The deadly attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego did not happen in a vacuum. It is the outcome of years of fearmongering, scapegoating, and dehumanization targeting an entire religious community.
Months into the ceasefire, Israeli officials barred thirty-seven international N.G.O.s. A Doctors Without Borders clinic is carrying on without antibiotics, or even chairs for patients.
Molly Crabapple's inspirational history of the Bund reminded me of the many ways in which the self-styled "Jewish State" is a monument to hatred (of Jews as well as of Palestinians).
But figures allied with the Trump administration have challenged the premise that the U.S. government should be – or was meant to be – separate from religion.
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