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Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…tish what they did to us. Let us liberate them from their colonialism.” In East Jerusalem, Arun Gandhi and Palestinian Premier Ahmed Qurei led a march against the Israeli built Wall/Fence. A handful of Israeli leftists joined them. Reporting on the rally Arun Gandhi held in Jerusalem in August of 2004, Jonathan Cook noted that “neither the solidarity tents for the prisoners nor Gandhi’s rallies have been graced by members of Israel’s largest peace…

Fascinating History of Search for “Lost White Tribe” Sheds Light on Construction of Race

By Michael Schulson

…African coast hoping, among other things, to discover white people—or at least Christian ones. Stories about a mystical king in Africa or East Asia—fabulously wealthy, devoutly Christian—had been kicking around the European rumor mill for centuries. The king, named Prester John, was often depicted “as light skinned and European in appearance,” or even wearing European clothes, writes Robinson. Explorers didn’t find Prester John. But as they enter…

Well, It Would Have Been a Good Religion Question…

By Sarah Posner

…straight face, say it was a matter of local concern that he wasn’t going to comment on, when he otherwise has (albeit in a perfunctory way) called for the promotion of women’s rights in other parts of the Middle East? And since Obama was promoting the rights and freedom of religious minorities last night, wouldn’t this case fall under his concern? There are good religion questions. They just don’t get asked….

6 Reservations About U.S. Intervention in Libya

By Haroon Moghul

… If we’re going to transgress certain democratic principles, at the very least we should do so in our own clear and obvious interest. Or maybe it’s just me. 4) This intervention only drives us further into a negative conversation with the Muslim world and the Middle East. Over and over again, we insist that we are not the world’s policeman, and yet we get involved in police actions with astonishing regularity. We intervene selectively, we make hu…

The Tea Party are Sodomites

By Jay Michaelson

…n hospitality is entirely of a piece with what we know of the Ancient Near East where, like today, among Bedouin and Arabs, hospitality is a core value. The Ancient Near East had no Holiday Inns; hospitality is essential for survival and its presence or absence says much about the ethical character of people. Consider Exodus 22:21 and 23:9 and its injunction not to oppress strangers; Luke 7:44-46 (where Jesus rebukes Simon: “I entered your house,…

Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Terrible Tweet

By Haroon Moghul

…he Graves of Tarim, a new, peaceful, entirely non-militarized trade linked East Africa to China. (He’s at Duke University.) The artistic and aesthetic legacies from these periods speak for themselves. The Alhambra Palace in Granada, which so inspired Washington Irving. The Taj Mahal in Agra. The Blue Mosque in Istanbul. The wonderful domes of Isfahan. But within a few centuries, all these lands were under foreign rule, their populations subjugated…

The Right is Deeply Divided Over Support for Israel — Though It’s Not About Justice for Palestinians

By Ben Lorber

…wn imperial interests for geopolitical control and dominance in the Middle East. In this relationship, Israel functions as what Noam Chomsky once called “a military offshoot of the United States.” Progressives support Palestinian rights, and an end to U.S. military aid, as part of a broader commitment to anti-racist and anti-oppressive politics everywhere, including the U.S. (which, like Israel, has its own ongoing settler-colonial legacy). On his…

What Coverage of a Fatal Orthodox Baptism Reveals About Western Media

By Katherine Kelaidis

…iod—came to symbolize the backwardness and even barbarity of the Christian East and was used to place Eastern Christians and traditionally Eastern Christian cultures outside of the parameters of the “West.” It did not and does not matter that Christianity was a significant pillar around which “Western” identity was built. Eastern Christians simply came to be seen as somehow not fully Christian. Nor did it seem to faze anyone that ancient Greek cul…

Some Christian and Muslim Leaders Urging ‘No’ Vote in Australian Mail Ballot on Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the results of an effort to survey LGBTQ activists in 42 Asian and Middle Eastern countries on the impact on other countries of Taiwan’s moves toward marriage equality. An excerpt: While many may be tempted to cite Islam as the main reason for the Middle East’s institutionalized homophobia, Jordanian Queer Muslima pushes hard against this argument. She argues that before Victorian-era colonization, “Islamic discourse spoke to communities that wer…

Reimagining Twentieth Century Harlem as a Jewish Mecca

By Jeffrey Gurock

…here were those who had succeeded economically downtown and fled the Lower East Side after the turn of the 20th century. But actually, a second group of immigrants was pushed uptown by the unintended consequences of urban renewal efforts on the Lower East Side that limited space for the poor. Did you have a specific audience in mind when writing? Obviously the descendants of those 175,000 Jews who once lived in Harlem—including my own family— are…