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Yerushalmi, National Review, and a Conservative Fight Over Shari’ah

By Sarah Posner

…eart of his efforts was to bring American-style conservatism to “socialist Israel:” “Israel is a country that was founded on statism, socialism and collectivism,” said David Yerushalmi, chairman and chief executive officer of the IEDC, which is backed by more than two dozen prominent U.S. Jewish corporate investors. “What we are trying to do here is revolutionary.” A former Los Angeles-based real estate developer, Yerushalmi preaches a philosophy…

Palestinian Orthodox Christians, Desperate for Help, Have Caught the Attention of Russia

By Katherine Kelaidis

…Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem has made it a target for both the Israeli government and Palestinian Authority. In 2020, an Israeli District Court ruled against the Patriarchate when it attempted to block the sale of other property to Ateret Cohanim. And Hamas has regularly targeted Palestinian Christians for discrimination, including attempting to curb the public celebration of Christian holidays. As Christians, they’ve largely been left…

Mat Staver vs. the Anti-Immigrant Right

By Sarah Posner

…hich was devoted to the special relationship between the United States and Israel, Staver insisted that there is a special “synergy” between the U.S. Latino community and Israel. This focus on Latino support is not a first for Staver; his Freedom Federation, launched in 2010, was focused on bringing more Latinos into the religious right. But he’s facing the very visible anti-immigrant contingent in the conservative movement, the same contingent th…

What Jerusalem Will Obama See?

By Sarah Posner

…, “the only place that Jerusalem remains the eternal, undivided capital of Israel is in the fantasies of the ideological right in Israel and the United States.” In the segment below, we discuss how Jerusalem is being Disney-fied, particularly through the City of David archaeological dig, with the aim of “proving” that Jews have a biblical, historical claim to Jerusalem: The segments during which we discussed continued settlement-building are here,…

Seventh-Day Adventists & Gay ‘Cures’; Legal Victory for Kenyan LGBTs; Political, Religious Leaders Spar on LGBT Issues in UK; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…y base in Israel Monday morning. The plane brought with it several wounded Israelis and premature babies of Israeli parents born to surrogate Nepalese mothers. A separate plane carrying more babies and their parents is slated to arrive later in the day. Omri Lanzet, one of the many new parents who landed in Israel with his newborn son Sunday night told Ynet news that “We had a baby just days old with us, and had no heat. The food and the diapers r…

Some Of My Best Friends Are Nazi Reenactors! And Soft Porn Producers!

By Sarah Posner

…me. . . . Anytime the subject comes up Rich is not shy about his stance on Israel and the importance of it remaining a Jewish state. I know he also traveled to Israel to train with their airborne troops. You have to love this. A Republican who likes to dress as a Nazi enlists his business partner — a Jewish soft porn actor and producer from Hollywood — to defend him on the grounds that he loves Israel and trained with its military (really?!?), th…

Passover with Mohammed: A Jewish Journalist in Yemen

By Sam Kestenbaum

…ttering appears on the bottom of the screen and a yarmulke-clad singer stands on a stage, microphone in hand. When he begins singing, in Arabic, Ahmed knows every word. He sings about chewing qat, about falling in love. “Most of the Jews here went to Israel, but they stayed Yemeni—listen to his accent! He’s a perfect Sana’ani. He sounds just like me.” Ahmed doesn’t want to talk about Israel (he scowls when he hears the word), but this music, it’s…

Predicting the Future of Religion: A Thought Experiment

By Ed Simon

…urope, which has often gone painfully unnoticed by the popular press, will Israel (or the United States) see an influx of Jewish immigrants, altering the situation in Israel in completely unseen ways? Africa will not only see an increase in adherents to Christianity and Islam, it will also (as the Pew study indicates) see an increase in “indigenous” beliefs. The growing power of radical Islam in the form of groups like Boko Haram in Nigeria much a…

Well, the Harris-Trump Debate Happened — Now Enjoy Your Freedom and Choose Wisely

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…stration. What the debate revealed was that, in their effort to be crowned Israel’s Most Staunch Supporter, Trump and Harris argued over who has the more impressive pro-Israel bonafides. Neither candidate answered the question about what they would do to stop the plausible genocide. Both held true to the establishment position because, if there’s an industry that’s running out of cash it’s defense contractors, right? And you may not agree with me….

Tweeting ISIS Attacks: A Lesson in Not Learning a Lesson

By Haroon Moghul

…mes from even more radical Islamic groups, which are far more dangerous to Israel. But can Israel and Palestinians come to terms, or will the ongoing conflict be exploited by ISIL? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed solidarity with France, while making a similar claim on behalf of his people: Israelis know, he said, what the French are going through. So, of course, do Lebanese, Syrians, Iraqis, and many others. Is this shared trau…