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

By Shalom Goldman

…Na’vi” were Palestinians, Israeli activists, and Europeans. As the Bilin demonstrations have been going on for almost five years and have attracted the attention of the international media, the photos of the blue-painted demonstrators were seen around the world. The conflict at Bilin revolves around disputes over the West Bank separation barrier—what many Israelis call the ‘security fence’ and what Palestinians refer to as the ‘racial segregation…

RNC Chair Hopefuls Defend “Traditional Marriage”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…t couldn’t quite bring themselves to full-on gay bashing. During a debate among the chairman candidates, Steele — without mentioning religion at all — said that marriage is “foundational to who we are as a nation, how we define ourselves as people.” He continued: “The idea of the man and woman joined together to create family is as old as time and we as a nation are tied inextricably to that, not to the exclusion of others not to the exclusion of…

Clueless in Gaza

By Shalom Goldman

…ns would not have been killed. The Israeli print and electronic media is almost unanimous in condemning the heavy-handed way the Netanyahu government has acted. Do we in the United States need to know about these critiques and give them serious consideration—absolutely. There are some American Jewish intellectuals, among them some rabbis, who are deeply disturbed by the latest Israeli actions and they’ve been disturbed about similar actions for a…

TLC Premieres Polygamy Reality Show Sister Wives

By Joanna Brooks

…eyeopener.” (Never mind that British Columbia is home to one of the larger Mormon polygamous communities on the continent.) Us Magazine calls it “provocative” and “utterly fascinating” and gives it four stars. And over at the Los Angeles Times a reviewer crows: “I’ve seen the feminist revolution and it is . . . polygamy?” (Really? You’ve never seen women do collective childcare without being married to the same man?) The show opens with shots of g…

Opening the Door to Hell: Jewish Terrorism in Israel

By Shalom Goldman

…raelis and the Palestinians as well as the neighboring Arab states. Now, almost a month into the talks, the political and military situation continues to deteriorate. On September 12, three Palestinians were killed in Gaza by Israeli mortar fire—including, this time, a man in his nineties and his teenage grandson. Ten days later on September 22, a Palestinian man was shot dead by a security guard in East Jerusalem. A day of riots ensued. What Have…

Former Employees: Racism & Abuse in Leading Religious Right Org.

By Sarah Posner

…erous and debunked “history” of a Nazi-gay link, claiming “the masculine homosexual movement in Germany created the Brown Shirts, and the Brown Shirts in turn created the Nazi Party.” In a column earlier this year opposing the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, Fischer recycled that 2008 column, adding, “Even today in America, it is chic in some homosexual circles for individuals to wear replicas of Nazi Germany uniforms, complete with iron crosses,…

Goodbye, (Mythic) Columbus

By Ira Chernus

…fferent kind of sympathy for the paraders, too. They were all white folks, mostly Italian-Americans, riding in cars and on cheaply-made floats, trying to create an air of excitement. But there was something sad, hollow, and strangely touching about it—as if they were trying too hard to whip up enthusiasm and regain a proud sense of identity. Security, Pride, Tranquility Many looked like they had just stepped out of the pages of a 1950s-era issue o…

South Carolina Baptists Confuse Condemnation and Compassion

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ch against homosexuality. One of the eight resolutions approved Tuesday by more than 1,000 delegates holding their 190th annual meeting in Columbia also points out that “Southern Baptists and other evangelical Christians have been portrayed by the media as intolerant or dangerous because of our commitment to Christ and our belief in Biblical precepts.” But the resolution also calls on Christians “to uphold the biblical standard of human sexuality…

Shari’ah Creeps into Outer Space

By Hussein Rashid

…ms are bringing shari’ah into America by advocating for equal rights for homosexuals, they are attempting to push it out into space. The supposed discovery of arsenic-based life forms is the trigger to activate the nefarious plan of Othman. She will seek to implement shari’ah by showing that women are not forced to be veiled and that girls can become hyper-educated. By planting the seeds of gender intellectual equality, shari’ah will come to our c…

Pope Benedict’s Blind Spot on Holocaust

By Kevin P Spicer

…admits that he “cannot read all the newspapers and meet with an unlimited number of people. But there are, I believe, few people who have as many meetings as I do. Most important of all to me are my meetings with the bishops from all over the world.” It’s doubtful that the bishops today or in the past have provided the Pope with extensive insight on the historical record of Pius XII. Benedict does offer light on who is helping to influence Pius’s…