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What if Israel Were in Germany? An Alternate History

…ea came from, and what truths his fiction might reveal to us. Israel is in Germany and the Mormons rule a Missouri monarchy. I think you could do a much better job than me in explaining the doppelgänger world you created… The Arab states of the Middle East and North Africa are united in a democratic superpower—the UAS—with its capital in Riyadh. Persia, Kurdistan, and Turkey are independent democracies closely allied with the UAS. Israel, as you n…

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A Jewish Perspective on Reparations

…ngly brutal sliver of history, after which most of the surviving Jews left Germany (and Europe). Germany, in turn, was forced by international powers to reform and repent. And pay. America’s crimes were drawn out over centuries. And while the Civil Rights Movement forced certain improvements to be made, America has never really had to reckon with its past and dramatically change course as a result. (One need simply walk around the hallways of publ…

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Peru’s Civil Unions Bill Killed as Bishop Calls Sponsor ‘Faggot’; Germany Fines Men For Trying To Force Gay Muslim Teen Into Hetero Marriage; LGBT Global Recap

…fter being stopped at the Romania-Bulgaria border, the boy was returned to Germany. The boy told the Tagesspiegel newspaper that he had come out as gay, and as a result his father had decided to try and force him to marry a woman. Channel News Asia also reported on the story: In a case highlighting the problems Germany faces in integrating its four-million-strong Muslim community, Nasser El-Ahmad, who has a Lebanese background, has also told Germa…

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Turkish Police Move Against Activists Who Defied Pride Ban; And More in Global LGBT Recap

…that has already been adopted by the other. Complicating matters further, Germany also has relatively strict laws on artificial insemination and surrogacy, which narrows those options. Germany’s legal system is out of date in other ways too: Birth certificates require both a mother’s and father’s name to be valid. Woolsey suggests Merkel’s opposition may reflect political caution as much as personal belief, but notes that public opinion is moving…

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Greece Must Suffer for Redemption: A Nietzschean Reading

…German economy in the era of the Euro is fabled, and Nietzsche’s narrative envisions that benevolence follows bounty—the “creditor becomes more humane to the extent that he has grown richer… he ends by winking and letting those incapable of discharging their debt go free…” Owing to his wealth, the creditor no longer smarts when he is not repaid; he can afford mercy. That is to say, in light of Germany’s present situation, Nietzsche would have hope…

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Promise Keepers 2.0: Women and Jews Invited

…eepers, Galatians 3:28 took on new meanings. This past weekend, “slave nor free” was translated loosely as “the haves and the have-nots.” The reconciliation between the rich and poor didn’t play prominently, either in the event’s promos or at the stadium rally itself. PK did offer a “pay what you can afford” program to woo low-income rally-goers, and it also urged attendees to bring food donations for the Denver Rescue Mission. At the rally itself…

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Founder of Liberal Mosque in Germany Under Guard After Death Threats; And More in Global LGBT Recap

…rom NOM President Brian Brown’s description of the bus in the U.S. as the “free speech bus,” the National Front for the Family is calling their version the “freedom bus.” GayStarNews reports that in Guadalajara LGBT activists wrapped the bus in a rainbow flag: Jaime Cobián, a protestor, said ‘these right-wing groups want to remove the rights’ of the most vulnerable people. ‘Gay people are not what you fear,’ he said. ‘They are your sons, fathers,…

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Does Helen Thomas Work for Israel?

…she wasn’t saying Jews should return to Germany and Poland circa 1939, but Germany and Poland, 2010. And Germany and Poland in 2010 are quite different than in 1939. In fact, Germany has one of the largest Israeli diasporas in the world, only exceeded by the United States. Israel has better relations with Germany than any other country in the EU, while ultra-Orthodox Jews have been returning to Poland and Hungary and purchasing property once owned…

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Two Former Nuns Get Civil Union in Italy; Kenyan Govt Partners with World Congress of Families; Mexican Activists Debate Outing of Priests; Global LGBT Recap

…ice minister had suggested that homosexual conduct should be criminalized. Germany: Why does Germany lag its European neighbors on equality? Alexander Görlach, a visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, published an op ed in the New York Times entitled “Germany’s Retrograde Record on Gay Rights.” Görlach identifies Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Christian Democratic Union party as the reason Germany does not rec…

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Following Republican Playbook, German Conservatism Breaks the Post-WWII Taboo

…ment coalition and has since referred to his CDU party as “alternative for Germany with substance” (AfD stands for “alternative for Germany”). One can’t help but feel, German conservatives have lost their inhibition—or whatever had remained of it. But it’s not only conservative politicians who seem emboldened to say things or infer concepts and ideologies that seemed unfathomable mere years ago. Ulf Poschardt, head of the right- and libertarian-le…

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