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Benjamin Balthaser

Bylines

The Red Scare Is American Past and Present

If we want to understand how we arrived in this authoritarian moment in 2025, we need to understand one of the central pathways that brought us here.

by Benjamin Balthaser via Jacobin
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on October 19, 2025
On the Decades-Long Erasure of Jewish Working-Class Anti-Zionism

Mike Gold, Alexander Bittelman, and the paradoxes of left-wing Zionism.

by Benjamin Balthaser via Literary Hub on July 23, 2025
The Long Anti-Zionist History of the American Jewish Left

Thousands of left-wing American Jews have protested Israel. They are taking part in a tradition of anti-Zionist Jewish radicalism.

by Benjamin Balthaser via Jacobin
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on July 21, 2025
The Past, Present, and Future of Left Jewish Identity

Jewish-led Palestine solidarity demonstrations are part of a long history of Jewish identity being bound up in leftist politics.

by Benjamin Balthaser, Shane Burley via Jacobin
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on June 8, 2025
Maurice Isserman’s Red Scare

A new history of the CPUSA reads like a Cold War throwback.

by Benjamin Balthaser via The Baffler
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on November 21, 2024
Racial Violence in Black and White

From lynching photos to Black Lives Matter – what does it mean to look at images of African Americans being murdered?

by Benjamin Balthaser via Boston Review on July 13, 2016

Book

Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left

Benjamin Balthaser

2025

Benjamin Balthaser

Bylines

The Red Scare Is American Past and Present

On the Decades-Long Erasure of Jewish Working-Class Anti-Zionism

The Long Anti-Zionist History of the American Jewish Left

The Past, Present, and Future of Left Jewish Identity

Maurice Isserman’s Red Scare

Racial Violence in Black and White