Ben Lorber

The question is not ‘is this emotion real?’ but ‘what work is it doing, and for whom?’”

https://bit.ly/TuckerEmpathy

For my newsletter I wrote about Tucker Carlson’s selective empathy for Gaza, and why we shouldn’t be fooled.

“For two centuries Western elites have weaponized public displays of sympathy for different minority groups in the Middle East as proxies for inter-elite conflicts…

This includes, by the way, the cynical & self-interested performances of anti-antisemitism by the same pro-Israel elites Tucker loves to critique!

For two centuries Western elites have weaponized public displays of sympathy for different minority groups in the Middle East as proxies for inter-elite conflicts & agendas. Look up how Tucker & friends were talking about Iraqi women & Christians in 2003. Don’t be fooled

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US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee Spoke at a Conference Designed to Convert Jews and Hasten End Times Last week, US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee spoke at a Christian Zionist church in Jerusalem, whose unambiguous purpose is to convert Israeli Jews to belief in Jesus in order to bring about the E...

For decades, Christian Zionists used to distance themselves from proselytizers. Their Jewish coalition partners insisted on it. But today’s neo-charismatic movements put Jewish conversion alongside support for Israel at the center of their End Times agenda

In the US, many Christian Zionists leading campaigns to ‘fight antisemitism’ support proselytizing to Jews, or actively work with those who do. The same people who led Project Esther— the MAGA crackdown on the pro-Palestine Left— & are now fighting Tucker Carlson.

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee Spoke at a Conference Designed to Convert Jews and Hasten End Times Last week, US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee spoke at a Christian Zionist church in Jerusalem, whose unambiguous purpose is to convert Israeli Jews to belief in Jesus in order to bring about the E...

For @religiondispatches.org I looked at US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee’s recent visit to a Messianic church in Jerusalem. Many prominent Christian Zionists are allying with efforts to bring Jews to faith in Jesus— breaking a longstanding movement taboo

Oh this poll is fascinating

Here’s Johnston & Dao today. As I explained in the above article, they were part of a Gen-Z milieu that sought, during the Biden presidency, to repackage Fuentes’ white Christian nationalist politics for slightly more mainstream MAGA consumption. Today such camouflage is barely needed anymore

‘The Forgotten Gamers of America’ On Monday, July 19, 2021 in Tampa, Florida, as the Student Action Summit of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) drew to a close, a new Generation Z group called the American Populist Union (APU) held its inaugu...

Another new member of the Pentagon press corps, Vince Dao, ran a knockoff groyper group in 2021. When he mentioned Fuentes on the podium at the first American Populist Union summit, the crowd responded with chants of “Nick! Nick!” https://politicalresearch.org/2021/07/20/forgotten-gamers-america

In 2021 I spotted Gen-Z MAGA influencer Lance Johnston on a livestream at Nick Fuentes’ annual groyper conference, held outside the TPUSA summit. He covered his face, not wanting to be seen with the other groypers on camera. This week Johnston joined the Pentagon press corps

Antisemitic conspiracy theories thrive in the exploitative & unequal system that produces a billionaire class in the first place. Leading ‘anti-antisemitism’ orgs are laughably ignorant of this basic reality & think posts like this help, when they only make it worse

The Zionist Right Has a MAGA Problem A conference aiming to confront antisemitism on the right offers a portrait of an old guard left twisting in the wind.

As the Right continues to fracture after Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes, the Zionist Right is struggling to confront the surge of antisemitism from within their own ranks. @benlorber8.bsky.social and Jess Schwalb explain more in their latest piece for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social:

Elon Musk weighs in, with characteristic brevity and bravado, on the ongoing debate

Feeling seen

In Jewish imaginaries throughout history, the Temple Mount is a focal point for peace & universal blessing. But here, framing the union of Christian Zionism, US empire & the weapons industry, this painting eerily evokes an End Times vision of war

Interesting assertion from Bari Weiss’s The Free Press. I’m sure they apply it consistently around the world, right?

The Jewish Right sure has chosen an interesting time to fixate so heavily on Peter Beinart and the specter of the scary, inhospitable Left. How’s your coalition holding up over there, may we ask? Feeling confident about your choice of movement partners these days?

keep his name in the headlines & win him new overt supporters as well as neutralize some opposition

Nick will also easily outmaneuver any silly boilerplate Zionist arguments Morgan throws at him, further lending him credibility.
He won’t get a pat on the back like he got from Tucker. But this interview will still help normalize his voice in the global conversation,

Morgan will likely push back hard on Fuentes’ overt bigotry. It won’t be as friendly an interview as Carlson’s by a long shot. But Nick is also very adept at camouflaging his core views on race, Jews, women etc to make them sound almost reasonable & unfairly maligned

Tucker Carlson is Nick Fuentes’ biggest interview to date, but it looks like Piers Morgan will be a close second. And while Tucker has a more concentrated MAGA base, Morgans’ will be more culturally diffused & global

Looks like a great view! to watch the End Times from, of course

The New Face of Christian Zionism A rapidly growing Christian Right movement has become a driving force behind unqualified U.S.—and global—support for Israel.

Christian nationalist movements like the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), which Succat Hallel is part of put Jewish conversion alongside support for Israel at the center of their End Times agenda. I wrote about NAR Christian Zionism with @fredclarkson.bsky.social for @inthesetimes.com

The New Face of Christian Zionism A rapidly growing Christian Right movement has become a driving force behind unqualified U.S.—and global—support for Israel.

For decades, Christian Zionist leaders took great care to distance themselves from any actors calling for the conversion of Jews, since such calls damaged coalition partnerships with with said Jews, who have resisted them for 2000 years. But in recent years, those boundaries are eroding

Three Way Fight Ben Lorber interviews authors Xtn Alexander and Matthew N. Lyons about their book Three Way Fight, a collection of essays designed to serve as a guide to antifascism and revolution.

PRA's @benlorber8.bsky.social interviews authors Xtn Alexander and @matthewnlyons.bsky.social about their distinct approach to radical antifascism and the ‘three way fight.’ Learn more: politicalresearch.org/2025/03/11/t....

"It’s so important that we pray for a quick acceleration of the numbers of Jewish believers in this city...this is the time. And so we’re here."

Mike Huckabee just visited a church in Jerusalem whose unambiguous purpose is to convert Israeli Jews to belief in Jesus in order to bring the End Times. Here's a sermon on this from church leader Rick Ridings in Nov 2023, preached from where Huckabee just stood 👇