WATCH: Hagel And The "Jewish Lobby"
Yesterday, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Jamie Kirchick and I sat down for an hour to talk about Chuck Hagel's nomination by Barack Obama to serve as Defense Secretary. The whole conversation is worth checking out—we hit on topics ranging from why Obama picked Hagel, the gay-equality opposition to his nomination, and even made predictions about how we thought the confirmation process would shake out. Below you can watch a clip of our exchange that deals over Hagel's controversial remarks that Washington's "Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people" on Capitol Hill. Other commentators from the right (which does not include Kirchick) have used the comment to tar Hagel as an anti-Semite.
The clip is below the fold:
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Peter Beinart
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, The Crisis of Zionism, was published by Times Books in April 2012.
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