Jews: Identity matters. De-colonize, re-Indigenize, don’t call yourself – or “Wonder Woman” – White!

The history of Zion and of the Jewish people is a history of repeated persecution, oppression, colonial occupation and exile. As Jews, irrespective of whether we are Ashkenazi, Mizrachi, Sephardi or Beta Yisrael, our history has been inexorably linked to literally thousands of years of occupation, colonialism, and persecution by various colonial powers and our corresponding […]

John Stuart Mill’s Intolerant Faith and the Religion of Liberalism

As ongoing debates around subjects ranging from religious liberty to climate change illustrate, many Western societies are being led in decidedly illiberal directions by self-described liberals. Significant pressures are now brought to bear on those whose views don’t fit the contemporary liberal consensus. Consider, for instance, the epithets heaped upon Benedict XVI when he intimated […]