Jews of Privilege
By Benjamin Kerstein

Elites, Anti-Zionists, and Our Secret Civil War

September 25, 2026

An examination of the class roots of Jewish anti-Zionism and anti-Israel activism, revealing how it ultimately fosters self-hatred and self-destruction.

In an era of rising antisemitism, a troubling phenomenon has emerged: Some of the most vocal apologists for hatred of Jews and Israel are Jews themselves. In Jews of Privilege, author Benjamin Kerstein investigates this striking and unsettling trend, exposing an affluent, insulated elite at the top of American Jewry’s unspoken class system.

These Jews of privilege, he argues, are detached from and often disdainful of their fellow Jews, acting—knowingly or not—as defenders of those who wish them harm. Drawing on two decades of life in Israel and his own experiences as an American-born outsider to this privileged world, Kerstein presents a penetrating portrait of an elite that is destroying itself from within.

Part social critique, part personal memoir, Jews of Privilege is a provocative and timely exploration of class, identity, and betrayal within the Jewish experience today.