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Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…ime Minister Yitzhak Shamir signed the order for Awad’s deportation to the United States. In the United States Awad persisted in espousing a non-violent approach to the conflict: “I am one of those people who reminds the Palestinians that the Israeli is a human being. And we must see them, as well as ourselves, as human beings. The more you destroy another human being the more you destroy yourself.” During the Second Intifada, which began in Octob…

‘Cult’ Is an Inaccurate, Unhelpful and Dangerous Label for Followers of Trump, QAnon, and 1/6

By Catherine Wessinger

…860s, and the “Ghost Dance” movement among Native Americans in the Western United States in the late nineteenth century. In the 1980s and 1990s in the United States, white people, especially farming families and people living in rural small towns, felt that their way of life and ownership of land and property were threatened by their inability to keep their farms and agriculture-related businesses due to government lending practices; their inabili…

Trump’s “Muslim Ban” A Gift to Terrorists

By Ali Olomi

…kept a Qur’an near his bedside and the other framers were adamant that the United States would be a land of religious liberty for Christians, Jews, and “Mahometan.” The first country to recognize the young independent United States of America was the Muslim sultanate of Morocco. In 1805 Thomas Jefferson even hosted an Iftar dinner in the White House. Muslims participated in the Civil War and ran businesses as far West as Arizona. After the disinte…

Citizens United’s Bad Religion

By Sarah Posner

…m again. Prevailing theme: Obama has visited unprecedented calamity on the United States of America. Subtext: might he be the Antichrist? The opening sequences set the stage. Obama is depicted as a crafty beguiler of mass audiences; he emerges from a plane out of the heavens as thousands swoon, cry, and cheer. He’s smug and self-congratulatory as he misleads his admirers with lofty promises. He was “charismatic,” a “knight in shining armor,” he “r…

The “Shrinking Influence” of Social Conservatives at the United Nations

By Sarah Posner

…a sign “of the shrinking influence of American social conservatives at the United Nations.” Congressional conservatives Trent Franks (R-AZ) and Christopher Smith (R-NJ) — heroes of the religious right — had joined with Muslim countries in an effort to block the IGLHRC’s application. Lynch observed: In previous years, American conservatives like Smith, backed by the White House and the Vatican, exercised enormous influence on social matters at the…

Rape and Richard Mourdock’s Semi-Omnipotent God

By Sarah Sentilles

…se if you know God’s mind, if you can speak for God, then God isn’t the puppeteer, you are—and you’ve turned God into your puppet. The news is full of declarations from deplorable, backward, sexist, religious fanatics who don’t allow girls to go to school. Such appeals to God to justify the mistreatment of women and girls are routinely decried as absurd. But the Republican Platform is also sexist, and although it clearly doesn’t rise to the level…

Pence Amendment not Just About Abortion, but About Thwarting Contraception

By Sarah Posner

…ct of 1970, the latest issue of The Family in America: A Journal of Public Policy explores “the U.S. War on Fertility” with hard-hitting essays that quantify the downside of President Richard Nixon’s attempt to outdo his predecessor’s efforts to usher in the Great Society. Those essays include Robert W. Patterson’s feature linking the ruinous social effects of federal family planning to the failures of the War on Poverty; Jennifer Roback Morse’s e…

Heritage Foundation’s Christian Nationalist ‘Project Esther’ Won’t Combat Antisemitism — But it Will Weaponize Jews

By Ben Lorber

…w internal dissension and generate enough political pressure…to compel the United States government to change its long-standing policy of support for Israel”—along with a “parallel goal of eliminating capitalism and democracy.” Project Esther aims to “disrupt and degrade [HSOs] and deny them the resources they need” within the first two years of a conservative administration. It calls on that administration to deport foreign leaders and members of…

A Pair of Christian Colleges Quietly Cracking Down on LGBTQ Acceptance

By Chrissy Stroop

…lose its accreditation, but that it will be forced to not only enforce the policy currently in place, but to adopt policies and practices that will better protect its LGBTQ students. Green believes that “the policy banning romanticized same-sex relationships could be considered a form of harassment,” and she claims to have documentation placing APU administrators on the record agreeing that the ban does indeed constitute harassment on the basis of…

Christians Support Repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…on’t Pursue policy, the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to the policy – keeping it in place. President Obama, during his campaign for the White House, promised to eventually repeal the policy, but so far, has made no attempt to do so and has allowed the military to expel more than 200 openly gay and lesbian members since taking office. Every study done on the how allowing gays and lesbians to openly serve in the military has found “no…