Benjamin Kerstein

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Mar 25, 2019, 6:56 PM

Yes, Moshe Feiglin Is the Most Dangerous Man in Israel

For a writer, outrage is always flattering. Usually, it means you’ve touched a nerve, told an uncomfortable truth, and set off an explosion of angry emotion on the part of those who are quite resolutely set against hearing that...

Jul 9, 2018, 11:56 PM

Linda Sarsour’s Racist Minstrelsy

Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour isn’t hard to pin down. She has called for jihad against President Donald Trump, attended an event with notoriously vicious antisemite Louis Farrakhan, proclaimed "it is not my job as a Palestinian Muslim woman to...

Nov 19, 2012, 3:10 PM

Jabari a peacemaker? Baskin’s tall tales and media gullibility

A story swiftly making the rounds through the media claims that, contrary to all indications on the ground, peace was at hand between Israel and Hamas in the days before the current battle between the two erupted; a peace...

Aug 5, 2012, 5:24 PM

Willful blindness: A response to Dennis Mitzner

Dennis Mitzner, a very fine writer and a friend of mine, has offered several objections to my recent article on Moshe Silman’s self-immolation. Mr. Silman of blessed memory has since sadly departed this world; so it is left to...

Aug 2, 2012, 7:41 AM

In the US, looking through the poor of Israel

While Jewish organizations pour millions into initiatives that promote peoplehood and other lofty goals, others are passing through the fire

Jul 16, 2012, 8:39 AM

From fire to inferno: Moshe Silman’s lesson for Israel

We have the chance to say that the choice is not between being wealthy and being Greece, between an auto-cannibalistic capitalism and the nightmare of socialist totalitarianism. There are infinite gradations in between, and Israel is strong and smart enough to formulate its own

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Benjamin Kerstein is a writer and editor who lives in Tel Aviv