genocide

Israel Beats American Labor Organizer Chris Smalls (and Only Chris Smalls) in Latest Attempt to Keep Starving Gaza

Mary Rambaran-Olm — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 03:46:19 EDT

Christian Smalls, a Black labor organizer who took on Amazon and won, just risked his life trying to bring aid to Gaza. He was not met with headlines but with fists. https://youtu.be/cS9ppIkPJJI Smalls joined the Freedom Flotilla on the Handala…

Francis, the Roman Catholic Church's First Latin American Pope, Leaves Behind a Complicated Legacy

Megan Goodwin — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 03:47:49 EDT

As you probably know by now, Pope Francis has died. (Mere hours after meeting with—how is this real life—US Vice President James Donald Bowman, aka James David Hamel, who prefers to be called JD Vance .) We’ll be offering more…

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

Noah Berlatsky — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 12:31:44 EST

Henry Kissinger, war criminal, opponent of democracy, and architect of genocide, died this week. Depressingly, though not a surprise, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) rushed to praise him, tweeting that he was a “towering intellect… helped shape American foreign policy”—all of…

With 'Vermin' Remark Trump Crosses Fully into Nazi Territory

Robert P. Jones — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 01:27:55 EST

One of the most dangerous things about Donald Trump is the way he has normalized hate speech. The venom and vitriol come so often that even when it is reported, its extremism fails to register with a fatigued and desensitized…

Marjorie Taylor Greene's Genocide Rhetoric Creates a Permission Structure for the Right — But Permission to do What?

Annika Brockschmidt — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 04:17:51 EDT

Even for her, it was a chilling statement. “We’re all targets now though, for daring to push back against the regime,” Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed at a Trump rally in Michigan last Saturday. This is not the first time she…

Claiming That 'We Birthed a Nation From Nothing' CNN's Rick Santorum Gives a Master Class in Christian Nationalism: An Open Letter to CNN

Andrew L. Seidel — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 11:19:26 EDT

Dear CNN, Many questioned your decision to hire Rick Santorum as a senior political commentator back in January 2017. Not because he’s a conservative—diversity of opinion can be valuable—but because he’s a bigot. His bigotry toward LGBTQ people was already…

In "The Promise," A Reminder That U.S. Apathy to Genocide Endures

Hussein Rashid — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 02:41:21 EDT

Today, after our invasion of Iraq led to the creation of Daesh, and after our silence in the face of murderous actions emboldened the Asad regime, we are intimately linked to the death of Syrians.

Punks vs. Monks: Rockers Speak Out Against Genocide in Myanmar

M. Sophia Newman — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 11:24:44 EDT

Punk rockers in Myanmar are gaining international attention for publicly denouncing Buddhist monks’ genocidal treatment of Muslim minorities.

If Muslims Stop Drinking Will They Become Violent?

Haroon Moghul — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:54:43 EDT

A recent article in the Washington Post recycles well-worn myths about religiosity and Islam. Is this the best we can do?

You’re Either Committing Ethnic Cleansing or You’re Not

Haroon Moghul — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:52:13 EDT

While a valiant effort at a compassionate depiction of individuals swept up in the horror of the Bosnian Genocide, Angelina Jolie’s main character, Danijel, simply ends up humanizing genocide.

Evidence of Mass Graves in Sudan?

Frederick Clarkson — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:50:11 EST

RD recently reported that Sudanese Anglican Bishop Andudu Adam Elnail thought that if he not been in the U.S. for medical treatment, he might now be in a mass grave back home. A dramatic new report may prove him right.

The Anglican and the Evangelicals: Insights from the Sudanese Genocide

Frederick Clarkson — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 01:14:45 EDT

When evangelical activist Brad Phillips told senior members of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa about what he had seen and heard during a recent trip to South Kordofan, Sudan, they called an emergency hearing.

U.S. Envoy Minimizes Mounting Evidence of Mass Graves in Sudan

Frederick Clarkson — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:49:55 EDT

Amidst escalating calls for intervention from senior UN staff, the International Federation of the Red Cross, and Red Crescent, and widely reported satellite photos of what appear to be mass graves, it looked like the world might be poised to intervene before the U.S. doused those hopes.

“We Found My Father, Except for His Hand”

Haroon Moghul — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:04:18 EDT

A dispatch from Sarajevo, part four in a travelogue.

The Bleeding Heart of Muslim Europe

Haroon Moghul — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:33:38 EDT

What to expect in Sarajevo.

Crisis in Sudan: ‘If the World Stands Idly By This Time, They Will Bring Genocide’

Frederick Clarkson — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 03:25:39 EDT

If Bishop Andudu of Kadugli, Sudan had not been in Denver in June, he might be in a mass grave right now. In an interview with RD the bishop calls for international intervention to prevent the government’s “final solution” while emphasizing that this is not a war between Muslims and Christians.

Confronting the Abusive Legacy of Native American Boarding Schools

Philip Arnold — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:55:36 EST

Reverend Annett noticed that in spite of the large Native American population on Vancouver Island, none of them attended his church.

How Should We Speak of Unspeakable Evil?

Louis A. Ruprecht — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:03:33 EDT

Do we turn to the wrong institutions when we go to courts of law to attempt to enact forgiveness or reconciliation for genocide?

The “G-Word”: Genocide’s Slippery Nature

Tom Hogan — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:05:47 EDT

Once the camps are built and the trains are running—once the machetes have been distributed and the hate radio is broadcasting—it’s too late to respond. A Thanksgiving report on the state of our (un)ethical response to genocide.

The Double Life of the War Criminal

Laurie Patton — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:14:20 EDT

Radovan Karadzic has been hiding in plain sight as a New Age healer…

Giving Thanks to Genocide

Jonathan L. Walton — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:26:17 EST

Kids dress up in pilgrim and Native American costumes and parents protest. There is nothing to be served, they say, by dressing up as a racist stereotype.