one vaccine shot, the United States has now fallen to last place among the G7 wealthiest democracies.

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    Sep 12

    “There seems to be a hysteria that began about a year and half ago to try and convince Americans that we’re undergoing another crime wave. At a certain point, we just wanted to look at what the actual data was. And it doesn’t bear up.”

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    Sep 11

    Yesterday, we convened leading experts from government, academia, and media to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and discuss that America launched in response. Feat. , , , & more. Watch a recording here:

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    Sep 10

    . Bruce Riedel, former Special Assistant to President George W. Bush when 9/11 attack occured, breaks news at our Sadat Forum: On September 14, just 3 days after 9/11 attack, President Bush told a stunned British PM Tony Blair: "We are also going to attack Iraq."

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    Sep 10

    The fourth and last installment in our Today’s WorldView 9/11 series | The world 9/11 created: The waning of the American superpower

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    Sep 10

    . rightly concerned that as we exit Afghanistan and downgrade “GWOT” we move toward new Cold War eith China-/ The 9/11 Wars: Looking Back, Moving Forward | The Quincy Institute via

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    Sep 10

    LIVE: : Even in the Democratic party it seems very difficult in Washington to say "the greatest threats we have from China can be only dealt with by cooperation" - not force.

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    Sep 10

    panel : "It's harder to go from Wall Street into the administration, because of people like & But we haven't had the same pressure on people coming from the defense industry into government."

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    Excited to talk about Obama, Biden, the "war on terror" and the "blob" with at Noon ET today. Subscribe and join us

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    Sep 9

    How attuned are US officials to Pal domestic politics, you ask? At a moment when Abbas’ popularity is at all-time low & PA is facing unprecedented legitimacy crisis, the Biden admin wants him to abandon the one & only thing left of Abbas’s legacy that Palestinians still support.

    Senior officials in the Biden administration have privately pressed the Palestinian Authority, including Pres Abbas, to walk back Ramallah’s effort to have Israel tried for war crimes at the ICC, a Mideast diplomatic official told (1/4)
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    Sep 9

    This report about settlers attacking Palestinians on Shabbat shows how ethno-supremacy is replacing traditional religion in settler Judaism. For the sake of Jewish power, they desecrate the Torah's basic ethical and ritual laws, often simultaneously.

    That work was on my mind a few months ago, as I stood with friends inside a Palestinian family’s home in the village of Sarura, which settlers had set ablaze the previous Shabbat. Community members and activists had struggled to put out the flames while their belongings—furniture, a generator, water tanks, and the crops in the surrounding fields—went up in smoke; Israeli soldiers watched idly from nearby. As I joined efforts to repair the home, scrubbing the charred walls and carrying burnt debris outside, I wondered what the so-called religious settlers were thinking as they struck the matches that ignited this inferno, violating the Torah’s most detailed commandment pertaining to Shabbat: “You shall kindle no fire throughout your settlements on the sabbath day” (Exodus 35:3). I thought about the prophet Jeremiah, who warns the Jewish people that the punishment for not observing Shabbat will be destruction by unabated fire. But here, both the disregard for Shabbat observance and the r
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    Sep 9

    Since we're talking about bobby lee again, let's be clear about who the man was and what he did.

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