Why did this powerful church group struggle to denounce white supremacy? By Daniel José Camacho, Saturday 17 June 2017 Condemning white supremacy and the alt-right movement shouldn’t be hard. But the Southern Baptist Convention – the nation’s largest Protestant denomination– had its doubts about whether to do so this week. During the annual meeting, …
Category: Christianity
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May 17 2017
Fundamentalist religiosity
Why Religious Zionism Is Growing Darker By Tomer Persico, May 16, 2017 5:41 PM At a gathering of religious Zionist public figures two weeks ago, Deputy Knesset Speaker Betzalel Smotrich talked about his diplomatic plan, which he dubbed “The subjugation plan.” The purpose of the plan, he said, was “to erase all Palestinian national …
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Apr 20 2017
Mother of all Hypocrisy
If Trump cares so much about Syrian babies, why is he not condemning the rebels who slaughtered children? By Robert Fisk, Monday 17 April 2017 12:15 BST It was the Mother of all Hypocrisy. Some dead Syrian babies matter, I guess. Other dead Syrian babies don’t matter. One mass murder in Syria two weeks …
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Apr 20 2017
A Heartfelt Apology
A Heartfelt Apology to Haaretz Readers By Gideon Levy, Apr 20, 2017 3:58 PM Dear Orna and Moshe Gan-Zvi, I was saddened to read in Tuesday’s Hebrew edition of Haaretz that you’ve decided to cancel your subscription. I don’t know you, but I will miss you as readers. As someone who is partly responsible …
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Apr 19 2017
Rights are not bestowed by an oppressor
Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel’s Prisons By Marwan_Barghouti, April 16, 2017 HADARIM PRISON, Israel — Having spent the last 15 years in an Israeli prison, I have been both a witness to and a victim of Israel’s illegal system of mass arbitrary arrests and ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners. After exhausting all …
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Apr 12 2017
More than vigilantes?
8 in 11 By Arkansas Times’ The Observer, April 06, 2017 The state of Arkansas is planning on killing eight men soon, one right after the other, in 11 days. They are doing this to punish them for having killed people. The Observer used to be very much a capital punishment believer. But then, …
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Mar 29 2017
Peace will come with justice
The cult of atheist Zionism posing as Judaism By Rich Siegel, January 1, 2012 This essay was first published in Beyond Tribal Loyalties: Personal Stories of Jewish Peace Activists, edited by Avigail Abarbanel (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012), used with permission. I consider myself a cult survivor. I was raised in the cult of …
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