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Identity protection left most of this group outside the places where knowledge and credentials came from—including all identities because most African Americans did not benefit from being “protected.”

What Assmann calls ‘revolutionary monotheism’ and distinguishes from polytheism and ‘evolutionary monotheism’ (where ‘all gods are one’) had appeared with the theologization of history or historia sacra in the Judeo-Christian tradition. This historical vision challenged the polytheistic idea of the world suffused with divinity with one which is mer

Playing up the role of organization and religiosity in particular events,

Anti-Semites usually think that Jews are very important. Anti-Semites imagine that the Jews control the world, or the banking system, or at least the media, and that they are to blame for everything from global warming to the 9/11 attacks. Such anti-Semitic paranoia is as ludicrous as Jewish megalomania. Jews may be a very interesting people, but w

IN the general decay of civilization that came about during the incessant wars of the sixth and succeeding centuries, it was above all the Church that preserved whatever survived of the culture of ancient Rome.

The consequent claim, namely, that Zionism is the “monster” that fuels antisemitism, holds the Jews themselves accountable for prejudice against them. This recasting of Zionism as a causal factor of antisemitism, rather than an authentic Jewish response to it, is a uniquely leftist contribution to antisemitic doctrine. It is, moreover, intimately l

A searing example from religious history is the story of Giordano Bruno, an Italian free-thinker who anticipated many of the ideas of modern science, and in the process clearly contradicted a literalist reading of the creation narrative in the Bible. Arrested by the secret police of the Roman Catholic Church, known as the ‘Holy Office’, he was put