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Ahmadinejad Aside, Anti-Racism Conference Was Deeply Flawed

By Austin Dacey

…to the extent that they are protected by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Political Cudgels with which to Pummel the West The United States chose to boycott Durban II not just due to the replay of anti-Western rhetoric, but because the new declaration reaffirms in toto the 2001 text, which urged states to abide by ICERD. What’s more, the text calls for an elaboration of existing international standards in order to keep pace with ne…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…ime Minister Yitzhak Shamir signed the order for Awad’s deportation to the United States. In the United States Awad persisted in espousing a non-violent approach to the conflict: “I am one of those people who reminds the Palestinians that the Israeli is a human being. And we must see them, as well as ourselves, as human beings. The more you destroy another human being the more you destroy yourself.” During the Second Intifada, which began in Octob…

Citizens United’s Bad Religion

By Sarah Posner

…m again. Prevailing theme: Obama has visited unprecedented calamity on the United States of America. Subtext: might he be the Antichrist? The opening sequences set the stage. Obama is depicted as a crafty beguiler of mass audiences; he emerges from a plane out of the heavens as thousands swoon, cry, and cheer. He’s smug and self-congratulatory as he misleads his admirers with lofty promises. He was “charismatic,” a “knight in shining armor,” he “r…

When Corporations are “Persons” Under the Law: The Real Problem With Health Care

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…were more mundane and predictable: Section Two redefined how we distribute numbers of representatives state-by-state, by “counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed”; and Section Three excluded from future service any member of the government who had previously sworn an oath of office to the State and then joined the Confederacy in open rebellion. Predictable stuff, really. After winning the War, Washington int…

United By Hate for Proposition 8

By Jonathan L. Walton

…dominant evangelical orientation of the black church coupled with a large number of Catholic Latino voters may just provide the support Prop 8 needs—it has been said, “politics makes for strange bedfellows.” Yet I am hopeful that enough minority voters will view this amendment for what it is, state-sanctioned discrimination and a bible-based prohibition against exogamy, which is reminiscent of previous state bans on interracial marriage that defi…

Amway, Religious Right Pyramid Scheme, Returns to the Motherland

By Bill Berkowitz

…tics Is it too late for another Top Ten list for 2008? Check out Americans United for Separation of Church and State’s “Top Ten List of Church–State Stories for 2008,” where “The Role of Religion in the Presidential Campaign,” occupies the top spot. And if such longtime religious right organizations—including Lou Sheldon’s Traditional Values Coalition and Rev. Donald Wildmon’s American Family Association—have their druthers, one of next year’s top…

Two Women and a Mosque: A Convert Community Grows in Panama City

By Aliyya Swaby

…. Though Islam in Panama has a different history and context than in the United States, I saw my parents in some of the older black Panamanian converts. Many spent time in the United States during the formative social justice movements of the 60s and 70s, first becoming attracted to the politics of the Nation of Islam before moving toward mainstream Sunni Islam. Abdul Kabir Malik is one of these converts. In the 1970s, Malik began holding Islami…

The Resurgence of Right-Wing Anti-Semitic Conspiracism Endangers All Justice Movements

By Ben Lorber

…white nationalist movements is that generations of progressive Jews in the United States have worked patiently and covertly, through myriad channels of civil society, government, and business, to orchestrate “white genocide”—the disappearance of the “white race” in the United States through gradual demographic minoritization, and cultural marginalization. The alt-right’s premier intellectual, evolutionary psychologist Kevin MacDonald, has helped s…

Latina in America: What CNN Got Wrong

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…is the subject of many Latino/a campaigns demanding CNN fire him. On night number two, the United States’ “wet land dry land policy” for Cubans (who are allowed to stay in the U.S. if they touch dry land) was contrasted with Central American illegal immigrants, who are detained and often sent home. The privilege of being Cuban was contrasted to the marginalization of other Latin Americans attempting to enter into the United States. In this documen…

Blood and Politics — Christian White Nationalism in the Age of Obama

By Bill Berkowitz

…r how to live and what to believe. They also promote their belief that the United States is a White Christian republic rather than a multiracial democracy. And in a number of cases they turn their conviction that White Christians have superior civil and political rights—over those they deem “Fourteenth Amendment” citizens (everybody else)—into fraudulent schemes with fake money. In other instances, they establish “Christian” courts and militia gro…