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LGBT’s, Opponents Prep for Vatican Synod; UN Rights Council Adopts LGBT Resolution; Brazil’s Evangelicals Eye Presidency; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…, Kuwait, Maldives, Morocco, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates opposed it. Burkina Faso, China, Congo, India, Kazakhstan, Namibia and Sierra Leone abstained. The U.N. Human Rights Council before the final vote rejected seven proposed amendments put forth by Egypt, Uganda, Pakistan, South Sudan and other countries that sought to strip LGBT-specific language from the proposal… LGBT advocates earlier this week expressed conc…

RDBook: Bernard Avishai’s The Hebrew Republic

By Mitchell Plitnick

…say that his vision is completely dependent on the integration of Israel’s Arab sector, and on Israeli Arabs embracing such a market-based program. From my own personal experience working with Israel’s Arab community, I tend to agree that they would. But, again, this possibility comes with a time limit. Avishai documents the increasingdisillusionment, alienation and gradual radicalization of the Arab community in Israel. While many argue that the…

Touch Me, Man, I’m Healed, I’m Straight

By Ted Cox

…the peer-reviewed journal Professional Psychology: Research and Practice. Between 1995 and 2000, the researchers conducted interviews with 202 people who had received various forms of “sexual orientation conversion intervention.” The results? Of the 202 people interviewed, 176 of them (87 percent) viewed their attempts at therapy as a failure. Merely eight participants (3.96 percent, for all you math buffs) reported what the researchers called a…

The Revolution Will Be Whispered: An Excerpt From Everywhere a Guest, Nowhere at Home: A New Vision of Israel and Palestine

By Kim Chernin

…s called Masdar City, and it is down the road from Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. It will be a model ecological city, with 80 percent of its water recycled for use; it won’t have cars; it will be run on power that comes from the sun. The water used for the crops will be collected underground and used all over again. Even the waste will be 100 percent recycled. This is not a dream for the future. Older sister has told them that it is alread…

Warships, Animals, Pubs Eligible For Blessings From Church of England, But Not Same-Sex Couples; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…punishable by death in Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, in Lebanon it is not explicitly outlawed. However it is still considered a criminal act… According to a global study by the Pew Research Centre, more than 80 per cent of Lebanese view homosexuality unfavourably, hardened attitudes that can be attributed to conservative religious institutions, Christian and Muslim alike. January’s verdict has been condemned by…

What if Israel Were in Germany? An Alternate History

By Haroon Moghul

…viously, is the meddling of Western powers to whom a genuine commitment to Arab rights and freedoms is not a priority. I feel even less qualified to make predictions about the Arab Spring, but the fact that the push for change is coming from within rather than being imposed from without seems like grounds for cautious optimism. I hope it pans out, and I also hope that whomever we elect in November doesn’t decide to “help” in ways that do more harm…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…Palestine, have not ceased to strive for the achievement of genuine peace between Jew and Arab. […] In order to carry out a task of such extreme difficulty—and recognizing that we have to overcome an internal resistance on the Jewish side, as foolish as it is natural—we are in need of the support of well-meaning persons of all nations, and we had hope of it. But now you come and settle the whole existential dilemma with the simple formula: ‘Pales…

The Arab, the Feds and the Flood: Dave Eggers’ Zeitoun Rescues America

By Haroon Moghul

…eously. Eggers is so good at what he does, we forget that he is the medium between Zeitoun and our reading. We feel ourselves inside the story, for which reason it never loses its compelling momentum. But the still better half, the half that hurts long after the book is back on the shelf, is in the faith and romance that pull it all together, that take before and marry it to after, explaining why Zeitoun settled down and who it was who went sick w…

The Ghosts and Illusions of the Occupation

By Sarah Posner

…n “price tag attacks, unjustified police violence, and physical attacks on Arabs including women and children has led to increased anger and frustration in Arab localities,” even before the three Israeli teenagers were heinously kidnapped and murdered last month. The group has called on the international community “to put a stop to the racist violence and incitement against the Arab community in Israel and to put an end to the unjustified politica…

Gambling with God: Ryan Bell’s Atheist Bet

By Linn Marie Tonstad

…to act as if he did not believe. Yet his understanding of the relationship between belief and practice suggests something about how we have come to think of religion in the marketplace approach of contemporary spirituality. Bell treats atheism as a religious practice in which one attends services and reads devotional literature, the “sacred texts” of atheism, as he calls them. The conclusion he hopes for is just what Pascal thought was impossible,…