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Commentary

  • Nick Fuentes’s mastery of the online far-right has fractured the MAGA movement — quoted in Fast Company, 11/24/25
    • “You can’t tell the story of Fuentes’s rise without telling the story of alternative tech platforms and transformations of large tech platforms…Great Replacement ideology is now mainstream. Christian Nationalism is now mainstream, and antisemitism is rapidly becoming mainstream too.”
  • The Firewall Against Nick Fuentes Is Crumbling — quoted in The Atlantic, 10/31/25
    • The latest sit-down with Tucker Carlson represents “the crumbling of the last kind of firewall on the right against Nick Fuentes…he’s a barometer and a whisperer of real segments of the MAGA base that people like Tucker can’t ignore.”
  • Palestinian Christians Have a Warning for the American Church — quoted in Sojourners, 9/16/25
  • For Betar or Worse, quoted in The Baffler, 8/26/25
    • “Groups like Canary Mission muddy the waters…The political demands that are motivating the push for freedom for Palestine—these aren’t antisemitic…[Trump] sees no problem with dining with Nick Fuentes who regularly employs antisemitic rhetoric.”
  • Inside the New Group Giving Antisemitism Trainings at Harvard — quoted in Jewish Currents, 7/2/25
    • “At this moment, [universities] are facing an energized faculty and student protest movement in solidarity with Palestinians while they’re facing massive authoritarian pressure from the Trump administration and the pro-Israel movement…“Ultimately, the authoritarian regime won’t be satisfied by mere antisemitism trainings. They’re going to increasingly demand the liquidation of student groups, the dismantling of entire departments, the firing of professors. That’s where we’re headed.”
  • GOP leaders slammed Tarrant chair over post, but some embraced this hater — quoted in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6/30/25
    • “It’s almost like Israel exists as a magical totem [for Christian Zionists],” said Lorber, the co-author of “Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism. “You’re really not actually allying with Jews as human beings,” but instead, treating claims that Israel represents Jewish interests as a “magical fetish object.”
  • Antisemitism is on the rise, but there’s no consensus on how to define it in Pa. — or in D.C. — quoted in Philadelphia Enquirer, 4/30/25
    • “I went through 9,000 points of [the ADL’s antisemitism] data,” said Ben Lorber, a senior analyst at Political Research Associates. Many incidents they call antisemitism are mischaracterized. “The methodology is flawed.”
  • Jewish Organizations Are Fighting Back Against Khalil Deportation — quoted in Truthout, 4/13/25
  • MAGA, Mahmoud Khalil, and the War for Free Speech on Campus — podcast appearance, Inkstick Media, 3/31/25
  • Christian Zionism is on the March — quoted in Jacobin, 3/27/25
    • “Most presentations of Christian Zionism tend to caricature their theological beliefs as outlandish and fantastical, making it easier for some to dismiss the movement as fringe and not worth taking seriously. More broadly, the movement left is still figuring out how to understand and oppose Christian nationalism, of which Christian Zionism is the foreign policy expression.”
  • What Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Says About White Christian Nationalism and The Politics of Repression — quoted in Religion Dispatches, 3/24/25
    • The weaponization of “antisemitism,” according to Ben Lorber, allows “Christian nationalists [to] cynically position themselves as defenders of Jews while pursuing policies inimical to the safety and thriving of Jewish communities, along with our friends and neighbors.”
  • Elon Musk’s Jewish Problem — quoted in The Forward, 2/20/25
  • Jewish people must retain agency over their story, identities and narratives — quoted in Southern Poverty Law Center, 2/20/25
  • KPFA Evening News, interviewed 8/24/24
  • WBAI, interviewed 8/21/24
  • Christian Zionism 101 — interviewed Institute for Public Accuracy, 8/19/24
  • Far-right influencers turn against Trump campaign — quoted in Washington Post, 8/18/24
  • Evangelical Christians Are Throwing Their Support Behind Israel. They’re Partly Driven By Antisemitism — quoted in HuffPost, 6/30/24
  • Far Right Uses Antisemitism George Soros Trope to Attack Campus Protests — quoted in Southern Poverty Law Center, 5/16/24
  • Anti-Defamation League staff decry ‘dishonest’ campaign against Israel critics — quoted in The Guardian, 5/5/24
  • Trump, Netanyahu & the Weaponizing of Fear After October 7 — interviewed on Laura Flanders & Friends, PBS, 4/5/24
  • Right-Wing Influencers Are Fighting Over What It Means to Be White — quoted in The New Republic, 4/3/24
  • Controversial Pastor John Hagee Speaks at March for Israel in Washington — quoted in The Daily Beast, 11/14/23
  • Mike Johnson Is Not Your Run-of-the-Mill Christian Zionist — quoted in The New Republic, 11/8/23
  • For Many Christian Zionists, Israeli Protesters are a Threat to God’s Plan — quoted in Religion Dispatches, 4/4/23
  • Turning Point USA Has a Groyper Problem — quoted in Right Wing Watch, 3/22/23
  • Kanye is Now a White Nationalist Meme to Recruit College Kids — quoted in Vice, 1/31/23
  • Overt U.S. antisemitism returns with Trump, Kanye West — quoted in Washington Post, 10/27/22
  • Christian Nationalists Training Political Soldiers for the Long Haul — quoted in Daily Kos, 8/7/22
  • A Crumbling Wall of Separation — The State of Belief, Interfaith Alliance podcast, 5/14/22
  • Ben Lorber on GOP-Led Crossover with White Nationalists — It’s Going Down podcast, 3/25/22
  • The Terrifying Alliance Between End Times Christian Zionists and Donald Trump — quoted in In These Times, 10/5/20

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