Peter Beinart

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<youtube align="right" size="tiny" caption="Peter Beinart speaks to a gathering of Jewish leaders about his NYRB article">svs7L-OUbks</youtube> Peter Beinart is the former editor of The New Republic. He was a leading cheerleader for the Iraq war, opening up the magazine's pages to pro-war neoconseratives. A liberal Zionist himself, he wrote a highly critical article about the American Jewish establishment in the New York Review of Books in 2010 arguing that its increasing shift to the right for both Jews and Israel.[1]

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  1. Peter Beinart, The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment, New York Review of Books, 10 June 2010
  2. Philip Weiss, Washington Post Columnist Gives Private AIPAC Talks on How to Help Israel in ‘08 Election, Mondoweiss.net, 12 March 2008