Tag: Islamophobia

In Britain, Shockwaves From Israel-Hamas War Are Jolting Domestic Politics

Inside Britain’s Parliament, lawmakers jeered, booed, and stormed out of the House of Commons to protest the speaker’s handling of a vote calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. Outside, a crowd of pro-Palestinian demonstrators projected the slogan, “From the river to the sea,” on to the facade of Big Ben, drawing denunciations from those who […]

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Republicans Are Going Beserk Over Something Ilhan Omar Never Actually Said

Targeting Carroll specifically is what ultimately landed Trump in legal trouble, Kaplan explained. In her deposition, Carroll alleged she had also been assaulted by television executive Les Moonves in Los Angeles in the mid-1990s. In 2018, multiple other women accused Moonves of sexual assault. He stepped down as CEO of CBS and denied all of […]

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Republicans Move to Punish Ilhan Omar for Something She Never Said

Targeting Carroll specifically is what ultimately landed Trump in legal trouble, Kaplan explained. In her deposition, Carroll alleged she had also been assaulted by television executive Les Moonves in Los Angeles in the mid-1990s. In 2018, multiple other women accused Moonves of sexual assault. He stepped down as CEO of CBS and denied all of […]

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Ex Obama Adviser Says Killing 4,000 Palestinian Children ‘Wasn’t Enough’

Stuart Seldowitz seen in an image (L) from the Gotham Government Relations website.  A lobbying group has cut ties with an ex-adviser to former President Barack Obama after videos surfaced that show the man making Islamophobic comments and threats to a food cart employee in New York City.  The videos, posted on X (formerly Twitter) by […]

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Mike Johnson Is Not Your Run-of-the-Mill Christian Zionist

However, he added, abstraction is hardly unique to Christian Zionism. Israeli leftist Ksenia Svetlova made a similar point in this publication when she decried Western liberals who insist on reading Hamas militants as “freedom fighters.” One might also consider the way that many on the left code Israelis as white European when so many are […]

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Our Leaders’ Shameful Response to Islamophobia’s Fatal Resurgence

Bush’s post-9/11 mosque visit seems rather quaint today, especially given the rest of his presidency would end up inflaming Islamophobia and bigotry, and pave the way for Trump’s unique brand of hostility years later. But our political leaders are falling well short of even Bush’s standard at the moment. Trump has just called for expelling […]

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