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... that you want that assistance. Write to me at environmental sanity. (Join atwww.spiritualprogressives.org.) ■ Reflections After My Home Was Vandalized: Stop the Assault by Right-W ing Extremists on Israels Critics OU MAY HAVE READ...

.... One of my pet peeves is the pejorative use of the term “religious extremism,” which is usually reserved for terrorists and fundamentalists who use violence to control and oppress. To me, the problem with those labeled “religious extremists” is not their extremism but their understanding of religion...

... reasoned the failure of previous peace deals was due to leaving out religious leaders. Since Muslim extremists would undermine peace deals through terrorism, he thought they should be brought into negotiations from the start. I’m not sure I can agree with Rabbi Froman’s assessment of Hamas being...

... its most vicious, violent, anti-Semitic, and anti-democratic terrorist extremists and for the past several decades has been operating as a pro-democracy and anti-torture voice in the Islamic world. Still, there is certainly no guarantee that the new regime that emerges to replace Mubarak...

... again, a de facto extremist alliance — of Israeli right-wing extremists who wish to rule over the Palestinian people (or push them out of Palestine entirely) and Hamas extremists who wish to eliminate the State of Israel — has managed temporarily to marginalize those on both sides who believe...

... about a Palestinian extremist who sought to blow herself up in the same Israeli hospital that had treated her burns. “What kind of culture leads one to do that?” Cantor asked. “Sadly, it is a culture infused with resentment and hatred. This is the root of the conflict between Israelis...

... Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, and kind of mass-distributed DVD! ■ Extremists of Every Stripe Yes, they’re still with us, as solidarity with the people of over Kashmir can be counted on their own homegrown terrorists. It’s the news reminds us eveiy day. Mumbai as theymoum their to provoke...

... of political moralism in action. This means that each side at­ of difference by cheap moralism leading to superior-inferior think­ tacks the other side via moral condemnation of its extremists, ing, and a concentration on the content of what is said which, whether those extremists are represented...

... proposed New Bottom Line ( www.tikkun.org/covenant ). We urge those who seek a caring society to join our movement. After ISIS bombings in Paris, Beirut, and Baghdad, many of us rightly feel the need to take steps to protect ourselves, our neighbors, and our country from extremist violence. Barring...

...-searching. Too often even Israelis who oppose settlements act towards the lawless and violent culture that has sprung up with equanimity, resignation, a polite “Isn’t it terrible,” or the feeling that extremists must be appeased in order to hold Israeli society together. Here is what Rabbi Ascherman...

...” by the very liberals we need to protect. have threatened to call the Democrats and Obama “socialists” or “communists” or use vile racist slurs? They already did that! StrategizeWith Us June 11-14 in Washington, D.C. Would some right-wing extremists threaten or engage in acts To SUCCESSFULLY SUPPORT...

...: Stop the Assault by Right-W ing Extremists on Israels Critics OU MAY HAVE READ THAT A GROUP OF ZIONIST the ideas and nuanced strategies for Israel’s security from those extremists plastered the outside of my home with who share our pro-Israel/pro...

... LETTERS present a balanced view of the Mid­ equality called for in the letter consti­ dle East conflict that supports mod­ tutes another way of deflecting criti­ Engaging The Other: erates and attacks extremists...

...Stephen Zunes Copyright © 2017 Tikkun magazine 2017 G iven the centuries of persecution against the Jewish people, threats by Arab neighbors to Israel’s very survival in the early days of its independence, and decades of terrorist attacks by Palestinian extremists against Israeli civilians...

... secular and with covered heads, working side by side Palestinian farmers in their olive groves, harvesting and planting and thereby serving as human shields against extremist Settlers, breaks down the sinister stereotype of Jew, for both Arab and Jew alike. Likewise, the weekly demonstrations by Israelis...

... to the Right. This enables extremists in Congress to denounce the overt Nazis and hence look “responsible” while still pursuing a reactionary agenda that is de facto racist and classist in its impact. In between the moments when Trump seems threatening nuclear war, he promises to take actions that will cause...

... are indispensible for understanding current realities. The situation involving ISIS can’t be fully understood without a grasp of the way Western modernity looks irrational and destructive to people Westerners think of as extremist fundamentalists. Theorists of decolonialization have been spelling this out...

... with Middle Eastern extremists, terrorism became an idée fixe . Sociologist Lisa Stampnitzky’s Disciplining Terror reveals that, prior to Munich, terrorism was rarely discussed; when it was—primarily in scholarly journals—it was in the context of state terrorism. Not surprisingly, governing elites...

... shifted to­ happy to join her proposed new coalition government, Livni ward right-wing extremist Netanyahu of Likud, proving once balked at the demands of another potential partner, the religious- again an old Tikkun theory: If people want a militarist, they’ll seek dominated Sephardic Shas party...

.... Judis also shows how Israel resisted pressures to repatriate the Palestinians who had been displaced by the 1948 war. Meanwhile, Menachem Begin is by Daniel Gordis, the Israeli Right’s most effective propagandist. His book profiles Begin—the terrorist extremist who became Israel’s prime minister...