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Following Republican Playbook, German Conservatism Breaks the Post-WWII Taboo

By Annika Brockschmidt

…tely fabricated. Contrary to this alleged crime wave in outdoor pools, the number of assaults had actually gone down compared to previous years. Merz called the Green Party the CDU’s “main enemy” after the AfD won their first ever district council seat earlier this summer, blaming the AfD victory on the center-left national government coalition and has since referred to his CDU party as “alternative for Germany with substance” (AfD stands for “alt…

What Role Should Religion Play in the Public Square? — A Black Christian and a Black Secular Humanist Debate and Discuss

By Brad R. Braxton and Anthony B. Pinn

…t reasonable, on the other hand, to ask that religious people refrain from using their own language and codes to shape the public? In this excerpt from their book-length conversation, Pinn and Braxton each make a compelling case. BRAXTON: Hatred and violence batter every part of the globe. Economic downturns constantly threaten the security of families. The COVID-19 pandemic, cancer, and diabetes continue to send people prematurely to the cemetery…

The Story of a Post-Holocaust Group Seeking Revenge Against Nazis is Part of the Story of Israel Itself

By Shane Burley

…i society. But they carried those experiences into agencies like Mossad, a number of whose early agents were Nakam members. Other Nokmim led Jewish forces against Palestinians in the nakba, the disaster and expulsion of Arabs that adjoined Israel’s foundation. Kovner became a propaganda officer, writing poems that chastised Jewish troops for the emotional strife many felt when engaging in war crimes against Arabs and for retreating when victory be…

Still from the set of “The Exorcist: Believer" shows six people surrounding a bound, possessed girl all attempting to exorcise the demon.

Ecumenical ‘Exorcist’ Sequel Reflects Profound Cultural Changes Since the Catholic Original

By Joseph Laycock

…aving two families and their neighbors to cobble together an ad hoc ritual using whatever spiritual traditions they’re familiar with. One consequence of Green’s choice is that audiences get a less patriarchal exorcism in which a lay Catholic woman and a female root worker pit their collective wisdom against a demon. But many horror critics disliked Green’s twist on the classic story, with some questioning whether it’s possible to tell a good Exorc…

Flagship Biblical Studies Group Faces Bitter Divide Over Statements on Israel/Palestine

By Seth Sanders

…at the binary language: “But frankly, that any of them would sign a letter using language like ‘pure evil’ and ‘without recourse to historical complexities’ and present such a blatant mis/over-reading of the SBL statement they’re referring to floors me. When George W. Bush used this kind of language, my impression…was that academics nearly universally laughed at him, and yet this letter is signed by a virtual majority of Hebrew Bible’s senior scho…

War Criminal Henry Kissinger, First Jewish Secretary of State, Had a Lengthy History of Antisemitism

By Noah Berlatsky

…e,” deliberately distanced himself from other Jewish people, and he did so using antisemitic rhetoric. Twitter’s community notes even added context to the ADL’s tweet, noting that it’s misleading and that: “Nixon’s WH Counsel recalls Kissinger assuaging Nixon’s rants about ‘dirty rotten’ ‘Jewish traitors’ protesting Vietnam by assuring him he was one of the ‘good ones’.” [Editor’s note: the context note has since been removed, likely due to a chan…

Nikki Haley’s Slavery Omission Typifies the GOP’s Tragic Pact with White Supremacy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…aley. When Haley suggested that the Civil War was about “economic freedom”—using “States’ Rights” rhetoric—she was only the latest in a long line of Republican politicians, from Goldwater to Nixon to Ronald Reagan himself—to use pseudo-libertarian, ahistorical rhetoric to pander to voters animated by racial grievances. The Republican Party’s path is historian Heather Cox Richardson’s argument in How the South Won the Civil War, that while the Sout…

As Far-Right Surges in US and Germany Debate Rages Over Disqualification of Those Who Would Destroy Democracy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…t sufficiently protected democracy and the rule of law. To counter this, a number of protective mechanisms were written into the Basic Law of the Federal Republic. One of these is the possibility of banning political parties. Too often, it’s assumed that fascists and authoritarians mostly come to power via coup, violently overthrowing the existing political order. Such examples do exist, but they are not the norm. This is why the core argument aga…

The Desire to Annihilate Gaza Wasn’t Born on 10/7 — It’s Part of a Long Tradition that Includes 19th Century Travel Writing

By Adam Yaghi

…lonialist Christian historiography to appropriate Palestinian geography by using Biblically-defined boundaries. His 1899 book, which shares a title with Keith’s, The Land of Israel: A Text Book on the Physical and Historical Geography of the Holy Land Embodying the Results of Recent Research, renamed modern geography and urban locations, erasing modern Palestinians, and inscribing Jews as the exclusive tenured tenants. Palestine was, according to…

White Nationalist Mottos, the Fate of Jews in the New Christian State, and ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Humor — Day 2 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…an appeal to heaven—excuse me, is that phrase ok? His quip was met with rousing applause. If virtue is only private, Wilson reasons, perhaps Alito’s wife, “should have only flown that phrase in the flagpole of her heart—but hearts don’t have flagpoles, only the public square does…if we dont fly the appeal to heaven flag,” he said, using a slur for transgender people, “we’ll fly the t****y flag.” Wilson closed with a recommendation that, if he win…