Ben Lorber

Hello to my new followers! I research and write about the US & global white Christian nationalist movement with @praeyesright.bsky.social. I’m also co-author of the new book Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741043...

Right now there is clear, overwhelming opposition to Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction across the moderate, liberal, progressive & left spectrum. This kind of loud unity is what authoritarians are afraid of. To keep it up we need every institution & public leader to join the chorus.

The self-identified fascist making the rounds in today's viral @mehdirhasan.bsky.social video is an online personality in Nick Fuentes' groyper movement known as Pinesap. Here he is speaking at a Fuentes rally in June 2024 & pictured with other figures in the movement

Claiming support from a made-up Jewish organization named 'Holocaust Council' to defend the appointment of a groyper to a high-level position telegraphs that figures in the Trump administration are deeply disdainful of Jews, and relish the opportunity to sadistically troll us

Yesterday @peterbeinart.bsky.social & I discussed the bad-faith attacks on Hasan Piker, why establishment Dems keep punching Left, & why it's a failed strategy. We also discussed antisemitism, Israel/Palestine, America First & coalition politics. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

everyone just calm down

My latest on Substack- Specters of Balfour "Those who dismiss Piker’s warning as victim-blaming are thinking moralistically, not politically...the point is not to assign blame for antisemitism but to understand the conditions of its emergence"

By joining the pile-on against Hasan Piker, Democrats & liberals are running the Right's disinformation playbook for them-- the same playbook the Right uses before every election. This time around the moral panic was created by a far-right pro-Israel account named Max Nordau/

Hasan Piker's statement about the relation between American Jewish support for Israel and antisemitism shouldn't be so controversial. Here's Hannah Arendt making the same point in her 1944 essay 'Zionism Reconsidered'

Deborah Lipstadt, noted Holocaust historian & antisemitism czar under Biden, just shared a hardline transphobe who compared gender-affirming surgery to genital mutilation & slammed 'gender ideology' For many self-styled 'liberals', Israel advocacy is a gateway drug to the Right

The latest issue of @jewishcurrents.bsky.social carried a bad review of my good friend @blbalthaser.bsky.social’s excellent new book on the American Jewish Left and anti-Zionism. I wanted to explain what’s wrong with the review, and why it matters

I usually keep my pettiness in check. But I do wonder if the boys at @mostmoralpod.bsky.social are having second thoughts after recording a whole episode the other month, slamming me & others for naming Susan’s antisemitism. These 3 posts are just from the last few days—

Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that Mamdani’s pro-Israel critics are correct today— that when the mayor of NYC used his large platform to call Netanyahu a war criminal and urge his arrest, it helped inspire a mentally ill person to stab a Jew on the streets of Manhattan /

My latest-- Christians United for Israel, the largest Zionist group in the US, just held its annual conference in DC. An interfaith coalition led by Christians for a Free Palestine & @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social took the streets to demand faith beyond Empire religiondispatches.org/2026/07/16/r...