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Right-sizing the Threat of Political Violence in the 2024 Election — And After
Untold gigabytes of virtual ink have been spilled covering the story of the 2024 presidential campaign, including the ...
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The ADL is Correct that Antisemitism is Rising — But the Main (and Most Dangerous) Source Isn’t the Left, It’s Always Been the Right
Defamation League’s (ADL) annual Antisemitism Audit was released in April, its claim of a 140% rise in antisemitic incidents ...
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The ‘Jezebel Spirit’ Isn’t (Just) Bible-Based Misogyny, it’s a Literal Demon — So What Happens When They ‘Stop Tolerating’ It?
Most people, to the extent that they heard about it at all, probably interpreted the connection between Jezebel and Kamala ...
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With So Many Christians Again Supporting Trump, Pundits and Fellow Christians Refuse to Entertain the Simplest Explanation
If the polls are right, then the majority of Christian voters will cast their lot with Donald Trump in 2024. For ...
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New Doc Claiming Columbus was Jewish May Have Some Accuracy Issues — But There’s a Far Bigger Issue We Need to Reckon With
Speculations that Italian Americans’ problematic hero, Christopher Columbus, might have actually been Jewish were all over ...
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A Match Made in Hell: Demons Have Become a Serious Force in US Politics — But We’ve Seen This Show Before
Since Donald Trump began campaigning, demons have been a small but growing part of political news. You may remember such ...
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Heritage Foundation’s Christian Nationalist ‘Project Esther’ Won’t Combat Antisemitism — But it Will Weaponize Jews
On the anniversary of October 7, the Heritage Foundation released Project Esther: A National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism. The 33-page document calls on the federal government to use ...
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Michael E. Heyes
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Ben Lorber
In right-wing circles, theories about cultural Marxism in the era of Trumpism come entangled with other anti-Semitic theories, often arguing that George Soros and a shadowy “globalist” cabal are ...