Benjamin Kerstein / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Benjamin Kerstein / JNS.org
The Shudder of the New Aristocracy
JNS.org - In 1848, as Marx and Engels famously pointed out, communism was the specter haunting Europe. Today, populism is the specter haunting everybody. In...
The UN Goes All In on Antisemitism
JNS.org - This site was recently host to a deeply disturbing piece by Anne Bayefsky that dealt with the UN’s just-released “Report of the Independent...
Finally, CUNY’s Antisemitism Is in the Dock
JNS.org - It was the devout hope of many of us in the trenches that, sooner or later, the City University of New York (CUNY)...
The New Freud Revival Can Only Be Good for the Jews
JNS.org - Amid the unremittingly depressing developments coming out of an Israel roiled by domestic controversy and a seemingly unbridgeable political and cultural divide, it’s...
Impressions of an Israel Come Full Circle
JNS.org - “This could have ended in murder,” Sara Netanyahu said last week after being besieged for several hours at her Tel Aviv hairdresser by...
American Jews Must Embrace Their Own Identity Politics
JNS.org - The unprecedented rise of antisemitism in the United States has taken many by surprise; in particular, because it is, for the most part,...
Taking Dark Comfort in an Israeli Arab’s New York Times Lament
JNS.org - As an Israeli-American Jew who has lived in Israel for 20 years, it was with a certain dark comfort that I read Israeli-Arab...
Anti-Israel Activists and Human Sacrifice
JNS.org - A recent op-ed on this site by Richard Cravatts on pro-Palestinian “activism” at Princeton University led me to consider one of the primary...
The Conundrum of ‘Jewish Pride’
JNS.org - The rise of the Religious Zionist Party in the last Israeli election to a position of considerable power and influence was enabled in...
Deconstructing the Demonization of the ‘Settler’
JNS.org - The words “settlement” and “settler” have decidedly nasty connotations these days. I am not speaking only of the discourse on Israel and Zionism,...
Rashida Tlaib and the Coming Purge of Progressivism
JNS.org - Almost from its inception, American Jews have been associated with the progressive movement. For over 100 years, Jews have fought for social justice,...
Holocaust Denial and the Palestinians’ Original Sin
JNS.org - The reaction to Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas’s recent remarks about the Holocaust illustrates a strange phenomenon: Palestinian leaders say something horrific about...
The Jews Learned a Lesson From the Munich Massacre
JNS.org - We are swiftly approaching the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre when 11 Israeli athletes were murdered by Palestinian terrorists. Even...
Ben Shapiro Is Wrong, the Free Market Would Be a Disaster for Israel
JNS.org - While I was studying at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheva in the early 2000s, I once discussed the Israeli economy with...
