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Protesters in Washington DC, the day before the January 6 insurrection, wrapped in American flags blow shofars.

Netanyahu’s Genocidal Religious Rhetoric isn’t Just an Appeal to the Israeli Right — He Has Another Constituency in Mind

By Brock Bahler

…romised Land,” but they also start with a parallel us vs. them religiously-coded binary that envisions Native Americans and Arab Muslims in a similar category of the “savage” other. This rhetoric, in fact, serves a dual purpose for Netanyahu. On the one hand, it resonates with the faction of Israelis who see themselves following in the footsteps of those who, in addition to serving as a solution to European antisemitism, imagined Zionism as an ext…

The Next Islamists: The Wide Green Smudge That’s Changing Our World

By Haroon Moghul

…, 2009) and Ben Simpfendorfer’s intriguing The New Silk Road: How a Rising Arab World is Turning Away from the West and Rediscovering China (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009). The Wide Green Smudge Simpfendorfer, fluent in Arabic and Chinese, is Chief China Economist at Royal Bank of Scotland, and has lived throughout the Middle East. He brings a casual language that makes his arguments easy to process and a pleasure to read, communicating sensitivities a…

Why Obama for the Nobel? A Nudge? A Reminder?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…Committee was clearly offering its support and congratulations to renewed Arab-Israeli peace processes. The 2002 decision to make the award to Jimmy Carter seemed similarly motivated. Yet it is a cautionary tale for all of us, the fact that these several awards spanning a quarter century did not advance the cause of Arab-Israeli understanding one iota. If peace is a process, then the process has stalled completely. Many in this generation think i…

Closing with Gospel in Morocco

By Hussein Rashid

…elcoming, and the city does serve to break down many US stereotypes of the Arab world. It is a developing city, not dependent on oil wealth. Women dress as they please, as do men. Mosques are ubiquitous, if often below capacity. The old city, a UNESCO world heritage site, contains the homes Maimonides and Ibn al-Arabi. The music at the festival was absolutely wonderful, and did speak in a language beyond language. Now, they just have to make that…

The Holocaust and 9/11 Museums: A Tale of Two Controversial Films

By Todd Fine

…ontext, provides the better approach. The civil rights organizations—Sikh, Arab, Muslim, and South Asian—now critical of the 9/11 Museum’s decisions have more at stake than Christian groups did during the “Antisemitism” film controversy. At that time, Robert Royal, vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, explained the general ambivalence: “As far as criticism of Christianity, we’re not as sensitive because, maybe, we tend to feel, C…

Aliens in America

By Amir Hussain

…f the series in drag, trying to get out of the Army. This pattern of “odd” Arab characters would continue with Tony Shaloub’s title character of Adrian Monk in the current TV program, Monk. Monk was a brilliant detective, but suffered from obsessive compulsive disorder. Interestingly, most of the Arabs on television (and Casey Kasem on radio) were Christian, not Muslim. In 1977, I stayed up to watch Roots, and was delighted to learn that Kunta Kin…

The Most Religious Race: Islam in Europe

By Haroon Moghul

…imes, Caldwell should understand that if fewer than one in five Muslims is Arab then, ipso facto, Islam is not isomorphic with Arabness. He describes the “vanquished enemy” of World War II as racist, although many of the vanquishers were structurally racist themselves. When describing large-scale Algerian immigration into France, he blames the violence of the “Algerian revolution,” though who or what Algeria was revolting against is evidently imma…

Netanyahu Patriarch Dies at 102, Leaves Hawkish Legacy

By Shalom Goldman

…hold sway over his decision-making; he has deemed all such speculation ‘psychobabble.’ But reading what his father Benzion had to say in a 2009 interview with Israeli daily newspaper Maariv, one can only wonder: The tendency to conflict is in the essence of the Arab. He is an enemy by essence. His personality won’t allow him any compromise or agreement. It doesn’t matter what kind of resistance he will meet, what price he will pay. His existence…

Na’vi and Goliath: Palestinian Protesters Dress as Avatar Underdogs

By Shalom Goldman

…ssfully presented itself in the West as the small David fighting the large Arab Goliath. After the 1967 Israeli victory and the subsequent and continuing occupation, this self-presentation became somewhat more difficult, but by no means completely unacceptable—particularly in the United States. The State of Israel’s implicit and explicit claim that it is a “rebirth” of ancient Israel—a claim which resonated deeply with many in the Christian (prim…

Why Are Some Muslims Calling to Replace GMT with Mecca Time?

By Salman Hameed

…arly, because Arab astronomy was dominant in the late medieval period, and Arabic atlases played a key role in the development of modern astronomy, more than half of the brightest stars in the sky have Arabic names. But for some Muslims today, that’s not enough. Even if we concede the colonial legacy of GMT, what would justify Mecca to be the replacement reference point for the entire world? Things start to get messy pretty fast. There is now a wi…