One hot take I keep close to my chest: Jewish Left anti-Zionism is in part an anti-antisemitism strategy. Far from being naive about antisemitism in the Middle East, we know that winning justice for Palestinians is an essential prerequisite to moving beyond it

Marty Peretz seems to have reached out to Jeffrey Epstein a few times over the years, often obsequiously seeking donations to YIVO, a Yiddish cultural institution, where Peretz served on the board (Epstein did donate)

Jeffrey Epstein relays to Ehud Barak a private question from Noam Chomsky— “how long and how far will Israel proceed on the course to self-destruction”

New bonus episode from the @praeyesright.bsky.social podcast, Inform Your Resistance. Last Friday I spoke with my colleagues about ICE’s crackdown in Minneapolis, & what we can learn from the resistance on the ground https://open.spotify.com/episode/4JJYn7biDDBawy3FLxmMu1?si=8ZAOJmUHTFS7JXrcZxNYTA

The former director of Project 2025 has positioned himself squarely in lockstep with the Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes wing of MAGA. A sign of the times

The former director of Project 2025 has positioned himself squarely in lockstep with the Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes wing of MAGA. A sign of the times

Last week I talked with Patrick over at Last Born in the Wilderness about antisemitism and anti-Zionism on the MAGA Right. He always approaches these conversations with clarity and care https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.com/p/the-groypers-ascendant-ben-lorber

It’s not so surprising that Epstein seems to have internalized & privately promoted many alt-right antisemitic ideas. Reactionaries of different stripes all see the world in basically the same way, as zero-sum competition between antagonistic racial/religious groups

Another top ADL antisemitism researcher is jumping ship & joining a much more credible organization, the @nexusproject.bsky.social https://www.jta.org/2026/01/29/united-states/senior-adl-antisemitism-researcher-leaves-to-lead-competing-effort-at-watchdog-nexus

“An immediate de-escalation on all sides”??? Imagine telling Jews to de-escalate during the Holocaust, or African Americans to de-escalate during Jim Crow. Every Jewish institution must look at itself and ask what they are doing to end fascism.

There were those who called the Nazi persecution of Jews “fatal encounters with law enforcement” while it was happening. Today we call them what they were— collaborators.

There were once plenty of regime loyalists who described the Nazi Gestapo’s targeting of Jews, Roma, dissidents, queer folks & more as so many ‘fatal encounters with law enforcement’. That’s how the head of the ADL just described the ICE murder of Renée Good & Alex Pretti

“Indeed, there’s always been a not-so-subtle thread of envy running through the history of conservatism.”

For the 1000th time, ‘solely because she was Jewish’ is incoherent. Nazism otherized Jews as part of a fascist state project. Drawing political lessons from the Shoah, & insisting upon its relevance today, is essential to understanding history & acting responsibly within it

Yesterday a far-right journalist tweeted out screenshots from a public, unvetted ICE Watch Signal group in Minneapolis. It’s gone viral on the online Right. While thousands took the streets, reactionary keyboard warriors stared wide-eyed and aghast at images from chats showing neighbors 1/

My latest is up on Religion Dispatches. religiondispatches.org/2026/01/19/t...

Fighting the neocons by (checks notes) regime changing Iran? (Donahue is likely among the more influential operatives behind MAGA’s America First wing, heading College Republicans of America, which claims hundreds of campus chapters nationwide)

Tucker Carlson put out another sketchy interview yesterday, this time with his brother Buckley, who shares his America First Israel-skepticism. Today Buckley shared an article from the Unz Review, a hardline white nationalist site. The article minces no words— ‘Jewish plutocracy’ is the enemy

Tucker Carlson platformed another groyper—only this one is running for Florida governor. My latest at @thenation.com on the upstart campaign of James Fishback, who defends groypers as "insanely smart & patriotic" & blends white Christian nationalism, Israel skepticism & pseudo-populist economics

Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

US ambassador to Israel saying the US is about to bomb Iran again

We're utterly desensitized at this point, but I still remember when the richest man in the world retweeting "white solidarity is the only way to survive" would've caused major controversy. The type of blood-curdling white nationalism we used to only see on Stormfront

You can just do things

All along, Fuentes has been a hard-nosed imperialist. His critique of the neocons was that they were idealistic, committed to a lofty world-shaping project, rather than remaining focused on raw power. He instinctually supported Trump’s attack on Venezuela today,

How it started /// How it’s going on the ‘non-interventionist’ Gen-Z Right

It was great to talk with @danaelkurd.bsky.social on It Could Happen Here about rising MAGA antisemitism, conspiracy theories and white Christian nationalism; where Israel fits in; and how our progressive Palestine solidarity politics can avoid allying with the Right

I spoke with @benlorber8.bsky.social on antisemitism, the antizionist right wing, and how we can understand this moment. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

Last week, Jewish Studies scholar Zachary Braiterman published a lengthy polemic, ‘Unhinged on the Jewish Anti-Zionist Left’, that included a critical reading of my & @shaneburley.bsky.social’s 2024 book Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism. My response—

*looks up from screen*

Today in weird sh*t from the Christian Zionist archives Don’t bow to random Jews you pass on the street, people, just don’t (From Lord Shaftesbury— a British statesman who lobbied for Jewish settlement in Palestine 50 years before Herzl— circa 1845)

For my newsletter I wrote about Tucker Carlson’s selective empathy for Gaza, and why we shouldn’t be fooled. “For two centuries Western elites have weaponized public displays of sympathy for different minority groups in the Middle East as proxies for inter-elite conflicts…

For two centuries Western elites have weaponized public displays of sympathy for different minority groups in the Middle East as proxies for inter-elite conflicts & agendas. Look up how Tucker & friends were talking about Iraqi women & Christians in 2003. Don’t be fooled

For @religiondispatches.org I looked at US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee’s recent visit to a Messianic church in Jerusalem. Many prominent Christian Zionists are allying with efforts to bring Jews to faith in Jesus— breaking a longstanding movement taboo

Oh this poll is fascinating

In 2021 I spotted Gen-Z MAGA influencer Lance Johnston on a livestream at Nick Fuentes’ annual groyper conference, held outside the TPUSA summit. He covered his face, not wanting to be seen with the other groypers on camera. This week Johnston joined the Pentagon press corps

Antisemitic conspiracy theories thrive in the exploitative & unequal system that produces a billionaire class in the first place. Leading ‘anti-antisemitism’ orgs are laughably ignorant of this basic reality & think posts like this help, when they only make it worse

As the Right continues to fracture after Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes, the Zionist Right is struggling to confront the surge of antisemitism from within their own ranks. @benlorber8.bsky.social and Jess Schwalb explain more in their latest piece for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social:

Elon Musk weighs in, with characteristic brevity and bravado, on the ongoing debate

Feeling seen

In Jewish imaginaries throughout history, the Temple Mount is a focal point for peace & universal blessing. But here, framing the union of Christian Zionism, US empire & the weapons industry, this painting eerily evokes an End Times vision of war

Interesting assertion from Bari Weiss’s The Free Press. I’m sure they apply it consistently around the world, right?

The Jewish Right sure has chosen an interesting time to fixate so heavily on Peter Beinart and the specter of the scary, inhospitable Left. How’s your coalition holding up over there, may we ask? Feeling confident about your choice of movement partners these days?

Tucker Carlson is Nick Fuentes’ biggest interview to date, but it looks like Piers Morgan will be a close second. And while Tucker has a more concentrated MAGA base, Morgans’ will be more culturally diffused & global

PRA's @benlorber8.bsky.social interviews authors Xtn Alexander and @matthewnlyons.bsky.social about their distinct approach to radical antifascism and the ‘three way fight.’ Learn more: politicalresearch.org/2025/03/11/t....

Mike Huckabee just visited a church in Jerusalem whose unambiguous purpose is to convert Israeli Jews to belief in Jesus in order to bring the End Times. Here's a sermon on this from church leader Rick Ridings in Nov 2023, preached from where Huckabee just stood 👇

For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social, Jess Schwalb & I explored the Zionist Right’s flailing attempts to counter rising antisemitism and criticism of Israel within the MAGA ranks. We cover last week’s conference in DC held by a task force on antisemitism which recently left the Heritage Foundation/

For your Thanksgiving reading-- Jess Schwalb & I took a close look at the Jewish & Christian nationalists behind Project Esther who are scrambling, & so far failing to combat the surge in criticism of Israel, much of it antisemitic, within the MAGA camp