Author: Ben Lorber

• Tucker Carlson Platforms Another Groyper—Only This One Is Running for Florida Governor | The Nation

  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 &…

  

• 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…

  

• 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…

  

• 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…

  

• 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…

  

• 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…

  

• 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,…

  

• 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…

  

• 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…