https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to Benjamin Netanyahu en https://religiondispatches.org/2024/02/12/meet-bronze-age-zionists-far-right-jews-embracing-fascism-wake-october-7 The US online hard-right isn’t exactly known as the friendliest place for Jews. It’s the place where antisemitic conspiracies thrive and cries of ‘Jews will not replace us’ resound. It’s where the Pittsburgh and Poway synagogue shooters (and many more… Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:47:08 EST Ben Lorber 5e2d253c-8c97-43ba-9cba-d801317b3a91 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/11/19/netanyahus-genocidal-religious-rhetoric-isnt-just-appeal-israeli-right-he-has-another As a horrifying humanitarian crisis unfolds in Palestine/Israel, observers have been alarmed by the Israeli leadership’s deployment of religious rhetoric and colonialist talking points in its response to the Hamas attacks. On October 28th, for example, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu… Sun, 19 Nov 2023 05:43:37 EST Brock Bahler d2acaf09-a698-4579-b4af-e5e0cff6e083 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/10/31/bidens-embrace-victory-culture-victory-toxic-white-christianity Every new day reveals fresh hints of Joe Biden’s wish to be remembered as a winning war president, as he contests rising Chinese power on every front while also arming Zelensky and Netanyahu to the teeth and backing their wars… Tue, 31 Oct 2023 04:26:37 EDT Peter Laarman 2e40d78a-411e-4307-ba64-905fe7f90c33 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/10/19/right-deeply-divided-over-support-israel-though-its-not-about-justice-palestinians On October 7, the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, which included the horrific murder of hundreds of Israeli civilians. In response, Israel launched an unprecedented wave of deadly bombardment across the Gaza Strip, murdering thousands… Thu, 19 Oct 2023 04:00:59 EDT Ben Lorber 48696a4b-5a98-479a-8977-fe594d31061a https://religiondispatches.org/2023/10/18/israel-hamas-not-religious-war-and-not-your-rapture Hamas’ October 7 attack was monstrous. Hundreds killed at a music f e stival along with hundreds more in their homes or on the streets. Women and children butchered on a kibbutz in the south. In response Israel launched a… Wed, 18 Oct 2023 04:07:17 EDT Thomas Lecaque 3646e6eb-28f8-4e85-9943-85e42a08796a https://religiondispatches.org/2023/10/11/story-post-holocaust-group-seeking-revenge-against-nazis-part-story-israel-itself “I think the village of Huwara needs to be wiped out. I think the state of Israel should do it,” said Israel’s Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, earlier this year. Though shocking to many at the time, it now seems like… Wed, 11 Oct 2023 05:19:57 EDT Shane Burley f4fea449-bb00-4e8a-a39d-e2d2f986d7dc https://religiondispatches.org/2023/04/04/many-christian-zionists-israeli-protesters-are-threat-gods-plan Since Prime Minister Netanyahu and his far-right coalition have sought to curtail the powers of the Israeli judiciary, effectively seizing power in perpetuity , Israeli society has erupted into some of the largest sustained protests in its history. The world… Tue, 04 Apr 2023 12:50:45 EDT Aidan Orly 2d6922b5-9958-43c7-97b7-5a4336e7b99e https://religiondispatches.org/2022/11/30/call-it-christian-globalism-reporters-guide-new-apostolic-reformation-part-iii This is the final installment of a three-part series. Read Part I: Christian Right Denialism is More Dangerous Than Ever: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation & Part II: When it Comes to Societal Dominion, the Details Matter… Wed, 30 Nov 2022 03:36:57 EST Frederick Clarkson, André Gagné 96e9c9e6-25ea-40f3-9448-44e8de87b335 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/04/27/why-did-antisemitic-christian-zionist-have-chutzpah-declare-hed-be-leading-holocaust This week, Jews in Israel and around the world will commemorate Yom HaShoah, a Holocaust Remembrance Day that marks a somber time for remembrance and reflection. On Thursday, thousands of Israeli and diaspora Jews and supporters will walk silently from… Wed, 27 Apr 2022 05:35:26 EDT Ben Lorber, Aidan Orly d90e2116-6dd4-4395-8e5b-d93edd3cdb15 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/02/03/rather-attack-amnesty-labeling-israel-apartheid-state-critics-could-address-actual Amnesty International has just released a new, comprehensive report on the situation in Israel/Palestine. Like earlier reports from Human Rights Watch, Yesh Din, and B’Tselem—leading human rights groups documenting Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians along with Palestinian organizations like Al-Haq… Thu, 03 Feb 2022 04:56:37 EST Joshua Shanes 7edff7d7-9287-49e5-9042-7f0b308edf53 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/10/20/savoring-haterade-why-jews-love-dara-horns-people-love-dead-jews I am a Jew. And I am alive. As a scholar of Judaism I spend my days reading, writing, thinking about, and teaching about dead Jews. So I guess I love dead Jews. But I’m not the “people” Dara Horn… Wed, 20 Oct 2021 04:14:01 EDT Shaul Magid cd7170bb-486d-46ac-acd3-eff86e6ccaec https://religiondispatches.org/2021/04/15/battle-antisemitism-definitions-actually-proxy-war-criticism-israel Last month, a global consortium of leading scholars released the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (JDA), the product of a year-long labor to produce a new working definition of antisemitism that builds upon the widely-cited, but nearly as widely critiqued and… Thu, 15 Apr 2021 02:28:50 EDT Joshua Shanes 30b5cf4a-ebfb-4494-8fca-476a204bb8e6 https://religiondispatches.org/2020/02/27/christian-nationalism-was-loser-tuesdays-debate If you’re pondering the question of who won last night’s final Democratic primary debate, one possible answer, depending on your perspective, is secular Americans. Religion, after all, hardly came up in the raucous affair hosted jointly by CBS News and… Thu, 27 Feb 2020 11:32:13 EST Chrissy Stroop 5cad16e2-0305-4fc3-970d-a1c29b191c92 https://religiondispatches.org/2020/01/24/trump-gives-davos-press-credentials-racist-conspiracy-outlet-again One of the many despicable attributes of the Trump administration is its habit of using press credentials to punish critics and reward allies—even when the allies are racist conspiracy theorists. TruNews, a paranoid Christian-right website run by pastor, “citizen reporter,”… Fri, 24 Jan 2020 03:48:55 EST Gordon Haber e416390e-3e6e-47a2-892c-ca16017758ab https://religiondispatches.org/2019/10/10/keep-jews-interesting-its-time-stop-being-defined-anti-semitism The recent publication of Bari Weiss’ new book on anti-Semitism and “bedbug-gate” have emphasized the troubling place the Jewish community has found itself in, embodied by Jewish historian Arthur Hertzberg’s proclamation that “The only thing more dangerous for Jews than anti-Semitism is no anti-Semitism.” Thu, 10 Oct 2019 12:12:20 EDT Shaul Magid 876a9212-defb-4422-a2ee-078c32e5a935 https://religiondispatches.org/2019/09/23/taking-evangelical-support-israel-face-value-terrible-idea-response Writing under a pseudonym in the Forward, a Christian lawyer dismissed the apocalyptic component of Christian Zionism urging readers to take evangelicals’ love for Jews at face value. But Chrissy Stroop, who was raised in fundamentalism, calls this gaslighting. Mon, 23 Sep 2019 01:18:32 EDT Chrissy Stroop 11ee4e7f-a8f0-49bd-89a0-e72abead4e3f https://religiondispatches.org/2019/03/27/recent-debates-highlight-democrats-antisemitism-blind-spot-its-not-what-you-think Though Democrats have recently sought to condemn antisemitism, by defining it solely in the context of Israel they ironically force American Jews into an impossible situation. Wed, 27 Mar 2019 04:29:31 EDT Nylah Burton 960bf59d-1bfe-4fae-a5a2-5bcc10cfa655 https://religiondispatches.org/2019/02/14/if-not-aipac-what-ilhan-omar-should-have-said I hope Rep. Omar is able to move forward after this unfortunate, second charge of anti-Semitism; to do less social media and more of what she was elected to do: legislate. Thu, 14 Feb 2019 04:54:12 EST Haroon Moghul 5a41e791-031b-4524-a311-55268cef4705 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/11/07/high-jewish-voter-turnout-and-they-dont-trump Eighty-five percent of American Jews vote. In this fraught moment of broad political tensions and razor-thin margins, those votes become even more important. Wed, 07 Nov 2018 03:04:03 EST Gordon Haber 5583bd3c-e6c8-4098-9f73-5d4e3d860a8f https://religiondispatches.org/2016/10/26/king-jesus-what-religious-right-sees-trump Trump is not a Christian warrior; he is, however, a warrior for Christ. Wed, 26 Oct 2016 04:02:03 EDT Roger Friedland a6c62afd-b771-4033-b9c9-c22fdd0fd840 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/09/01/maybe-trump-should-pray-about-his-problems-religious-voters Romney won white Catholics by 19 points; Trump’s losing them by 3. Thu, 01 Sep 2016 09:40:56 EDT Daniel Schultz c83b8d9a-ed3e-461c-881f-8fa46bf28df7 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/31/russia-expels-gay-american-pastor-epidemic-anti-lgbt-violence-brazil-and-more-global Alturi profiles human rights activist Neela Ghoshal, senior researcher for the LGBT rights program at Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch called on US President Barack Obama to address anti-LGBT discrimination along with laws curtailing free speech and peaceful assembly… Sun, 31 Jul 2016 08:07:36 EDT Peter Montgomery a0ad5ae0-adf4-499f-9559-ccd0b6339824 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/05/searching-vain-pure-elie-wiesel When they read Elie Wiesel’s Night, my Bible-belt students are regularly caught up short. They are flummoxed by the events about which Wiesel wrote; by the very fact that the Holocaust took place. But they are just as flummoxed by… Tue, 05 Jul 2016 03:34:33 EDT Martin Kavka 7a34f0ed-5a83-412f-9635-7fcd6b82e106 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/06/02/tribal-trouble-changing-nature-american-jews-relationship-israel-and-question-jewish If the adage is correct that “nationalism is an extension of egoism” then national “unity” may be nationalism’s superego. Of late there has emerged a cottage industry regarding Jewish unity. The reason is obvious; Jewish unity is in a state… Thu, 02 Jun 2016 09:00:22 EDT Shaul Magid 9b76661e-8b95-443f-89a9-cbfff6f2b6dc https://religiondispatches.org/2015/11/16/tweeting-isis-attacks-lesson-not-learning-lesson After Friday’s horrific attacks on Paris, France, leaving 129 dead, hundreds wounded, a nation traumatized, and a world shocked, we are of course asking: What do we do now? But, of course, we’ve been here before. We overthrew the Taliban… Mon, 16 Nov 2015 05:05:07 EST Haroon Moghul c9fb7e15-e20b-4747-bf81-3d6411b1106b