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Ilan Benattar

Ilan Benattar is a freelance writer and a doctoral student in the Joint Program in Hebrew and Judaic Studies and History at NYU. He earned an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies at CUNY Graduate Center and a B.A. in History and Arabic Studies at Binghamton University.

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Religion Dispatches
The striking dissonance between a light-hearted ice cream company and a dire political situation have revealed the inadequacy of half-measures and rhetorical tap dancing
Over roughly the past decade, the coming intellectual exhaustion of “anti-Occupation, pro two-states” liberal Zionism in America has been repeatedly prophesied. Out of step with the material realities…
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Religion Dispatches
The tenure of Pope Francis has been marked by his support for a host of causes more closely associated with the political left, including climate change , greater regulation of capitalism , and the…
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