As a longtime professor of religious studies and Middle Eastern history as well as an Iranian Jew, I wasn’t surprised certain Middle Eastern ethnicities are completely absent from the draft California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum.
Those who defend Farrakhan on the grounds that NOI helps underserved black communities across America and empowers African-Americans should know that one cannot empower one group by denigrating another.
If we are serious about rebuilding trust and transparency in our government and our democracy, fighting antisemitism and hate, and preventing the spread of misinformation and lies, then we must insist there is no place for QAnon in America or for QAnon followers to gain a foothold beyond the societal fringe.
Whatever one’s thoughts about politics today, America is not lurching towards Nazism or Bolshevism. To suggest otherwise is to misunderstand, at a fundamental level, the nature of these totalitarian ideologies and their legacies.
French legislators, former Ministers, intellectuals and members of civil society join in an open letter, published in Le Figaro, to President Macron on France's policy towards Lebanon and Hezbollah.