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The General’s Son Recounts Very Different Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

By Ira Chernus

…eing naïve.” In 1967 the Israeli army also seized the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, without any permission from the civilian leaders. They called it “finishing the job.” Matti Peled recalled hearing his father say that as early as 1953 the military had determined to “push Israel’s eastern border to its natural location on the banks of the Jordan River.” The occupying army cleared the way for civilian settlers who still use the mythic versio…

The Untold Story of The Greatest Yiddish Poet in America

By Jerome E. Copulsky

…s as a forging of a powerful weapon to be deployed against the Jews, and a betrayal of the Yiddish language itself. Manseau shows that translation can be a way to understanding, of tearing down walls between people and cultures, but it can also be a dangerous, transgressive act. Given the richness and complexity of the novel’s relationships and themes, its tricky postmodern structure, and its competing narratives, it is surprising that Manseau cho…

Trump’s Muslim Ban and the History of Stolen Citizenship in America

By Hussein Rashid and Murali Balaji

…alienable rights endowed by our creator” amongst haves and have nots. When East Asians started arriving in the United States, we were not sure if they were “white” or not. In 1922 the US Supreme Court ruled in Ozawa v. United States that being white meant being “Caucasian,” not just “not Black,” or “not Native American.” East Asians were promptly stripped of their citizenship, because they were not white enough for this country. South Asians belie…

Response to Daniel Philpott: the Politics of Religious Freedom

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…eloping a critique of their consequences. Uncovering and exploring the gap between the religion that is promoted through these efforts and the rest of the world’s religion leads me to challenge the prevailing assumption that the legalization of freedom of religion, engagement with faith communities, and protections for religious minorities are the keys to emancipating society from persecution and discrimination. Instead I argue that these efforts…

Explaining Christian Zionism to Israelis

By Sarah Posner

…mary is now available.] Mining public documents, Schlesinger uncovered at least 69 trips Knesset members took around the world—including some to attractive destinations seemingly divorced from the turmoil of the Middle East, like the Caribbean, Barbados, and Rome—paid for by Christian Zionist organizations, and one, even, by the Messianic Jewish Alliance of America. Many of the Christian Zionist organizations are hardly household names, even in th…

Lindsey Graham’s Lying “Eye-ranians”

By Haroon Moghul

…uinto? When some Iranian leaders suggest Israel has no place in the Middle East, do they really mean Israel has a right to all of the Middle East? When they say they’re the resistance axis, do they mean they’re the compliance cartel? Or does Mr. Graham mean they’re always lying about everything, to the point of contradiction? Ladies and Gentlemen, we need to know. We need to know when we’re being lied to. Is everything Iran does simply ‘taqiyya,’…

With Christian Schools At Risk In Israel, Crickets from American Christian Conservatives

By Sarah Posner

…at kind of growing repression in the U.S. today and it is fostering or at least giving rise to the spread of the persecution of Christians and religious minorities around the world.” If requiring health insurance for contraception is a “massive violation” of the rights of Christians, what is starving their schools of funding? In a letter promoting Family Research Council’s first-ever tour of Israel scheduled for this fall, Perkins described it as…

Arrests Made in Murders of Atheist Bloggers in Bangladesh, But Int’l Response to Violence Remains Anemic

By Murali Balaji

…time when vigilante violence was the means of suppressing free speech. To better understand these fears, it’s important to understand how Bangladesh has come to this point—and why many U.S. lawmakers continue to overlook its growing political and social turmoil. While Bangladesh eventually became its own country following a brief war between India and Pakistan, the remnants of those loyal to West Pakistan and opposed to a secular democratic state…

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

By Haroon Moghul

…od conscience sit idle in the face of anti-Semitism. There is a difference between substantive criticism of Islam and bigotry. Likewise, there is a difference between substantive criticism of Judaism and bigotry. Beck has not only erased that border, he couldn’t find it if you built a wall over it, which he then walked into and banged his head against. Beck claims Islam is uniquely, essentially and perpetually violent. In fact, however, he only de…

The Brutality of Life for Syrian LGBTs; Saving the Anglican Church by Dissolving It; Backlash to Hindu Gay Wedding Ceremony in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…of his family — a cousin attempting to curry favour with his new masters — betrayed him to the militants. Such betrayals are common. The attitude now if you are gay and trapped inside is ‘trust nobody’,” says Elmo. “Not your mother, nor your closest friend. The only difference between all the factions is that some will torture you before they kill you if you are outed and caught.” Among those McDougall interviews are young people fleeing across th…