It’s quite popular these days to declare that Donald Trump’s racist views on immigration are “un-American.” He only wants white people coming here. “Why can’t we have more people from Norway?” He wants to get rid of Latinos and black people. “Do we really need more Haitians?” He devalues, denigrates, and dehumanizes the culture of Africans. […]
Month: January 2018
What happens when an American politician hates Arabs? She survives
The name “Sharon Brannigan” means absolutely nothing to most people, and likely would not have been known beyond this small corridor of Palos Township in Southwest Suburban Chicago. Sharon Brannigan is a flower shop owner turned small-time politician. She had been elected uncontested to the position of Trustee in 2013, as Chairman of Public Services […]
A Palestinian Christian Condemning Evangelism
In Palestine, 16-year-old girls are arrested, terrorized, and abused. Women are compelled to wrestle soldiers to free their screaming, pleading sons. Parents are forced into burying their children who have been killed by the Israeli military. Yet, for as egregious as these acts are, we don’t hear Christians knocking on any doors to raise awareness […]
Taking Hummus Back
In case you haven’t noticed, the Israeli PR machine has this rabid reaction when the rhetoric surrounding Palestine has the slightest twinge of favorability to Palestinian statehood. They’ve been a bit sensitive since 128 countries voted against making their land grab of Jerusalem official. So when James Zogby of the Arab American Institute called Rachel […]