Ben Lorber

Senior Research Analyst

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Ben Lorber works as a Senior Research Analyst at PRA, focusing on white nationalism and antisemitism. Lorber has worked as a journalist, organizer and movement-builder for over a decade. Lorber has published on right-wing social movements, Israel/Palestine, Jewish culture and other topics at The Nation, Salon, The Jewish Daily Forward and more. He tweets at @BenLorber8.

Advisory: ‘No Nazis on Our Streets!’

Combating Far-Right Entryism in Palestine Solidarity Protests

With Palestine solidarity protests ramping up in the U.S. and around the world in response to Israel’s large-scale, indiscriminate assault on Gaza following Hamas’s horrific massacre and kidnapping of Israeli civilians on October 7, troubling…

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Conspiracy at the Core

Five Years After Tree of Life, Antisemitism Continues to Animate the MAGA Movement

Antisemitism today has become a core driver of the illiberal, anti-democratic Right. Its flexible meta-narrative helps unify different sectors of the Right—from White and Christian nationalists, to self-interested billionaires, anti-trans advocates…

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The Fight Ahead

How the Electoral Far Right Fared in the 2022 Midterm Elections

In October 2022, PRA published a map tracking the Electoral Far Right in the 2022 U.S. midterm elections. Of the 276 candidates tracked by PRA, 155 appeared on the general election ballot. 107 of these candidates won their races. In addition to…

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A Bid For Power

Mapping The Electoral Far Right in the 2022 Elections

The purpose of this resource is to help understand and visualize how ideas, policies, and factions that have long been associated with the Far Right in the United States have become an ordinary part of U.S. politics. PRA has identified 274 far-right…

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At American Virtue Summit, Gen-Z White Nationalists and GOP Candidates Plot the Right’s Future

On Friday, July 22, Florida State Representative Anthony Sabatini introduced himself as a “Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon conservative” to a boisterous crowd assembled in a conference hall in Tampa for the launch event of American Virtue, the group…

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Self-Described "Christian Fascist" Movement is Trying to Sabotage LGBTQ Pride Month

Last Weekend's Vicious Episode in Dallas Wasn't Isolated — It was Part of a Coordinated Far-Right Assault

On Saturday morning in the Dallas “gayborhood” of Cedar Springs, an LGBTQ bar called Mr. Misster hosted a family-friendly “drag queen brunch” advertised with the tongue-in-cheek slogan, “Drag Your Kids to Pride.” The event was …

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"Traditional" Catholics and white nationalist "groypers" forge a new far-right youth movement

Activist arm of right-wing Catholic outlet Church Militant is increasingly entwined with racist "groyper" movement

The activist wing of Church Militant is called the Resistance network. As of 2020 the outlet said it boasted more than 5,000 members, and claimed to have…

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White Nationalists Get Religion: On the far-right fringe, Catholics and racists forge a movement

Nick Fuentes' racist "groyper" movement is building a coalition with far-right Catholics. They have a plan

Last Sunday, as pro-choice supporters reacted to the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that will likely overturn Roe v. Wade, a series of videos shot in lower Manhattan went viral. In one, a group of young men stood before an arched wooden doorway…

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Castizo Futurism and the Contradictions of Multiracial White Nationalism

On the night of November 3, 2020, as results from that day’s presidential election began pouring in, White nationalist Nick Fuentes held an election-night livestream event with other leaders of his America First/groyper movement. The assembled White…

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An “America First” White Nationalist Is on Texas Gubernatorial Candidate Don Huffines’ Staff

An open White nationalist leader within the America First/groyper movement, best known within the movement as Jake Lloyd, appears to be currently serving as deputy communications director for far-right Texas gubernatorial candidate Don Huffines.…

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"We Have To Push the Envelope”

A Year After Storming the Capitol, White Nationalist “Groypers” Storm the Right

On January 6, 2021, White nationalist Nick Fuentes stood outside of the U.S. Capitol, addressing a crowd of thousands, as rioters streamed into the building. Hailing the “American people rising up and taking our country back,” Fuentes…

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“Hitler Youth, Without the Hitler”

At Gen-Z Camping Retreat 76Fest, Conservative Influencers Network with White Nationalists

On August 20, 2021, a network of paleoconservative and White nationalist youth activists will gather at F.D. Roosevelt State Park outside of Atlanta, Georgia for a weekend camping retreat called 76Fest. Arielle Early, an 18-year-old White…

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‘The Forgotten Gamers of America’

New Gen-Z Influencers Continue to Push White Nationalism for a Post-Trump Era

On Monday, July 19, 2021 in Tampa, Florida, as the Student Action Summit of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) drew…

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Blood Red Lines: How Nativism Fuels the Right

Author Q&A with Brendan O'Connor

Although some markers of the Trump presidency may be fading, the xenophobic, exclusionary nationalism it helped elevate remains a defining force in U.S. politics. Within the same two weeks this April, Fox News host Tucker Carlson helped mainstream…

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Standing Together

Against Antisemitism and for Justice in Israel/Palestine

This week, large-scale protests in support of Palestinian rights have unfolded across the United States and around the world. An overdue narrative shift is occurring across broad sectors of U.S. society,…

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“America First Is Inevitable”

Nick Fuentes, the Groyper Army, and the Mainstreaming of White Nationalism

On November 19, 2016, days after Donald Trump’s startling election victory, White nationalist Richard Spencer stood in an event space near the White House, feeling the wind of history in his sails. Addressing the approximately 200 attendees of his…

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"King Trump"

In Wake of Biden Victory, White Nationalists and MAGA Mobs March in DC

What appeared to be several thousand hardcore Trump supporters, including sizable White nationalist, militia and street-fighting contingents,…

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Standing By for Violence

Ahead of November Election, Trump Inflames His Vigilante Base

During the September 29, 2020 presidential debate, President Donald Trump gave his White nationalist and militia base a jolt of inspiration, refusing to condemn White supremacy and recent acts of violence and intimidation against widespread Black…

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Speechwriter for U.S. Congressman Channels White Nationalism

On July 22, far-right House Republican and top Trump ally Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) came under fire for potentially breaking House Ethics rules by…

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Antisemitic and Anti-Black

Conservative Jewish Magazine Features Uncensored White Nationalism

On June 11, the American Jewish publication Tablet published a lengthy interview with Kevin MacDonald, a White nationalist and antisemite whose voluminous writings on Jews have shaped the movement responsible…

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The Globalist Within

Antisemitism and Anti-China Nationalism In the Era of Coronavirus

As the coronavirus crisis deepens, voices across the Right are mobilizing a politics of resentment to distract from the Trump administration’s botched response, and to advance an exclusionary nationalist agenda. Their antagonist is China and their…

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The Right Wants to Keep Jewish and Black Non-Jewish Communities Divided

We Can't Let That Happen.

Jews and allies have drawn thousands to demonstrations following separate antisemitic attacks by members of Black communities against orthodox Jews in Jersey City, Crown Heights, and Monsey. The White nationalist movement, meanwhile, has…

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Taking Aim at Multiracial Democracy

Antisemitism, White Nationalism, and Anti-Immigrant Racism in the Era of Trump

As shocking as it was, it is important to understand that the Tree of Life attack was driven by an explicitly White nationalist ideology—an ideology that imagines that U.S. Jews are manipulating policy to use non-White immigrants as a weapon against…

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