Ben Lorber
@BenLorber8
Senior Research Analyst @PRAEyesRight. Author SAFETY THROUGH SOLIDARITY: A RADICAL GUIDE TO FIGHTING ANTISEMITISM. stutterer he/him
Today my new book SAFETY THROUGH SOLIDARITY: A RADICAL GUIDE TO FIGHTING ANTISEMITISM comes into the world! Co-authored with @shane_burley1 & published by @melvillehouse, we offer a social movement approach to taking on antisemitism & building a just world penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741043/s…
Everyone needs to read this thread. Israel must be held accountable.
As a longtime humanitarian who has battled famines and hunger crises, I fear that starvation in Gaza has now passed the tipping point and we are going to see mass-scale starvation mortality. A thread on famine momentum, famine response, and what it means for Gaza today.
Moments ago, a woman stood outside the morgue, trying to sell her phone so she could afford a grave for her husband.
Epstein actually had TWO satanic temples on his island, the one he went to and the one he wouldn’t go to.
Every world leader needs to ask themselves if they are ready to be complicit in a famine on their watch. If they are not, they must act decisively now, using every possible political and diplomatic tool, to pressure Israel to lift this unlawful and murderous blockade. /end
The funny thing about conspiracy theories is that they are, by their nature, narcissistic and demobilizing. Why address the dreary, starkly material starvation of children in Gaza or the dismantling of public education, when we can all feel like Col Landa, hot on a case? 1/2
My latest @newlinesmag. The MAGA crusade against Jeffrey Epstein & the pedophile cabal is built on a scaffolding of ultra-nationalism & antisemitism. Millions of Americans are ready to revolt against predatory plutocrats — only a mass progressive movement can really deliver it
The issues of Epstein and Israel have combined to drive a wedge between Trump and his conspiratorial MAGA base, but progressives who applaud these developments and right-wing voices are playing a dangerous game, argues @BenLorber8 at @newlinesmag. newlinesmag.com/argument/progr…
In lecture I always dub this painting “America’s original Karen.” The Trump admin just added exactly 14 words and two random capital H’s
Grateful Jacobin published a brief excerpt from the intro of my book, Citizens of the Whole World. There are a lot of ways to read the cultural history of the American Jewish left, and one I would discourage would be, "see there are some good Jews out there" 1/5 🧵
In the last year and a half, thousands of left-wing American Jews have protested Israel’s crimes against Palestinians. They are taking part in a long tradition of anti-Zionist Jewish radicalism in the United States. jacobin.com/2025/07/baltha…
Much has been written about the conspiracy theorist/MAGA celebrity/Trump whisperer Laura Loomer but this piece by @shane_burley1 and Jewish MAGA's uneasy alliance with white nationalists and antisemites is the deepest dive yet into this ideological swamp. newlinesmag.com/reportage/laur…
Further reading: @shane_burley1 & @BenLorber8 co-authored this important book on the cynical weaponization of antisemitism by the right & how to combat the very real rise in antisemitism & its close relations—Islamophobia, racism, anti-immigrant sentiment penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741043/s…
Hard to find a unique angle on a saturated topic like Epstein, but @BenLorber8 has done just that—he examines the antisemitic underbelly of the MAGA obsession with the billionaire pedophile and warns against progressive amplification of these narratives. newlinesmag.com/argument/progr…