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Benjamin Kerstein

Benjamin Kerstein is a writer, editor and novelist, and a fellow at the Z3 Institute. His latest work is Self Defense: A Jewish Manifesto (2025).

If the Jews do not defend themselves, second-class citizenship, and far worse, will become the norm.
With the party riven by antisemitism, vague reassurances about supporting Israel’s “right to defend itself” are not enough.
Boycotting systemically antisemitic universities is a good thing, but how do American Jews avoid being ghettoized?
When someone criticizes Israel, we need only ask: “Are they OK with killing Jews?”
The attacks on the Jewish governor of Pennsylvania are part of a much larger strategy to break the American Jewish community.
The universities are the manufacturing center of the American ruling class, and thus all Americans have a stake and a say in how they conduct themselves.
Despite the rush to coronate Kamala Harris, the Democratic National Convention could be hijacked by the party’s antisemitic wing.
Progressives can denounce “political violence” all they want, but they have spent a year colluding in a wave of political violence against American Jews.
The president’s collapse could lead to the takeover of the Democratic Party by an openly antisemitic movement.