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    <title>Benjamin Kerstein</title>
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    <description>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).</description>
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      <title>The ghetto of the mind</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[If the Jews do not defend themselves, second-class citizenship, and far worse, will become the norm.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>US and Europe must stop importing Jew-hatred</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[What is necessary is something radical and unquestionably controversial: a ban on all immigration from countries in which more than 50% of the population is antisemitic.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 23:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Jewish self-defense is the only way</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jews in the United States must jettison the fantasy that they are exceptions to history and that “it can’t happen here.”]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>When Democrats tell the Jews, ‘Let me be clear…’</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[With the party riven by antisemitism, vague reassurances about supporting Israel’s “right to defend itself” are not enough.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 13:49:40 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Jews on campus should start making ‘good trouble’</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Boycotting systemically antisemitic universities is a good thing, but how do American Jews avoid being ghettoized?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2024 13:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The question that reveals the antisemite</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[When someone criticizes Israel, we need only ask: “Are they OK with killing Jews?”]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2024 11:51:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The ghettoization of Josh Shapiro</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The attacks on the Jewish governor of Pennsylvania are part of a much larger strategy to break the American Jewish community.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:30:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Impose a fairness doctrine on academia</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2024 13:56:44 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Democrats' looming Chicago disaster?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Despite the rush to coronate Kamala Harris, the Democratic National Convention could be hijacked by the party’s antisemitic wing.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2024 13:49:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The left’s post-assassination hypocrisy</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Progressives can denounce “political violence” all they want, but they have spent a year colluding in a wave of political violence against American Jews.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2024 14:12:26 GMT</pubDate>
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