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The Failure to Focus on — And Yes, to ‘Cancel’ — Right Wing Antisemitism is a Problem

By Elad Nehorai

…rs earlier, McCarthy had removed former Representative Steve King from his committee assignments due to a comment sympathetic to white supremacists. Whether gauging the interest through Google trends: …or through social media interest (source: BuzzSumo)… …the simple reality is that a Black woman’s misstatement on the View got far more attention than a congresswoman’s attendance at a Neo-Nazi conference, an act that would have once been considered…

Will Huntsman’s Mormon Mojo Work on the National Stage?

By Joanna Brooks

…te. Go to campaign headquarters at Jon2012.com (which, by the way, doesn’t come up when you Google “Hunstman 2012” or “Huntsman for President”—ouch). The first thing you see is a long shot of a helmeted man riding motocross across the red sands of Monument Valley in southern Utah. And a single word: “Finally.” Really? Still, despite some less than convincing first campaign steps, the consensus take on Huntsman seems to be that he’s a decent man wi…

WHO IS JEW RUN FOR PREZDNET?

By Evan Derkacz

…tortured grammar, asking questions that are all fairly easy to answer with Google. My sample below is Jewish, because I received a version of the email from a Jewish listserv. This was my response along with a short note: “We Jews, of all people, should understand that fear of ‘the other,’ whatever category or color, is very dangerous. ‘Never again’ is impoverished unless it’s never again for anyone, anywhere.” Now, sit back and enjoy [photo below…

Norway Massacre Suspect Anders Behring Breivik, Hitler, & the Jerusalem Post Editorial

By Sarah Posner

…ences would be for their tribes if they lost,” nonetheless “went ahead and completed the job” (note that Breivik at no point employs the word Holocaust). Breivik then turns his anti-multiculturalism screed against Jews, disparaging Jews who “support multiculturalism” and lauding those who do not. He describes the latter as “Israeli nationalists (who want to deport the Muslims from Israel)” (apparently something he approves of). Here, Breivik lamen…

Thoreau’s Ferocious Critique of Philanthropy Does Not Make Him “Selfish”

By Alda Balthrop-Lewis

…hat looked like towns in Zimbabwe, just as overlooked and beleaguered… Big companies have always sought cheaper labor, moving from North to South in the United States, looking for the hungriest, the most desperate, the least organized, the most exploitable. Press coverage of conditions in Apple’s factories in China has been anything but glowing. Yet when Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, says he’ll give his personal wealth to charities of his choice (many o…

The Right Questions Kamala Harris’ Blackness — Yet as Long as She Holds Any Power She’ll Always Be Too Black for Them

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…the limelight because we’re only half Black. Balancing is a tricky thing, complicated by being a different binary than Black and White. Black and Brown? What even is that? In a sense, Blackness is flattened; neither complex and multi-faceted, nor reflective of a shared history among a diaspora. It’s exclusive and yet elusive. Don’t get me wrong, anti-Blackness is a horrible thing whose heaviest blows are dealt to those who aren’t mixed, have no s…

New Poll: Repeal DOMA

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…commissioned by the largest organization fighting for LGBT rights, but the numbers [pdf] show that the sample actually skewed right. Of the 800 registered voters polled 38 percent were strong, weak, or independent-leaning Democrats with 41 percent identifying as strong, weak, or independent leaning Republicans. Conservatives outweighed liberals by 38 to 18 percent, and a full 74 percent of those polled identified as religious. Some 40 percent clai…

Fox Makes Mockery Of Promise To Rein In Beck’s Anti-Semitism

By Sarah Posner

…rous satanic force on earth. While Beck claims to be an opponent of the genocidal Nazi regime, and a great supporter of Jews, as Alexander Zaitchik wrote in Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and The Triumph of Ignorance, Beck’s career is actually built on three of the “eight most common social phenomena that precede and accompany genocide,” dehumanization, classification, and polarization. In his twisted propaganda screed against the right’s sworn enemy…

Are School Districts Getting the Message on Government-Sponsored Prayer?

By Lauri Lebo

…ly end the Bible class, drawing boos from a crowd of students, parents and community members who had shown up to speak in support of the program. In the Chattanooga suburb of Hamilton County, the Times Free Press reports: After receiving a letter of complaint from the Freedom from Religion Foundation this week on behalf of students from Soddy-Daisy High School, Scales sent an e-mail to all local principals on Tuesday, saying the U.S. Supreme Court…

Conservative Christians Oppose New ‘Inter-Religious’ University

By Philip Clayton

…s on either one side or the other, in sympathy with one leader or another, committed to one position or the other. Middle ground collapses.” Admittedly, the inter-religious university at Claremont will face challenges. Can the school maintain high standards for rigorous religious education? Will graduates continue to be well-versed in their own traditions? Or will the result be a syncretistic blending that pulls the new university away from any cl…