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Response to Mirza Inaugural Symposium Essays on the Muslim Question

Series: Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium
Anne Norton
February 15, 2023

There are broad zones of ambiguity and aporia in every culture. And it is in those zones that one can find promise and potential.

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Palestinian Protest: The Palestinian Question and the Global Israeli South (Part 2)

Series: Beyond Jews and Arabs: Israel and its Non-Europeans
Omri Ben Yehuda
March 29, 2022March 30, 2022

The crucial point is that Zionism’s colonization of the Jew himself, a notion at the core of early Zionist discourse, is now enabled by its focus on the distinction between “Jews” and “Arabs,” a binary which makes (Ashkenazi) Jews seem modern and secular.

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Abolishing the Jewish-Arab Divide (Part 1)

Series: Beyond Jews and Arabs: Israel and its Non-Europeans
Omri Ben Yehuda
March 15, 2022March 30, 2022

The “Palestinian cause/question” and the “Jewish question” are both expressions of European modernity, whether in the form of their currency of nationalism or genocidal practices, neither of which are acknowledged in Israel.

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COVID-19, Conspiracies, and Conceptions of Identity

Mary Kate Godfrey, Zulqernain Haider and Sidra Zulfaqar
December 6, 2021December 7, 2021

The sources of conspiracies are not religious beliefs but rather are the reservations and vulnerabilities a community already has towards the government, society, or another distrusted entity.

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Were There—and Can There Be—Arab Jews? (With Afterthoughts on the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism and Palestinian Jews)

Series: Symposium on The Arab and Jewish Questions
Moshe Behar
September 8, 2021September 23, 2021

The political realm must be tightly woven into every historical and contemporary reflection on Arab Jews.

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Weaponizing Antisemitism under the Guise of Care

Series: Trump and Dual Loyalty
Joyce Dalsheim
September 16, 2019September 16, 2019

Suggesting that Jews are disloyal to the modern state of Israel is a form of antisemitism, thinly veiled in terms of caring about Jews.

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Catholic Conceptions of Personhood and Gene Editing

Series: Science and the Human Person 2019 Series
Aline Kalbian
August 9, 2019August 9, 2019

Understanding how the Catholic faith community navigates a path between fear of technological overreach and the pursuit of medical advances allows us to see the complexity of the relationship between human identity and genetic intervention.

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Beyond Aztlán: Latina/o/x Students Let Go of Their Mythic Homeland

Jacqueline Hidalgo
April 11, 2019April 15, 2019

Names are always ambivalent, contingent, and contested, and utopias are always unfinished works-in-progress.

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“Faith-by-Birth”? Community and Religious Identity

Sydney Schlager
October 16, 2018

I am Catholic because my mother lost her driver’s license when I was seventeen.

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Particular and Capacious? A Reflection on Identity and Solidarity

Series: Reexamining Religion and Modernities
Slavica Jakelić
September 7, 2018November 18, 2020

Do particular national experiences and historical locations constrain or broaden one’s ethical commitments?

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