benjamin-balthaser

12 Articles by: Benjamin Balthaser

Benjamin Balthaser is an associate professor of multiethnic US literature at Indiana University, South Bend. He is the author most recently of Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left from Verso Books.

Our American Zion

The racism and red-baiting of Bari Weiss’s latest book, How to Fight Anti-Semitism, isn’t an accident. It reflects her deep conflation of her own Judaism with American exceptionalism and the US global empire.