Sunday, June 28, 2015

Mark Dankof, antisemitic Lutheran pastor, blames Jews for same-sex marriage

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According to Lutheran minister Mark Dankof, Jews are to blame for the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States. (Why not? We...

I'm going to be at the Jerusalem LGBT Pride March this year!

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I just discovered that the Jerusalem Pride March is happening while I'll be visiting Israel in late July-early August. Here are the de...
Saturday, June 27, 2015

The winding trail to legalizing same-sex marriage

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I never thought this day would come.  In the mid-1970s, when I was first coming out, it wasn't even a dream. In Massachusetts, wher...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

"The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning"

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Some quotes that particularly struck me from this article by Claudia Rankine,  ‘The Condition of Black Life Is One of Mourning’ . I asked...
Saturday, June 20, 2015

Why does the US not remember its history of racism and slavery?

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In the regional archaeological museum: part of the fence from the concentration camp in Witten. I was just thinking about how differen...
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Thursday, June 18, 2015

From Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

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Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each...

The flag of treason and slavery flies high in South Carolina

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The American flag and the South Caroline flag were lowered to half staff at the South Carolina statehouse today, in mourning for the nine A...
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More on Rev'd Pinckney

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This is from the  Pastor's Page  of the Emanuel A.M.E. Church, where Reverend Pinckney was pastor until he was murdered yesterday. Th...

Rev'd Pinckney on the Murder of Walter Scott

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State Sen. Clementa Pinckney speaks at the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia, S.C.,  June 3, 2014.  Grace Beahm/The Post and Courier/AP ...

KKK, "League of the South," "Council of Conservative Citizens" all active in South Carolina

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And for those who will, inevitably, claim the murderer of nine Black people yesterday was "mentally ill" and "not a terrorist...

#Charleston Massacre

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I am so tired of waking up in the morning to the awful news that another evil man has committed mass murder in the United States. I am so ti...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

Methodist Church missionary calls for boycott of Holocaust events

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Good article on  Elder Of Ziyon  about a Methodist missionary, who spent over a decade in Israel and Palestine, who  calls for boycott of Ho...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Accusations of "dual loyalty" against Jews: Bernie Sanders on the Diane Rehm show (with update)

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According to surveys by the ADL (Anti-Defamation League), about 30% of the American public believes that Jews are more loyal to Israel than ...
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Monday, June 01, 2015

In the Forest of History

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Yesterday, I visited the LWL-Museum für Archäologie  (Westphalian State Museum of Archeology) in Herne (not far from Bochum). The oldest fin...