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Substack · August 27, 2026
A personal essay on the long shadow of the 1917 Balfour Declaration, and what its legacy of promises and dispossession still explains about the present moment.
On Christian Zionist leaders doubling down on apocalyptic End Times theology at their national conference, and the interfaith activists countering with a liberation-focused reading of scripture.
June 26, 2026
On how far-right Christian nationalist figures are exploiting declining American support for Israel to promote classical antisemitic tropes, rather than any substantive critique of Israeli policy.
Achrei Mot-Kedoshim: “G-d Is Inaccessible; Here Is the Law”
Substack · April 26, 2026
A d’var Torah on the Torah portion Achrei Mot-Kedoshim, on law, holiness, and what it means to seek the sacred when the divine feels distant.
I’m Working on a New Book About Christian Zionism
Substack · April 19, 2026
An update on Kingdom Now, Ben’s forthcoming book tracing Christian Zionism from the Puritans to MAGA.
“We’re All in This Together” | Political Research Associates
March 31, 2026
Co-written with Ethan Fauré, Steven Gardiner and Annie Wilkinson, on how Minneapolis residents organized to resist federal immigration enforcement, and what their mutual aid and solidarity networks teach about countering authoritarianism.
Substack · March 3, 2026
A Purim-season essay on Mordecai, fear, and the uses and misuses of Jewish power.
All Eyes on Minneapolis: Lessons on Resisting Authoritarianism | Political Research Associates
February 3, 2026
Co-written with PRA colleagues, on ICE’s enforcement operations in Minneapolis and the grassroots strategies residents used to resist them.
The Right is Shocked by Anti-ICE Organizing | Religion Dispatches
January 26, 2026
On the far right’s stunned reaction to a leaked Minneapolis ICE Watch chat, and the long, envious history of conservatives insisting the left is “infinitely more organized” than they are.
The Nation | Tucker Carlson Platforms Another Groyper—Only This One Is Running for Florida Governor
January 13, 2026
On James Fishback, the groyper-friendly Florida governor candidate whose blend of white Christian nationalism, Israel-skepticism and populist economics shows how far Nick Fuentes has already moved the GOP mainstream.
On Elon Musk’s unvarnished embrace of white nationalist rhetoric, and how seven years of dog-whistles about “importing voters” and “globalists” collapsed into open talk of Jewish “elites” engineering white replacement.
Hinges on the Jewish Anti-Zionist Left
Substack · December 21, 2025
On where the Jewish anti-Zionist left stands today, and what its internal debates hinge on.
Tucker Carlson and the Lure of Selective Empathy
Substack · December 11, 2025
On Tucker Carlson’s selective invocations of empathy, and what they reveal about the far right’s approach to antisemitism and other bigotries.
Substack · December 9, 2025
On a record-breaking Christian Zionist delegation to Israel, and the apocalyptic framing organizers used to describe its purpose.
Substack · December 4, 2025
On Ambassador Mike Huckabee’s appearance at a Christian conference organized around converting Jews and hastening the End Times.
The Zionist Right Has a MAGA Problem | Jewish Currents
November 26, 2025
Co-written with Jess Schwalb, on a conference meant to confront antisemitism on the right that instead offered a portrait of an old guard left twisting in the wind.
GOP Israel-Skeptics Are Already Flooding the Florida Midterms, with Youth Support
Substack · November 24, 2025
On the rising cohort of young, Israel-skeptical Republicans shaping Florida’s midterm races.
November 21, 2025
On Yoram Hazony’s feigned surprise at MAGA antisemitism, and how the pro-Israel right’s own scapegoating of Soros and liberal Jews helped set the fire now consuming their movement.
Combating Rightwing Antisemitism with…Rightwing Antisemitism
Substack · November 18, 2025
On the contradictions of a conservative movement that claims to fight antisemitism while embracing antisemitic tropes of its own.
Nick Fuentes Has Officially Breached the MAGA Gates | The Nation
November 4, 2025
On Nick Fuentes’s decade-long metapolitical climb into the MAGA mainstream, and why the American right’s crisis over Israel finally gave him the opening he needed.
On how the young leaders rising through the ranks of the right have little room for the “Judeo” in their vision of a Christian West, and why the conservative movement’s professed fight against antisemitism has always been selective.
Antisemitism Exposed in the Ranks of the Right — The GOP-Israeli Honeymoon is Over | The Hill
October 31, 2025
On how MAGA’s embrace of Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson’s normalizing of him is forcing pro-Israel Jewish conservatives to reckon with a threat they helped enable.
A two-part primer for progressives on understanding antisemitism as both real bigotry and a weaponized conspiracy theory, and on fighting it without losing sight of collective liberation.
On the generational, isolationist and nationalist forces cracking the GOP’s once-ironclad support for Israel, and why the left should stay wary of the motives driving that shift.
August 5, 2025
On Heather Johnston, the little-known Christian Zionist operative who has quietly arranged Biblical-prophecy-driven Congressional trips to the West Bank for decades, including Mike Johnson’s latest one.
On the antisemitic conspiracy theories fueling MAGA’s obsession with Jeffrey Epstein, and why progressives shouldn’t mistake that revolt for anything resembling solidarity.
On Israel365, the media and publishing operation that has spent over a decade building the connective tissue between Israeli settler leaders and MAGA power players like Steve Bannon and Paula White-Cain.
On the ADL’s latest antisemitism audit, which somehow counts Jewish Voice for Peace as a bigger perpetrator of antisemitism than an actual white nationalist hate group.
The New Face of Christian Zionism | In These Times
March 31, 2025
Co-written with Fred Clarkson, on the New Apostolic Reformation’s rise to the top of Trump’s second term and its pivotal role in the U.S.-Israel relationship’s dangerous new phase.
Remarks at Law and Antisemitism Conference | UCLA School of Law
Substack · March 26, 2025
Remarks delivered at a UCLA School of Law conference on antisemitism, law, and the politics of definition.
Why Did Trump Just Tell Reporters that Chuck Schumer ‘Is Not Jewish Anymore’? | Religion Dispatches
Substack · March 13, 2025
On Trump’s claim that Chuck Schumer ‘is not Jewish anymore,’ and what it reveals about the right’s conditional embrace of Jewish identity.
Substack · February 25, 2025
A review of a new translation of the Yiddish novel “Our Comrade, Avreml Broide,” and what it offers for reclaiming Jewishness as a marker of difference rather than power.
Substack · February 7, 2025
On Trump’s executive order to ‘combat antisemitism,’ and how it weaponizes Jewish safety to target Palestine solidarity activism on campuses and beyond.