Author: Ben Lorber

• Meet the ‘Bronze Age Zionists’: Far-Right Jews Embracing Fascism in the Wake of 10/7 | Religion Dispatches

  “The US online hard-right isn’t exactly known as the friendliest place for Jews. It’s the place where antisemitic conspiracies thrive and cries of ‘Jews will not replace us’ resound. It’s…

• How Colleges Became Recruitment Hubs for the Gen-Z Right | The Nation

  “An anonymous post appeared in late September on Reddit’s ​“QAnonCasualties” forum, an online space designed to support those desperate to extricate loved ones from the all-consuming grip of conspiracy theories.…

• Toward a Sober Assessment of Campus Antisemitism

  “A post on an anonymous message board calls to “eliminate jewish living from cornell campus” [sic]. A viral video shows protesters outside the Cooper Union library, pressing Palestine solidarity signs…

• The ADL Is Making It Less Safe to Be a Progressive Jew

  “Every morning, when I open my laptop to start the workday, I look at Nazis. Sometimes I’m tracking young ​“suit-and-tie” white nationalists working to infiltrate conservative campus organizations and spread their worldview. Other…

• Advisory: ‘No Nazis on Our Streets!’

  “With Palestine solidarity protests ramping up in the U.S. and around the world in response to Israel’s large-scale, indiscriminate assault on Gaza following Hamas’s horrific massacre and kidnapping of Israeli…

• The Right is Deeply Divided Over Support for Israel-Though it’s Not About Justice for Palestinians

  “On October 7, the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, which included the horrific murder of hundreds of Israeli civilians. In response, Israel launched an unprecedented…

• ‘Sit Down and Be Quiet’- MAGA Attack on Jewish Republican Exposes Christian Nationalism’s Shaky Commitment to Pluralism

  “Max Miller isn’t the person you would expect to condemn Christian ‘bigotry’ on Twitter. A GOP House member from Ohio and an advisor to former President Trump, Miller has essentially…

• Conspiracy at the Core: Five Years After Tree of Life, Antisemitism Continues to Animate the MAGA Movement

  “On February 20, 2023, at a re-election campaign event in West Palm Beach, Florida, former President Trump was asked by a supporter how he planned to combat the “alarming rise…

• White House Antisemitism Report Includes Encouraging Diagnoses — But Leans on Destructive Strategies

  with Habiba Fahr. “Recently, the Biden administration released the U.S. National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism, an unprecedented report advancing a broad policy agenda to combat, as its name suggests, antisemitism. …