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Do Make Trouble: The Complex World of Radical Jewish ‘Revenge Theologian,’ Meir Kahane

By Shane Burley

…DL “Jewish Panthers.” He respected Sonny Carson (a local Black militant in New York) and Stokely Carmichael along with Malcolm X. He also thought they were antisemites and he fought Black antisemitism, which was the reason for him starting the Jewish Defense League during the 1968 New York City school strike (due to the antisemitism directed at union president Albert Shanker). So Black antisemitism does play a role. He had this kind of twisted rel…

I May Disagree with You, but I’m Pretty Sure You’re not Satan

By Joanna Brooks

…ing front-page, column-one headlines in the national edition of the Sunday New York Times and Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert calling for a “Million Moderate March” on Washington, DC, for October 30, it seems right to ask of these moderates the same questions we here at RD have consistently asked of the Tea Party: does this movement have a religion? Here’s a brief roll call from the moderate camp: Michael Bloomberg: Reform Judaism Jon Stewart: Ref…

Whose God in America?

By Marian Ronan

…decision to limit discussion, in the segment on Archbishop John Hughes of New York, to four white Catholic men, three of them priests. As if Catholic women aren’t sidelined quite enough by our own church, now we’ve got the secular media following suit. Once again, readers may disagree. After all, God in America isn’t an affirmative action program. Perhaps the white men the producers interviewed just offered the more illuminating insights. Or thei…

McCarthy, Born Again and Retooled for Our Time

By Sarah Posner

…John 10:10). He had the courage to tell the naked truth about it while the New York Times lied about it for nearly the whole 20th century.” Noebel’s reissue of the Schwarz book, titled You Can Still Trust the Communists to Be Communists (Socialists and Progressives Too), pays homage to Skousen as well, noting that in 1958 he compiled a list of 45 “current communist goals,” six of which, Noebel writes, have already been fulfilled: to present homose…

Stop Policing the Borders of Christianity

By Brandy Daniels

…shapes racial-religious discourse (think of the Muslim cultural center in New York, the immigration debate in Arizona, etc.) is the same problematic theo-logic behind the borders that define public discourse on sexuality and religion. Christianity has come to operate through a particular policing of borders—a logic of who is in and who is out—and a logic that led radical philosopher Frantz Fanon to assert, famously: “This is why we should place D…

From Fox News to the Far(ther) Right — Calls for Violence and Retribution Follow Trump Verdict

By Annika Brockschmidt

…dent Biden, Judge Juan Merchan, Maxine Waters, CNN commentator Norm Eisen, New York Attorney General Tish James, Democratic lawyer Marc Elias, and Chuck Schumer, claims that Democrats are not “above killing their political opposition.” Yes, leading voices on the American Right are openly writing lists of which political opponents, members of the justice system, or parts of the media they want jailed, while at least some of their boots on the groun…

Syria Receives Sudanese Weapons on Ukrainian Aircraft via Qatar and Turkey

By Haroon Moghul

…rently also making their way into the Sinai, which was best reported on by New York Review of Books’ Nicholas Pelham, and those weapons in turn are being aimed at Israel—or being smuggled into Gaza, allegedly, or being smuggled over to Syria. While some see Islamist fighters’ internecine spats as good for Israel, Israel’s own strategists are probably deeply concerned. Numerous and slippery movements with constant weapons flow back and forth are in…

#NeverTrump Evangelicals Must Face the Music

By Neil J. Young

…to Trump’s meeting last month with more than 1,000 evangelical leaders in New York City, Wehner pointed to the “problematic” embrace of Trump by evangelical luminaries like Jerry Falwell, Jr., Franklin Graham, and James Dobson who recently vouched for Trump’s born-again status before saying he couldn’t confirm for sure Trump’s conversion. More than just an embrace, Trump’s support from this motley crew of evangelical politicos helped clear the pa…

Tea Partiers Fall Back on Religion to Deny Reality of Climate Change

By Lauri Lebo

…ffects of global warming than the American public at large, according to a New York Times/CBS News Poll conducted this month. The survey found that only 14 percent of Tea Party supporters said that global warming is an environmental problem that is having an effect now, while 49 percent of the rest of the public believes that it is. More than half of Tea Party supporters said that global warming would have no serious effect at any time in the futu…

Rev. Barber: A “Moral Center,” Not a “Religious Left,” Will Save Us in 2017

By Peter Montgomery

…; Imam Al-Hajj Talib ‘Abdur-Rashid of the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood in New York City; Rev. Robert Hardies, senior pastor of All Souls Church Unitarian in Washington, D.C.; and Bishop Tonyia Rawls of the Freedom Center for Social Justice in North Carolina. Forbes said the Repairers of the Breach will be working with economists and others to conduct an audit of the state of the nation’s poor people. “The nation has systematically ignored or down…