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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.
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.
As a form of Jewish messianism, the movement will always be torn between the political and the religious.
On Memorial Day, we pay respects to our brokenness, and on Independence Day, we celebrate that it has made us strong.
There may be two kinds of Israelis, but they both need to take a long look in the mirror.