I appreciated this conversation between Ahmed Moor and Peter Beinart over Beinart’s decision to speak at Tel Aviv University, in violation of BDS, and then, in the face of a lot of public and private criticism, including from people who are close to Beinart, his very public reconsideration and apology for having done so—and then the backlash to his apology. That backlash to his apology is coming from two different sides, from people who are anti-Zionist, who claim that Beinart is just doing damage control to preserve his brand, and people who are Zionist, who say he was forced to grovel before a political inquisition of the left. I have to say that Beinart does an extremely good job of […]