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      Since You’ve Been Gone: The Politics of Hysterectomy and the Impossibility of ‘Choice’
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      Leo XIV: The (Great) Migrations Pope?
    • Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents
      Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents
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    • Since You’ve Been Gone: The Politics of Hysterectomy and the Impossibility of ‘Choice’
      Since You’ve Been Gone: The Politics of Hysterectomy and the Impossibility of ‘Choice’
    • Capitalism’s Violence calls for Collective Wrath, not Luigi Mangione’s Privatized Rage
      Capitalism’s Violence calls for Collective Wrath, not Luigi Mangione’s Privatized Rage
    • HABEMUS PAPAM: New Pope Selection Signals Church’s Concerns about Spread of US, Global Authoritarianism
      HABEMUS PAPAM: New Pope Selection Signals Church’s Concerns about Spread of US, Global Authoritarianism
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    • The US Right’s Campaign to Make More ‘Babies of a Certain Kind’
      The US Right’s Campaign to Make More ‘Babies of a Certain Kind’
    • Against American Exceptionalism? Pope Leo XIV v. US Christian Nationalism
      Against American Exceptionalism? Pope Leo XIV v. US Christian Nationalism
    • Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
      Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
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    • Capitalism’s Violence calls for Collective Wrath, not Luigi Mangione’s Privatized Rage
      Capitalism’s Violence calls for Collective Wrath, not Luigi Mangione’s Privatized Rage
    • Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents
      Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents
    • Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
      Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
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Joel Schalit

Joel Schalit, an Israeli-American writer and editor based in Berlin, is the former editor of Zeek, and managing editor of Tikkun magazine. Schalit has produced five books and contributed to numerous periodicals. His most recent book is Israel vs. Utopia (Akashic Books).

Politics/LawJune 15, 2009

Israel Under Bush: The Islamophobia Years

By Joel Schalit

The Republican strategy of scapegoating Muslims may have been calculated to lure Jewish voters, a failed strategy that turns out to be the tail-end of a long and damaging trend.

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Politics/LawJune 12, 2009

Op-Ed: God’s Will in Iraq: Sarah Palin and America’s Global Mission

By Joel Schalit

What does it mean when someone like Sarah Palin uses religious rhetoric to talk about American foreign policy? Is she just provincial, or is she signaling a complete disregard for the principles of liberal democracy?

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Culture, Politics/LawFebruary 24, 2009

Christianity Denial: Israeli Comedian Strikes Back at the Vatican

By Joel Schalit

An Israeli late show host’s skit denying the virgin birth caused a furor among evangelicals and the Vatican. He had his reasons.

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Archive, Politics/LawDecember 10, 2008

RDBook: Is Zionism Anti-Semitic?: Zizek’s Violence

By Joel Schalit

Philosopher Slavoj Zizek thinks that Judaism and Zionism are in tension with each other, but this seeming paradox is just the tip of the iceberg, or Greenberg, or Goldberg…

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