My appearance on C-SPAN's Washington Journal

Last Sunday, I was invited to C-SPAN’s studios in Washington, D.C. to appear on the Sunday morning edition of Washington Journal.

Americans will likely be familiar with C-SPAN and its origins. For international readers, C-SPAN is an American television network created as a non-profit in 1979, and which began by airing unedited coverage of the U.S. Congress. Over the years it has expanded to include a wide range of programming on public policy, politics and history, as well as radio, podcasts and online content.

Today, C-SPAN remains unique among American TV stations: a non-partisan cable news outlet funded as a public service from cable and satellite TV providers. It receives no financial assistance from the federal government or from taxpayers. C-SPAN is a gem, in my humble opinion, worthy of our collective support.

I was grateful, then, when the producers invited me on air. They had read my column on the October 7 terrorist attacks in Israel, and thought it might make for an interesting conversation to put the Israel-Hamas conflict into a historical perspective.

The episode is now online, and so I thought I’d use this week’s newsletter to share it with you ⬇️

Screenshot from C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, November 5, 2023. You can now watch the entire 35-minute segment online.

The host, Kimberly Adams, asked great questions, and we covered a wide range of subjects.

We also took calls from viewers live on the air, answering their questions as best as I could.

Here’s the official description from the C-SPAN website:

Public historian & author Jason Steinhauer discusses the historical roots of the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

I hope you’ll watch / listen, and I hope you’ll let me know your thoughts.

Speak to you next week,

-JS

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