
Ben Lorber has worked as an organizer, writer and movement-builder for over a decade. He has been active in the migrant justice movement, and worked as a Community Organizer with Grassroots Collaborative, a labor-community coalition fighting for quality public schools, well-resourced neighborhoods and racial and economic justice in Chicago. From 2015 to 2018, he worked as National Campus Coordinator with Jewish Voice for Peace, where he helped students organize for Palestinian rights, and developed materials to help expose and explain antisemitism, Islamophobia and other forms of bigotry. He has written extensively on matters of Jewish history and identity, Middle East peace, and other justice issues for a variety of outlets, including Jacobin, Al Jazeera, In These Times, the Jewish Daily Forward, Haaretz, and more.