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Forget the Pope—We Need a New Caliph!

By Haroon Moghul

…ne of the few remaining staunch uncritical allies of America in the Middle East. His main talent seems to be preternatural gift at self-preservation. Also maybe some Americans will think he’s the King of Michael Jordan, and that’ll be a step in the right direction. The Bad: After a surprisingly candid interview with Jeffrey Goldberg for The Atlantic, King Abdullah has laid all his cards on post-Arab Spring table, and managed to insult pretty much…

Why Egypt is America’s Enemy

By Haroon Moghul

…hat we want no more part of their decades of human rights violations, not least because the blowback affects us, too. Whatever severe mistakes the Brotherhood made in power, it was nevertheless meant to be the beginning of a long experiment, and democratic experiments rarely begin brightly. If they are allowed to begin at all. If the Egyptian military can find alternate sources of support, then fine. Let them. Good for them. They had years and yea…

Syria and the American Apocalyptic Imagination: Isaiah 17:1 as “Evidence” of the End

By Jason C. Bivins

…dament, a wince-inducing distraction, a necessary corrective. At the very least, these stock formats for evidence gather up particulars—even the raw experience of suffering and misery so clearly at work now—and make of them details in the service of a not-yet, a “real story” that may come in military action or redemptive return. In each case, though, when it seems that the very possibility of coherence or reasoned discourse is blasted away by the…

Response to Daniel Philpott: the Politics of Religious Freedom

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…licy circles in North America and Europe and by many academics invested in promoting religious freedom). It is, rather, an inescapably context-bound, polyvalent concept unfolding within divergent histories in differing political orders. This realization has led us to pose a number of crucial questions to those engaged in the promotion of religious freedom as a stable and singular human right. These questions, explored in detail in the PoRF volume…

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…

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…

Black Mass Hysteria at Harvard: The Real Story

By Joseph Laycock

…metal shows. But only hours before the black mass was to start, the Middle East pulled out. (There were rumors that influential opponents of the black mass had threatened to send fire marshals and health inspectors if the event went forward.) Finally, a rather ad-hoc version of the black mass took place at the Hong Kong lounge in Harvard Square. As Christopher Robichaud noted, the black mass fiasco points to a larger discussion about religious plu…

Making ‘The Link’: AIPAC’s New Crises

By Matthew Duss

…ey might begin to take a closer look at that relationship, or at the very least demand more cooperation in return for the billions of dollars in aid the United States delivers to Israel every year. In 2006, the Iraq Study Group was excoriated by many on the pro-Israel right for making the linkage argument,stating in its final report (pdf): “The United States cannot achieve its goals in the Middle East unless it deals directly with the Arab-Israeli…

Junior Falwell Unmasked Conservatism; Let’s Thank Him For It

By John Stoehr

…believes the disease outbreak can be blamed on totalitarian regimes in the east. For Cotton, that’s China. For Falwell, that’s North Korea. (While Falwell was on air, the president announced a state of national emergency related to the outbreak, undermining his and Cotton’s search for a scapegoat for his sake.) Falwell’s demagoguery isn’t what we should be thankful for. What we should be thankful for is his confessing, without appearing to know it…

New Poll Reveals Jews May Be Open to Change in Israel Policy

By Benjamin Weiner

…wish base. At the same time, if American Jews are not willing to support the president, they risk a diminishment of their own political capital if he does it anyhow. The J Street data, if nothing else, indicates that there is at least the potential for collaboration between the administration and the Jewish community on a more even-handed American engagement with the Middle East. But we’ll have to wait and see what happens when the Obama doctrine…