February 26, 2021 by Melanie Phillips – JNS.org Read on for article This week’s festival of Purim provided Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with an irresistible analogy. Melanie Phillips Purim celebrates the deliverance of the Jews of ancient Persia by Mordechai and Esther—two Jews who thwarted the genocidal intentions of the Persian prime minister Haman […]
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Jehu, Jericho, and Haman’s Gallows: Trump’s Religious-Right Allies Turned To Violent Bible Stories
February 13th, 2021 Awake Goy
Journalists and scholars are increasingly taking note of the role that Christian nationalist ideology and religious-right rhetoric played in the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, sharing information and analysis on Twitter with the hashtag #capitolsiegereligion. Right Wing Watch has extensively documented violent rhetoric from religious-right leaders and at religious-right events both before and after the Nov. 3 election. Many of former President Donald Trump’s religious-right […]