Required reading to understand the groypers

PRA’s @benlorber8.bsky.social writes in @thenation.com, “In just a week, Carlson has introduced the groyper leader’s ideas to an immeasurably wider audience.” Learn more about how fractures on the Right are opening space for White nationalist Nick Fuentes to gain influence within MAGA:

It was great to talk with friends at @jewishcurrents.bsky.social on Nick Fuentes & rising anti-Zionism on the Right. Why is the Right fracturing over Israel right now? What do we do when they weave in unmistakable antisemitism, with real critique of Israel's genocide & repression of speech?

On the new episode of On the Nose, Arielle Angel, Daniel May, Andrew Marantz, & @benlorber8.bsky.social discuss Nick Fuentes on Tucker Carlson, Norman Finkelstein on Candace Owens, and the newfound influence of the anti-Israel right. jewishcurrents.org/confronting-...

There’s a deep irony that for the last few years the Jewish Right has joined in MAGA’s pile-on against DEI, by accusing DEI of antisemitism. And now, when they’re asking MAGA to confront the antisemitism in its own ranks, they’re met with refusal & being accused of doing DEI

The ADL is terrified that the Mamdani administration will continue to demonstrate that a genuine, tangible commitment to the well-being of Jews in America can coexist alongside staunch opposition to the policies of a country on the other side of the planet. It hurts their bottom line

In one and the same breath Zohran’s speech welded the loftiest visionary promises of a New Era to the most concrete & tangible aspirations for affordable housing, transportation, childcare. That is the way

Debs and Nehru…✊

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It took the ADL like four days to respond to Nick Fuentes breaking into the mainstream last week

Nick Fuentes, the white nationalist who has long lurked at the outer edges of the MAGAsphere, took a giant step toward the center last week.

This is a very informative #longread by @benlorber8.bsky.social at @thenation.com, covering the rise of Nick Fuentes. If, like me, the different far right sects in the US are a bit of a mystery to you, you’ll learn a lot. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

New at @thenation.com I trace Nick Fuentes' half-decade campaign to push the MAGA envelope, dragging the conservative movement kicking and streaming closer towards outright neo-fascism www.thenation.com/article/poli...

“In hindsight, the obsessive focus on uncovering and rooting out a supposed crisis of antisemitism on the left will prove to have been a drastic and myopic miscalculation.”

I don’t see how MAGA stabilizes in the short term. From the day Trump walked down the escalator in 2015 it has defined itself alongside this uneasy neocon/paleocon fault line. Now that coalition is over. Each side will fight to the death against the other. These contradictions

As I predicted in @thehill on Friday, the Project Esther coalition is crumbling. This morning a prominent Jewish lawfare advocate resigned from Heritage Foundation’s ‘fighting antisemitism’ task force in the wake of the Kevin Roberts/Tucker Carlson/Nick Fuentes fiasco

“These future leaders of the right aren’t going anywhere; they’ll be taking the reins soon, and there’s little room for the ‘Judeo’ in their vision of the Christian West.” My latest in @thehill.com thehill.com/opinion/whit...

There has been some predictable backlash against Roberts’ video from some Heritage staffers & establishment conservative voices. But calling victory is way premature. One crucial segment is conspicuously absent from the pile-on and everyone knows it- young conservatives

For @thehill.com I wrote about how the admission of Nick Fuentes into the MAGA big-tent this week shows that the Right's 'fighting antisemitism' crusade has always been cynical and hollow. All along it was only about going after their progressive opponents, thehill.com/opinion/whit...

The most antisemitic part of the Heritage Foundation statement isn't the claim that pro-Israel pressure comes from the "globalist class"-- it's that "loyalty" to "Christ first and to America always" comes before support for Israel. Setting Christian fidelity over & against

Another wrinkle-- Nick Fuentes and Kevin Roberts are both traditionalist Catholics, and while Tucker Carlson is Protestant he has repeatedly praised Catholic teaching, leading to speculation. It's much easier for all three to dismiss Christian Zionism, an evangelical creature, on

In case anyone is looking for a better strategy for fighting antisemitism than partnering with the Heritage Foundation

Forget Monday's two-hour Tucker Carlson interview with Nick Fuentes-- this 2.5 minute video from the head of the Heritage Foundation just completely shattered the right-wing pro-Israel consensus. The leading MAGA organization welcomed antisemitism into the movement with open arms

The leader of the Heritage Foundation just took a huge step back from pro-Israel orthodoxy and welcomed Nick Fuentes into the tent. The cracks on the surface we've seen since October 7 were just the beginning- the Right's Zionist consensus just shattered

Why did this take so long, with still no word from Jonathan Greenblatt? Wouldn’t be surprised if there was internal opposition to further inflaming ADL’s critics across the antisemitic Right, who now have the upper hand. Cowardice and utter abrogation of their mission, in other words

Hey reporters 👋 I’ve been monitoring Nick Fuentes & the groypers since 2019. Please feel free to reach out if you’re writing about his appearance on Tucker Carlson. I’ve helped dozens of reporters contextualize Nick & his movement over the years.

So the head of the ADL has spoken out today after America’s most influential & open MAGA antisemite was given a career-changing friendly interview last night on the biggest MAGA show in the country, right? Right??

In less than 24 hours Tucker’s interview with Nick Fuentes is at almost 10 million views on X. Most Carlson interviews get ~3 million total if they’re lucky; Fuentes is on track to easily eclipse top interviews w/Sam Altman, the president of Iran & Ted Cruz (12, 27 & 40 million total)

As I guessed last week, Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes dropped tonight. After 5+ years of pushing the Overton window Fuentes is no longer untouchable- he’s in the mainstream, on the biggest MAGA platform. Open, unabashed Hitlerism is no longer too far for today’s conservative movement

tfw you 'defend Israel' so hard that your entire worldview becomes indelibly structured by the antisemitic association between jews, wealth and power

I’m on NPR’s @onthemedia.bsky.social this weekend talking with @micahloewinger.bsky.social about Nick Fuentes, the prominent Gen Z white Christian nationalist, and his latest bid for influence/ www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

I went deep on Nick Fuentes and the groyperification of the GOP with @benlorber8.bsky.social. Listen!

Show's up! - @andykroll.bsky.social on Russell Vought, Trump's "Darth Vader." - @benlorber8.bsky.social on Nick Fuentes’ plan to lead MAGA down an increasingly white nationalist path. - Gregorio Olivares Gutierrez on student journalists standing up to their administrators. lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

For @convergencemag.com I wrote a two-part guide for progressives on how to understand antisemitism and its weaponization, and how to fight it with solidarity Part 1 breaks down how antisemitism is used as a tool by the 1% and a fuel for White Christian supremacy -- yesterday and today

It’s very possible Nick Fuentes will appear on Tucker Carlson’s show next week— the largest MAGA platform outside the White House. Fuentes has been on many large shows in recent weeks, barreling towards the mainstream at “6 million miles an hour” as he told followers last night

PRA’s @benlorber8.bsky.social defines antisemitism and examines how it has been weaponized to disrupt social justice organizing, fuel White Christian nationalism, and support genocidal and authoritarian policies in this two-part series for @convergencemag.com: convergencemag.com/articles/wha...

Per the Trump playbook, Jews who do not adhere to fascist tendencies are categorized as "bad Jews" alongside the enemy "other." Investigating these Jewish orgs. also tracks the targeting of JVP featured prominently in the Heritage Foundation's Project Esther: lpeproject.org/blog/how-the...

any notion that circumcision & autism are linked is laughable. Now please excuse me while I go shake this very particular set of four plants in an extremely specific way next to this hut I build every year following a painstaking set of minute guidelines

JVP and IfNotNow are included in a list of only 9 progressive groups being investigated by the Trump admin, alongside major donors like Ford and Open Society Foundation and the amorphous 'antifa'/ www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

I’ve known Em since she was a powerhouse student organizer. Then and now she’s been on the front lines for Palestinian freedom and I hope she’s safe. Please join me in calling Em’s senators & reps & demanding her immediate release

Last year Rabbi Ammi Hirsch, pro-Israel mouthpiece & head of a storied Reform shul in Manhattan, called anti-Zionist Jews like myself 'emotionally damaged' in his Yom Kippur sermon. This Rosh Hashanah he railed against the mouthy, weak-kneed morally depraved “diaspora Jew”. Goebbels would be proud

It was good to be on the Jewish Currents podcast this week talking about the fallout from the murder of Charlie Kirk: MAGA’s authoritarian campaigns of repression; the strange & overzealous displays of mourning from Israeli leaders; & more

On the latest episode of On the Nose, Arielle Angel, @davidklion.bsky.social, @benlorber8.bsky.social, and Maya Rosen discuss reactions to Charlie Kirk’s assassination across the political spectrum, as well as the outsized response in Israel. jewishcurrents.org/charlie-kirk...

For Christian nationalists like MTG, anti-Zionism slides seamlessly into antisemitism. AIPAC & pro-Israel politics are critiqued not as political forces but as “another religion” intruding upon the “Christian patriotic” USA. For the Israel-skeptic Right this is the natural frame

Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social has been writing about groypers for some time. Their "early maneuvering could edge the groyper brand even further into the conservative big tent." politicalresearch.org/2022/01/05/w...

If you only have time for one article on the #groypers, you can't do better than this 2020 PRA feature from @benlorber8.bsky.social. politicalresearch.org/2021/01/15/a...

From the radical 'dissident Right' to mainstream MAGA operatives & White House staffers, major figures on the Right are thirsting for state repression & political retribution against Democrats & the Left after the horrific murder of Charlie Kirk

This episode of Lifting the Curtain takes a deep look into the role of antisemitism in the global far-right ecosystem, paying close attention to the U.S. and Germany. Tune in now to listen to the full conversation with @eladn.bsky.social and Dr. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum: ow.ly/zuLJ50WUOC0.

Was a great time joining @benlorber8.bsky.social for this podcast. My fav topic 🙃

I had a great conversation with @benlorber8.bsky.social about rising criticism of Israel among the American right. You can listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Will this ideological shift impact Gaza? Or is it all opportunistic? Listen to find out.