Author: Ben Lorber

• 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…

  

• 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,…

  

• 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…

  

• Remarks at Law and Antisemitism Conference | UCLA School of Law

  The campus antisemitism moral panic which has gripped U.S. political discourse since October 7 serves to distract not only from Israel’s war in Gaza, but from the steady rise of…

  

• Conservatives claim to be fighting antisemitism. Don’t believe them | The Hill

  My latest at The Hill on Project Esther, Christian nationalism and the weaponization of antisemitism. ““Shalom, Mahmoud,” the Trump White House declared last week on social media, celebrating the arrest of…

  

• Why did Trump just tell reporters that Chuck Schumer ‘is not Jewish anymore’? | Religion Dispatches

  “I’ve always been fascinated by Trump’s attempts to disparage Chuck Schumer by calling him a Palestinian. The term of course, shouldn’t be a slur—Palestinians are a people like any other.…

  

• Reclaiming Jewishness as Alterity: A Review of the New Translation of “Our Comrade, Avreml Broide” | Jewschool

  “In Your Comrade, Avreml Broide: A Worker’s Life Story (Wayne State University Press, November 2024), translator Annie Sommer Kaufman offers a fresh and vital glimpse into the vibrant lifeworld of early-20th-century American…

  

• Parshat Yitro 2/15/25

  Yitro, Moses and the elders, James Tissot (a dvar given at my local havurah on Shabbos morning) So the big news in this week’s parsha is that the Israelites receive…

  

• Trump’s EO to ‘Combat Antisemitism’ Wields Jewish Safety as a Weapon to Crush Palestine Solidarity | Religion Dispatches

  “Last week, Trump released an executive order pledging to combat antisemitism by ordering a draconian crackdown on Palestine solidarity protests. That same day, reporters leaked a memo from an agency…