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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.
Secret Students for Justice in Palestine documents reveal a domestic terrorist network bent on genocide.
American Jewish leaders, stand up now or forever hold your peace.
The left’s favorite slogans are expressions of pure murderous nihilism.
In the end, it’s a legacy of the New Left’s deranged mythology of the Cold War.
Optimism isn’t easy in a world that so often appears willfully evil.
Discontents with Biden are understandable, but the idea that Israel can end its alliance with the U.S. is pure fantasy.
The Jews have always been exceptions to history, but this is a particularly odd exception.
Young Americans believe the social contract has been violated and they blame the Elders of Zion.