Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
The embassy ceremony in Jerusalem embodied the merging of the cynical, ideological, and eschatological as well as Islamophobia (orientalism), Zionism, and antisemitism.
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For Palestinians, the loss is real and sustained, mostly spoken of privately, like a wound you would not like to expose openly.
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It is a harsh and bitter irony that the holiest sites of the Abrahamic faiths are either abodes of exclusivism or of strife and conflict.
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Christian Zionists justify America’s myth of sacrificial violence, enabling President Trump’s efforts to bend the world to his will.
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Jerusalem features in diverging Palestinian discourses of territorial inclusivity versus religiously-based exclusion in the context of Israel’s military, settler, and structural violence.
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Trump and Pence may think they crafted a heartwarming Jerusalem photo op for US evangelicals, but a closer look reveals division and demographic shifts.
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The city that speaks its fragmentation and divide so clearly and loudly cannot be forced into coherence because “cities” do not cohere. Only people do.
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In the real world, west Jerusalem is the capital of Israel; east Jerusalem is a city in waiting. Jerusalem the holy city is in exile.
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When a plant or animal disappears, we expect the entire ecosystem to be impacted. We often forget that human communities form the same deep relationships.
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