... 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...

... and refusing to prevaricate on questions of the environment. It should be you. It should be me. Fierceness and reverence together is the most powerful brew that humans have ever concocted. Sometimes our faith requires us to drink this brew and become extremists. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. famously...

... 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...

... repressive regimes in the hopes of keeping the lid on popular discontent—it simply never works for any length of time. Israel could be safe if it switched from a strategy of domination to a new spirit of generosity toward the Palestinian people, and the United States could be safe from Islamic extremists...

... in the summer of 2014, Hamas also ensured that Israelis would have recent evidence that their fears are justified. Once 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...

... focused on the actions of some rogue Israeli civilians and the threat these extremists posed to Israeli democracy. She told of the “freedom rides” she’d led on segregated Israeli buses and of Reform movement–supported legal campaigns against bus drivers who refused to help women who demanded their rights...

... 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...

... of Israeli society has to engage in soul-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...

...” 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...

... peace in English while rejecting it in Arabic—even though none of them actually understood the language. Terrorist attacks by Abu Nidal, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other extremist Palestinian groups were falsely attributed to the PLO or the PA. Statements by Palestinian leaders have been repeatedly taken...

... 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...

... Westerners think of as extremist fundamentalists. Theorists of decolonialization have been spelling this out for the past two decades. Mignolo seeks to conceptualize a world in which human beings and the natural world are no longer exploited in global capitalism’s quest for endless accumulation. Without...

.... Palestinian members of Black September invaded the Olympic compound and killed nine Israeli athletes. The atrocity marked a turning point: following the West’s first modern confrontation with Middle Eastern extremists, terrorism became an idée fixe . Sociologist Lisa Stampnitzky’s Disciplining Terror...

... 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...

... by the Israeli government rights abusers accountable for their ac­ that have resulted in the rise of extremist You guys are great. Is there something tions is somehow incom patible with groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah in more we can do than tellyou that you...