Supremacy over Democracy: The Shame of the American Jewish Establishment

Occupied Thoughts · Aug 13, 2026 · 41m

In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor interviews FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart about Peter's recent Jewish Currents essay, "The Shame of the American Jewish Establishment," which offers a political and historical look at American Jewish institutions, known broadly as the American Jewish establishment. They discuss Peter's analysis of the trajectory of American Jewish institutions & their leadership, which in the mid-20th century saw American Jewish wellbeing as tied to the growth and expansion of American liberal democracy and thus supported civil rights, women's rights…