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Oct 6, 2024, 6:05 AM

Connecting Student Campus Protests with Institutions’ Missions and Mandates

For an almost incalculable number of years spanning centuries, and in more modern times, tensions between Arabs and Jews have spilled over into the streets and onto college and university campuses in the United States and throughout the world. In...

Sep 29, 2024, 6:47 AM

Netanyahu’s False Binary of ‘Blessing’ and ‘Cursed’ Nations

In his most recent address before the General Assembly of the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke in binary terms in which he invoked the ancient Jewish prophet Moses: “When I spoke here last year, I said we...

Sep 25, 2024, 9:58 PM

Donald Trump and the Italian Fascist Connection

“Arrogance and self-awareness seldom go hand-in-hand.” M (Judi Dench), “Casino Royale” Directly following Donald Trump’s release from a three-night stay at Walter Reed Hospital to relieve symptoms for contracting the coronavirus in 2020, and after de-boarding the military helicopter, Marine...

Sep 25, 2024, 6:44 AM

Trump & MAGA Check All the Boxes of Fascism

After surviving two apparent assassination attempts, Donald Trump and his running mate, J.D. Vance, are blaming Democrats, specifically Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, for stoking the flames of violence against him by their repeated claims that Trump is a...

Sep 23, 2024, 7:56 AM

Why I Support a Jewish State: Notes of a Reluctant Zionist

Because the Jewish people have never been truly safe in any nation for the long-term, I reluctantly accept and support the need for a Jewish homeland. I would have much preferred to have seen the creation of a Jewish...

Sep 21, 2024, 9:52 PM

Anti-Abortion & Anti-Homosexuality: The White Christian Nationalist Project

The Supreme Court disregarded the issue of precedent (Stare Decisis—a Latin term meaning “let the decision stand”-- when, in 2022, it overturned Roe v. Wade (1973) unraveling the legal right to abortion for nearly the last 50 years in...

Sep 21, 2024, 12:20 AM

Antisemitism: A Longest Hatred of Donald Trump

Former President Donald Trump gave a campaign speech Thursday, September 19, 2024, purportedly on the topic of antisemitism. During his speech, Trump lectured Jews that they must vote for him in the upcoming November presidential sweepstakes, and if they do...

Sep 20, 2024, 12:19 AM

Israeli Government Blinded by Smoke from its Pipe Dreams

This week, the Israeli government, through its military defense and intelligence forces, has seriously degraded Hezbollah forces in Lebanon by planting explosives into their pagers and walkie-talkie systems. Though casualty estimates are not conclusive, dozens of people have been...

Sep 19, 2024, 5:56 AM

Proposals for Peace between Palestinians and Israelis

God’s Intent? Jewish people, Palestinians Not-so distant family, cousins Abraham and Sarah Abraham and Hagar Isaac and Ishmael Through dispersions History separated Seen as the “other” As the enemy Whose God has bestowed the same land Onto which we drop the very blood we share Was God’s intent, rather, for us...

Sep 17, 2024, 12:00 PM

Netanyahu’s West Bank Apartheid

The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court is the treaty that established the International Criminal Court (ICC). As defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in 1998 and going into effect in 2002, the crime...

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About Me

Dr. Warren J. Blumenfeld is the author of God, Guns, Capitalism, and Hypermasculinity: Commentaries on the Culture of Firearms in the United States, Author of The What, The So What, and The Now What of Social Justice Education, Co-Editor of Readings for Diversity and Social Justice.