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Benjamin Kerstein

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Benjamin KersteinJuly 4, 2022
The rise of the anti-Zionist Jews and heretical messianism
The “as-a-Jew” activists who loathe Zionism and Israel are heirs to a dark and destructive legacy.
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Benjamin KersteinJune 27, 2022
The coming election campaign will be the ugliest in Israel’s history
The only losers, once again, will be the Israeli people.
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Benjamin KersteinJune 20, 2022
The ‘Mapping Project’ proves there is only one ‘Jewish issue’
American Jews’ reaction to a BDS map of Massachusetts Jewish sites shows that they have forsaken the only real concern: The empowerment of the Jewish people.
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Benjamin KersteinJune 9, 2022
When your family is the victim of anti-Semitism
I want the perpetrator punished to the fullest extent of the law, but my family does not feel the same urgency. A divide has opened between us.
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Benjamin KersteinMay 30, 2022
Israel needs a national referendum on election reform
A two-round system adopted by referendum could end the absurd political farce in which we now find ourselves.
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Benjamin KersteinMay 23, 2022
The emergence of the Congressional Pogrom Caucus
The “Nakba” resolution is only the next step in the quest to institutionalize anti-Semitism in American politics.
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Benjamin KersteinMay 16, 2022
Jewish democracy and its incommensurables
Israel is dedicated to two principles—Judaism and democracy—that cannot be judged by a universal standard; yet this may be its greatest strength.
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Benjamin KersteinMay 8, 2022
‘Harvard Crimson’ hatred of Israel proves anti-Semitism is a privileged ideology
The newspaper and its staff support BDS because Zionism has always been a movement of unprivileged Jews, and thus cannot be tolerated.
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Benjamin Kerstein and David MeyersAugust 22, 2019
Is Donald Trump hurting Israel?
It seems clear that the president is effectively making Israel—and indeed, all Jews—a moral issue in the United States, which they have never been before. He is turning philo- and anti-Semitism, Zionism and anti-Zionism into questions of patriotism and loyalty.
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