An Expert Guide to Israel's 2026 Election - David Weinberg - Ep. 75 - Public Research with Daniel Schwartz
An Expert Guide to Israel's 2026 Election - David Weinberg - Ep. 75 - Public Research with Daniel Schwartz
David Weinberg, one of Israel's longest-tenured columnists at The Jerusalem Post and a senior fellow at the Misgav Institute, joins Public Research for a granular tour of the ten-plus-party free-for-all that is Israel's upcoming election. From Haredi draft dodgers to Itamar Ben-Gvir's Jewish Power Party, Yair Golan's Democrats, Bezalel Smotrich, the Reservists Party, and beyond, we look at the candidates and parties competing for power.
From there, we confront some of the core questions hanging over Israel today: Did it win the Gaza war? Is it stronger than it was on October 6? Or did it fall into Sinwar's trap, with Netanyahu's slow and bloody three-year war in Gaza giving the global anti-Israel movement new life and prospects for success?
All that and more on today's episode of Public Research.
#Israel #IsraeliElection #Netanyahu #Bibi #Gaza #Hamas #Gaza
20 Oct 2026
Can Israel's Election Save The U.S. Alliance? - Yaakov Katz - Ep. 74 - Public Research
Can Israel's Election Save The U.S. Alliance - Yaakov Katz - Ep. 74 - Public Research with Daniel Schwartz
Days before Israelis vote in the first election since October 7, Yaakov Katz joins Public Research to discuss what the Gaza war achieved — and whether another Netanyahu victory could cost Israel its alliance with the United States.Yaakov Katz is the former editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post (2016–2023) and a senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute.
Before that he was the Post's military correspondent and a senior policy adviser to Naftali Bennett. His latest book, with Amir Bohbot, is "While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful Military in the Middle East."We discuss who really won the war; Hamas rearming and reestablishing itself in Gaza; the accusations of genocide; whether a two-state arrangement is still viable; the Israeli election; Smotrich, Ben-Gvir, and Feiglin; the threat of sanctions from the EU and America; and the future of the US-Israel alliance.#Israel #Gaza #Hamas #Iran #Netanyahu
14 Oct 2026
Are Jews Welcome in Abdul El Sayed's Democratic Party? - Rabbi Asher Lopatin - Ep. 73
Are Jews Welcome in Abdul El Sayed's Democratic Party? - Rabbi Asher Lopatin - Ep. 73 - Public Research with Daniel SchwartzOn October 3rd, 2026, the British Green Party voted to declare Zionism racism and passed a motion that effectively banned most British Jews from membership in the party. Here in America, forces that would like to do the same thing to the Democratic Party are ascendant as well.
In Michigan the Democrat's Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed campaigns with Hasan Piker who urges his fans to treat most jews like "rabid neo nazis" and to purge them from public life. Few races in 2026 have been watched more closely than the Michigan Senate race, where many Democrats are finding it difficult to get behind their party’s nominee, Abdul El-Sayed. El-Sayed calls the Gaza war an ongoing “genocide” and claims Israel “hands America its foreign policy.”
As a result of this some Democrats are finding hard to get behind El-Sayed such as Rabbi Asher Lopatin, a Modern Orthodox rabbi and Jewish communal leader in Michigan. We discuss El-Sayed, antisemitism, and the obsessive hatred a rising cohort of the American left has for Israel and American Jewish zionists.
#Israel #Zionism #Antisemitism #Michigan #Gaza #AIPAC #AbdulElSayed #HasanPiker #Senate #democrats
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