Benjamin Kerstein / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Benjamin Kerstein / JNS.org
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...
The Coming Election Campaign Will Be the Ugliest in Israel’s History
JNS.org - With the collapse of the current government, Israel is facing yet another election. It will be the fifth in three-and-a-half years, cost enormous...
The ‘Mapping Project’ Proves There Is Only One ‘Jewish Issue’
JNS.org - Much has been written in recent days about a Boston BDS group’s online map of Jewish sites across Massachusetts. The “Mapping Project” ostensibly...
When Your Family Is the Victim of Antisemitism
JNS.org - Recently, and at long last, the antisemite who has been vandalizing my family’s business in a Jewish suburb of Boston for nearly a...
Israel Needs a National Referendum on Election Reform
JNS.org - That the Israeli political system is dysfunctional has long been obvious, but this dysfunction now appears to have reached a point of critical...
Jewish Democracy and Its Incommensurables
JNS.org – An excellent recent column by Zionist activist Blake Flayton on how to explain and defend Israel as a “Jewish and democratic state” recently caught...
