Since the mid-twentieth century, church teachings have moved in a decidedly “pro-Jewish” direction. Jews are no longer blamed for deicide, Jesus’s Jewishness is emphasized, and Christianity’s Jewish roots are increasingly explored. Pope Francis has called antisemitism un-Christian and has urged followers to fight it. He has also told Catholics to …
Read More »Into the Fray: It’s Arab enmity – not Arab ethnicity
Netanyahu’s remark that Arabs were being bused ‘in droves’ to polls by foreign-funded NGOs may have been abrasive and inelegant, but is was neither racist nor invalid. Zionism is nothing more – but also nothing less – than the Jewish people’s sense of origin and destination in the land linked …
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