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Orthodox Rabbi Imitates Pat Robertson

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…of the military, cause many to leave the army, and dramatically lower the number of recruits, perhaps leading to the reinstatement of a compulsory draft.” However, that belief runs counter to many studies already done that show lifting Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell would not adversely affect the military in any way. In 1993 RAND Corp. concluded that openly gay people in the U.S. military do not negatively impact unit cohesion, morale, good order, or mili…

Protocols of the Elders of Mecca: Hints of Anti-Semitic Playbook in Glenn Beck’s Islamophobia

By Haroon Moghul

…litical correctness, fear, and simple ignorance to mask basic truths about Israel. These truths need to be confronted in order to defend ourselves, our families, and our country … We hear lies about Israel nearly every day, in nearly every place, in nearly every manner. They usually originate with elites in the media, in Washington, D.C., and in Hollywood.” It is rather amazing that only two words in the above passage have been changed. There’s a…

How Biblical ‘Chosenness’ Has Justified Violence, Misogyny, and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment

By Peter Laarman

…uggernauts of racial violence and displacement were both self-anointed New Israels where, as in “old” Israel itself, a sense of divine chosenness and murderous force unleashed against indigenes have been linked inextricably. For that matter, one might wish that Coogan had specifically invoked the term “settler colonialism,” especially as his publisher—the estimable Beacon Press—also happens to have published the single best book on this fraught su…

Christian Nationalism Was the Loser of Tuesday’s Debate

By Chrissy Stroop

…850048?s=20 In any case, Donald Trump’s foreign policy decisions regarding Israel have been shaped almost entirely by America’s apocalyptically minded white evangelicals, and not by Jews at all. It’s evangelicals’ beliefs about Israel’s role in “fulfilling biblical prophecy” that resulted in Trump upending decades of American foreign policy by moving the embassy in the first place as a gesture of recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel….

Before We Scold DeSean Jackson and Others For Anti-Semitism We Need To Talk About ‘Chosenness’

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…d linguistically the direct descendants” of the Ten Lost Tribes of ancient Israel—rose to prominence in the 19th century. Anglo-Israelism would go through various manifestations with one of the most prominent advocates, Herbert W. Armstrong, starting the Worldwide Church of God in the 1960s, which served as the foundation of the white supremacist Christian Identity movement during the second half of the 20th century. While it’s easy for organizati…

Hagee and McCain Part Ways

By Ira Chernus

…become common to find Jewish leaders joining in Pastor Hagee’s ‘Salute to Israel’ events around the country and paying public tribute and homage to the pastor for his efforts” to aid Israel (like Senator Joe Lieberman, for example, who plans to speak at an upcoming Hagee conference). So Hagee’s views find support in two schools of Jewish thought, a still popular one that says “Any friend of Israel is a friend of mine” and a now less popular one t…

Will Growing Alliance With Christian Zionists Split the American Jewish Establishment?

By Sarah Posner

….” In other words, at the heart of the American Jewish establishment’s pro-Israel cause is a claim to support democratic values in the Jewish state. “By claiming democracy doesn’t matter, Adelson was sabotaging the case for Israel that the American Jewish establishment has been making for decades,” Beinart writes. This is evidence, Beinart argues, of new pressure on the American Jewish establishment—not, Beinart maintains, just from J Street on it…

Chris Christie Apologizes. . . For Saying Something True

By Sarah Posner

…ersonally how extraordinary that was to understand, the military risk that Israel faces every day.” Got that? Using the word “occupied” overshadows that what Christie took away from the experience was the conclusion that Israel is the only party facing risk and danger. Scott Walker is no doubt doing a little happy dance right now. With all the attention on Christie’s faux pas, no one is paying attention to his lame pander that he likes to light a…

Ian Buruma on the Political Excesses of Religion

By Lisa Webster

…se a lot of the fervor in Islamist circles is at least nominally blamed on Israel, and the role of the West in Israel, and there’s also (though commonly denied), a lot of anti-Semitic rhetoric among Muslims. So those who see themselves as defenders of Western civilization against the Islamic threat also often see themselves as defenders of Israel. And they see their opponents often as either anti-Semites or people who close their eyes to anti-Semi…

RD News Round-Up—September 29, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…e prophecy in light of fast-moving geopolitical events in Russia, Iran and Israel, as well as to brief their team on how more people in the epicenter are coming to faith in Jesus Christ than at any other time in human history.” In light of recent events in Israel, Rosenberg raises two questions: “Can [Tzipi] Livni [the new leader of the Kadima Party] put together a coalition to run the government? If she cannot, new elections are coming and Bibi N…