http://https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/jewish-stories-at-our-country-houses Hughenden Manor Hughenden Manor in Buckinghamshire was the former home of Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. He was born into an established Sephardi family but baptized as a child. His novels return repeatedly to the glories of the Jewish past, and he was accused of pursuing a ‘Jewish’ foreign policy because of his support for […]
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Rewriting history, Abbas calls Israel a ‘colonial project’ unrelated to Judaism By DOV LIEBER
Famous picture of Theodor Herzl on the balcony of the Hotel Les Trois Rois in Basel, Switzerland (photo credit: CC-PD-Mark, by Wikigamad, Wikimedia Commons) PALESTINIAN LEADER SETS OUT HIS THOUGHTS ON ZIONISM In speech ignoring Jewish ties to holy land, PA head implies European Jews chose to die in Holocaust rather than go to Palestine; […]
Hunger strike Sukhdev Sandhu on Late Victorian Holocausts – the famines that fed the empire – by Mike Davis Sukhdev Sandhu
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World Mike Davis An estimated 20, 000,000 starved in India due to Britain’s free market demands in the late 19th century. Recording the past can be a tricky business for historians. Prophesying the future is even more hazardous. In 1901, shortly before the […]
Was there an Adam? The Testimony of the Ancient Chinese
A number of the posts I have written have largely rested on the assumption that an ‘Adam’ existed. The posts, ‘The Final Countdown: Embedded in the Beginning’, ‘The Signature of the Virgin Birth’, ‘Corrupted (Part 1) … like Orcs of Middle-Earth’, ‘Corrupted (Part 2) … missing our Target’, ‘Why Would God allow suffering and Death?’ […]
Theology and Bullshit by Jack L. Smith
To be honest, the end of the world has always scared the shit out of me. To be clear, I’m not referring to the threat of nuclear war or massive global climate change that would lead to massive starvation or a meteor striking the Earth and causing massive destruction the likes of which we’ve never […]