Author: Ben Lorber

• To Peter Beinart: We pro-BDS Jews Are Just as Much Part of the Jewish People as You Are

  (first published on Haaretz) The stories of Jewish students who support the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) of Israel until it ends its violations of Palestinian rights are often painful…

  

• Yes, Pro-BDS Jews are Part of Jewish Communities Too

  (first published at Jewschool) As a pro-BDS Jewish millennial, I was sad and angry last week when I learned that the Bernie Sanders campaign had suspended Simone Zimmerman, J Street…

  

• In Max Blumenthal’s ‘The 51 Day War’, Life in Gaza Looks Bleak, But Resistance Is Growing

  (originally published at In these Times) When American journalist Max Blumenthal arrived in the Gaza Strip on August 14, 2014, it was the 38th day of Israel’s bombardment of the…

  

• Illinois Bill Would Ban State Pension Funds from Divesting from Israel

  (originally published at In These Times)   As Illinois public workers struggle to protect their underfunded pensions from seizure by Governor Rauner and austerity-minded politicians across the political spectrum, Springfield…

  

• Creating Sanctuary: Faith-Based Activism for Migrant Justice

  originally published in Tikkun magazine   No More Deaths/Kate Morgan-Olsen Migrants crossing the Southern Arizona desert can die of dehydration if they do not stumble across provisions such as these…

• JFREJ Versus Stop-And-Frisk: Turning Jewish Radicals Into Radical Jews

  Published in the Summer 2013 issue of Jewish Currents On a Monday evening in early March, about forty Jews of various ages, gender identifications, sexual orientations, and shades of leftism…

• Looking Back At New Jewish Agenda: An Interview with Ezra Berkley Nepon

  From an article published by Jewish Currents Ezra Berkley Nepon’s book, Justice, Justice Shall You Pursue: A History of New Jewish Agenda, published in May by Thread Makes Blanket Press, is the…

• The Army and the People are NOT One Hand: Neoliberal Hegemony and the Armed Forces in the Arab Spring

  (paper delivered at DePaul University’s ‘Revolution: Past and Present’ conference, March 31, 2012) In 1982, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sent England’s national military overseas to wrest from Argentina ownership over…

• Remembrance

  (poem [my first- forgive me if it’s terrible] published in the Journal of Interdimensional Poetry, a poetry journal affiliated with the ‘Psychedemia’ conference held at the University of Pennsylvania, September 2012.)…