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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).

Fanaticism and baseless hatred may be the price we pay for the Jewish people’s extraordinary powers of resurrection.
Israel should remind the Iranians that they are not the only ones who can become death, the destroyer of worlds.
The systemically antisemitic organization is a political party, not a diplomatic actor, and ought to be treated as such.
Opponents of judicial reform should take a lesson from ancient Athens and seize the opportunity Netanyahu has given them.
An Iron Law of Decadence has seized the world’s elite, and antisemitism is the result.
Why, as a Jew, I am unable to oppose the death penalty.
The international body is a very sick man.
Campus Jew-haters must be stripped of their power.
There is at least a tacit acknowledgment that Jew-hatred is not just a problem on the far-right.
What do we do when a man cannot be criticized without antisemitic connotations?
We have accepted the Catch-22 for long enough. New ideas for solving the Gaza dilemma are required.
Democracy is not always the best or safest way to resolve disputes in which both parties have it on their side.