“Israel Cannot Be a Liberal Democracy”

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guests are two of the most sophisticated and fearless internal critics of Israeli politics and society: Mairav Zonszein , senior analyst for Israel at the International Crisis Group and a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times, and Raef Zreik , a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem. We discuss: Israel’s attempt to ban Palestinian candidates in the upcoming election The absence of a true left in Israel The attempt to bring West Bank apartheid to all of Israel How NAZA finally broke through the Israeli bubble Living post-10/7 as a Palestinian citizen of Israel