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Jul 4, 2026, 10:20 PM

Archaeology of a Libel: How the Genocide Charge Against Israel Emerged

The Rosenstraße memorial in Berlin, which honors the 1943 protests against the deportation of Jews, defaced in August 2024 with the slogans "Jews are committing genocide" and "Free Palestine" (Photo: T. Tarach)

Is Israel committing genocide in Gaza? While experts and legal scholars around the world debate this question, anti-Israel activists and commentators have long since delivered their verdict in a blind reflex. Setting aside potentially legitimate criticism of Israeli policy,...

Yaakov Chaliotis

Jun 28, 2026, 6:03 AM

An Open Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury

You grieved for Palestinian Christians in the Holy Land. I ask you to grieve, with equal honesty, for the Jewish lives that 7 October stole — and to name what truly stands between this land and peace. A response to...

Michael Knighton

Jun 22, 2026, 7:31 AM

Why America Is Absent From Bible Prophecy — and What It Says About Israel

There is a strange silence at the center of biblical prophecy, and once you notice it you cannot un-notice it. The most powerful nation in human history — the United States, with its carrier fleets and reserve currency and...

Michael Knighton

Jun 15, 2026, 4:51 AM

Lebanon Is a Hostage, Not a Foe

A few days ago, in a village in southern Lebanon emptied by months of war, Israeli soldiers came upon a note left behind by a family that had fled north. It did not curse them. It told them, in...

Jun 14, 2026, 5:36 PM

Killing in the Name of God

The science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke suggested that killing in the name of God might be a fairly good definition of insanity. Sounds reasonable. If God created the world, then we are all His creations. And the idea that God...

Jun 13, 2026, 10:18 AM

Religions as Blockchains, Part III

Many branches. One evolving network. The challenge is preserving shared reality through convergence rather than origin. Photo of a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) © Teslaton, 2008. Licensed under CC BY 3.0. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Blockchains as Religions: The Other Side of the Analogy In Part I and Part II of Religions as Blockchains, we explored how religious traditions and blockchain systems mirror each other in structure: genesis events, forks, schisms, competing claims of legitimacy,...

Jun 12, 2026, 4:54 PM

Religions as Blockchains, Part II

Many branches. One living tradition. The challenge is preserving legitimacy, authority, and continuity across generations. Photo of a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) © Teslaton, 2008. Licensed under CC BY 3.0. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Beyond the God Fork: Heresy, Hash Power, and Other Blockchain Lessons About Religion In “Religions as Blockchains, Part I,” we explored how religions resemble blockchains through genesis events, soft forks, hard forks, schisms, and competing claims of legitimacy. But the parallels...

Jun 12, 2026, 5:24 AM

Religions as Blockchains, Part I

One origin. Many branches. The challenge is preserving continuity while adapting to change. Photo of a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) © Teslaton, 2008. Licensed under CC BY 3.0. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

The God Fork: What Blockchain Can Teach Us About Religion At first glance, religion and cryptocurrency appear to have nothing in common. One deals with God, meaning, and tradition. The other deals with digital money, software, and mathematics. Yet beneath the surface,...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jun 10, 2026, 7:57 AM

Dear President Aoun

Dear President Aoun, My name is Jose Lev. I am an American-Israeli scholar, veteran, and member of a people that has buried too many of its sons because leaders mistook delay for wisdom. I write not as an enemy of...

Jun 3, 2026, 4:08 AM

I Am Joseph Your Brother: The Untold Story Behind Nostra Aetate

A dying note smuggled from Auschwitz, an aging Jewish scholar in hiding, and a Pope determined to change history... Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli—later known as Pope John XXIII—was more than a pontiff; he was a bridge-builder in a fractured world. During World...

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