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The Right is Shocked by Anti-ICE Organizing | Religion Dispatches
Read my latest at Religion Dispatches. “Over the weekend, a far-right journalist tweeted out screenshots from a public, unvetted ICE Watch Signal group in Minneapolis, which quickly went viral on the online Right. As thousands took to the streets in Minneapolis and around the country to protest the ICE assault on communities and the brutal murders of…
The Nation | Tucker Carlson Platforms Another Groyper—Only This One Is Running for Florida Governor
Tucker Carlson platformed another groyper—only this one is running for Florida governor. Check out my latest piece at The Nation on James Fishback, whose upstart campaign defends groypers as “insanely smart & patriotic” & blends white Christian nationalism, Israel skepticism & pseudo-populist economic appeals. Not too long ago, the slightest hint of association with the groypers could…
Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening
Over at Religion Dispatches, I reported on Elon Musk’s latest foray into white nationalist ideology— perhaps the most unvarnished, blood-curdling of them all. I must confess that even I have felt burnt out, for quite some time now, reporting on the steady march of white nationalist ideology into the mainstream of the conservative movement. When I began in…
Yoram Hazony is surprised by blatant antisemitism in the MAGA coalition — but antisemitism is second nature for nationalists | Religion Dispatches
Last week Yoram Hazony, far-right Israeli theorist & leader of National Conservatism, said in an interview with NYT columnist Ross Douthat that he was surprised by antisemitism in MAGA. For Religion Dispatches, I break down why he missed what the rest of us obviously saw coming. In 2022 & 2024 I went to Hazony’s NatCon…
Nick Fuentes Has Officially Breached the MAGA Gates | The Nation
For The Nation, I wrote about Nick Fuentes’ half-decade march into the conservative mainstream, and how the right’s crisis over US support for Israel has provided the white nationalist with the opening he needs to be welcomed into the MAGA fold. Read it here. “Of course, in many ways it’s surprising that Fuentes’s red-carpet welcome…
Antisemitism exposed in the ranks of the right — the GOP-Israeli honeymoon is over | The Hill
For The Hill, I wrote about rising antisemitism and support for Nick Fuentes within the conservative movement. With MAGA influencers like Tucker Carlson and groups like the Heritage Foundation ushering Fuentes and his ideas into the tent, pro-Israel groups on the Right are facing a brutal awakening. “In hindsight, the obsessive focus on uncovering and…
What Antisemitism Is, What it Isn’t, and Why it Matters | Convergence Magazine
For Convergence Magazine, I wrote a 2-part series to help progressives understand and counter antisemitism and its weaponization. Part 1 “Antisemitism has always been deeply interwoven with other types of social domination. It is both a form of bigotry and scapegoating against Jews, and a conspiracy theory that today is stitched into the fabric of…
Israel’s iron grip on the American right is slipping away | +972 Magazine
For +972mag, I wrote on the growing criticism of Israel animating the MAGA movement, especially Gen Z, where it comes interlaced with America First antisemitism and ultra-nationalism. “Generational shift, isolationism, and nationalist anger are breaking the GOP’s pro-Israel consensus. But the left must remain wary of their motives.” Read more here.
Media Fail to Note Christian Zionist Operative Who Organized Congressional Visit to West Bank | Religion Dispatches
My latest at Religion Dispatches. GOP leader Mike Johnson visited the West Bank yesterday & proclaimed support for Israeli annexation. But few noticed the Christian Zionist operative who has quietly arranged trips like this for decades, driven by Biblical prophecy. Heather Johnston runs the US Israel Education Association from her home in Arkansas. USIEA arranges…
Progressives Have No Business Celebrating MAGA’s Epstein Revolt | New Lines
Over at New Lines Magazine, I wrote about the antisemitic conspiracy theories that are central to the far right’s obsession with sex-trafficking billionaire Jeffrey Epstein and his links to the global elite.
The Group Forging a “Judeo-Christian” Zionism for the New MAGA Age | Jewish Currents
Israel365 has dedicated itself to advancing the Israeli far-right’s cause with the American evangelical public. Thanks to this outreach, Israel365 has become an established face of biblical hasbara for US Christians.
This steady drumbeat of faith-based diplomacy has built crucial connective tissue between Israeli settler leaders and MAGA movers and shakers.
Once Again the ADL Antisemitism Audit Overreaches | Religion Dispatches
“This week, the ADL released its annual audit of antisemitic incidents. Predictably, the organization repeated its familiar mantra that the Palestine solidarity movement was the chief culprit behind a precipitous, record-shattering rise in antisemitic incidents in 2024. This year’s audit takes the absurdity to new heights, listing Jewish Voice for Peace as a perpetrator behind…
The New Face of Christian Zionism | In These Times
Over at In These Times, my colleague Fred Clarkson and I take an in-depth look at the End Times warriors at the cutting edge of Christian Zionism– the New Apostolic Reformation, the most important Christian supremacist movement of the 21st century. “The far-flung networks of independent Pentecostal and charismatic churches and other institutions that comprise…
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