Bezazel Smotrich is one of political leaders of Israel’s Messianic far-right. But he is also a shrewd administrator executing a biblical “decisive plan” of ethnic […]
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The Long Arm of Religious Intolerance: Where the Inquisition was Strongest, Poverty and Mistrust Still Prevail
By Jordi Vidal-Robert, Hans-Joachim Voth, and Mauricio Drelichman | – From Imperial Rome to the Crusades, to modern North Korea or the treatment of Rohingya […]
No Santa Claus for Christians of Lebanon, Syria or Palestine this Year as US Piles on With Sanctions or Neglect
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Why is America imposing hardships on the Christians of the Middle East? Xinhua’s reporter visited Syria and found that the […]
A Few Magnificent Things That Happened in 2021
By Peter Certo | – ( Otherwords.org) – It would be easy to survey the end of 2021 and see another year in wreckage. There’s […]
Keep it in the Ground: We can’t limit Global Heating to Safe Levels unless We Ban all new Oil and Gas Fields
By David Waltham | – As a professor of geophysics, I have spent 36 years training young geologists destined to work in the fossil fuel […]
The Nativity, Jesus and Mary in Paintings of the Muslim Mughal Court of India
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Here’s a Christmas entry. The Mughal dynasty, originating in what is now Uzbekistan, ruled India from 1526 until the 18th […]
Will the US ‘Combating Islamophobia Act’ signal a Change towards hate Crime in America?
( Middle East Monitor) – The result of a vote in the US House of Representatives on 14 December may signal a change in Washington’s […]
2021: a grim year for Free Speech as hundreds of Journalists are arrested in an increasingly authoritarian World
By Dina Matar | – Hundreds of journalists killed or arrested, rising numbers of female media workers targeted, floods of misinformation and hate speech and […]
Why our Democracy is Ailing: Another Grim winter for our Unmasked, Unvaccinated, Disputatious, Confrontational, Conspiratorial, and disturbed Country
( Tomdispatch.com) – Whether the pandemic that’s swept the world started from a bat or not, as 2021 ends, I think it’s safe to say […]
Israeli Archeologists find Christian Ring with Image of Christ as Shepherd in Shipwreck from era of Constantine
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A marine unit of the Israel Antiquities Authority diving off the ruins of the ancient city of Caesarea Maritima has […]
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