Ben Lorber

@BenLorber8

smash fascism + raise the sparks. former campus organizer . Tweets are my own. blog- music- ✡️🌹🔥✊

Chicago, IL
Joined March 2014
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    1 Nov 2018

    I wrote a piece for about antisemitism in Trump’s America- what it is, and how to fight it

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  2. Retweeted
    7 Dec 2018

    Many white nationalists are fine with Zionism because they think Jews should have their own country, where they can live separately, and get out of other nations. But Israel is not and never will be my country. I have a country: the United States. And I'm not leaving.

    Trump praises Israel as ‘your country’ to American Jews
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  3. 5 Dec 2018

    One of my deepest-held regrets in life is that I was never able to see my cats when they were tiny little kittens

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    2 Dec 2018

    You don't have to be respectful of your political enemies when they die. That's bullshit. In the Jewish tradition, we make their deaths an annual holiday and we wear costumes and eat cookies named after the enemy to celebrate it. That's how you do it.

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    1 Dec 2018

    putting aside the silly content, its amazing how Mort Klein tweets like a 12 year old boy

    Ms Vilkomerson. Have you ever criticized Arab policies and actions by Hamas Fatah Abbas. Or do u only attack the Jewish State. Are u simply an anti Jewish bigot. Prove to me that you’re not.
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    2 Dec 2018

    Shouldn't we also trust Jews when they say that something is not anti-Semitism? Asking for a friend.

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  7. 29 Nov 2018

    When activists like say 'from the river to the sea', they're not advocating for the destruction of Jews. They're advocating for a vision of a single, democratic state in the Holy Land that treats all citizens, Jew and non-Jew, with equality.

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    26 Nov 2018

    when you ask a question in class and the professor says "that's a great question!":

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  9. Retweeted
    25 Nov 2018

    We should set up a national gofundme for people’s medical expenses and call it “taxes”

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    22 Nov 2018

    Here's raw footage of the Barney balloon getting destroyed in the 1997 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade...

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  11. 21 Nov 2018

    Lol

    We are dismayed with 's decision to de-list properties in the West Bank. I sent a letter this morning to  laying out my concerns and posing questions to him that must be answered. Read here:
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  12. Retweeted
    16 Nov 2018

    My parents were both born in Palestine (Falastine). My sity still lives there. So when my sister is being attacked for supporting the movement (protected freedom of speech!) we can't stay silent. Nothing is more American than the fight for justice at home & abroad.

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  13. 15 Nov 2018

    Packed house learning about history of radical Jewish organizing in Chicago and nationwide at release party in Chicago!

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  14. Retweeted
    12 Nov 2018

    The real JUSTICE LEAGUE

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  15. 8 Nov 2018

    I never thought I’d agree with Sheldon Adelson on something but it’s 2018, here we are. Not enough latkes at a Hanukkah party is a major letdown and tbh I’d still probably mention it years later

    Sheldon Adelson’s Still Salty About Lack Of Latkes At Bush’s Hanukkah Party
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    7 Nov 2018

    IfNotNow. J Street. JVP. Imagine if every Jewish person approached these groups and their arguments, asking "what truth is there to be found here? Why do these orgs speak to so many young Jews? What does that mean?" rather than instinctive defensiveness and vilification.

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    6 Nov 2018

    Congratulations to my sister on your victory! I cannot wait to serve with you, inshallah. 🙏🏾

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    1 Nov 2018

    I just tried to read Bertolt Brecht’s poem “To Posterity,” written in exile in 1939, and almost couldn’t do it

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    2 Nov 2018

    “We need to give a clear analysis and condemnation of antisemitism, not only to defend Jews but also to ensure our broader movements remain rooted in sober, material comprehension of the forces against us” Urgent read from .

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  20. 1 Nov 2018

    You forgot to mention that Israel was explicitly founded to assimilate Jews as a collective into ‘a nation like any other nation’, and given the affinities between Israel and neo-fascist regimes worldwide, in one important and tragic sense it has succeeded

    Western Jews are threatened by assimilation, and only in Israel is it possible to live on any point of the Jewish spectrum, and especially on the secular end, without needing to assimilate - Opinion
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    1 Nov 2018

    "The Left also needs to understand better how antisemitism really operates: to redirect popular anger onto a convenient scapegoat, leaving the real enemies of the people unscathed."

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