There are two ways to promote or authorize prejudice, the negative and the positive. The negative way is brutally simple. Pick any group and tar them, defame them, or dehumanize them. It could be a racial group, ethnic entity, religious community, or ideological camp. For example, consider all those Hollywood movies where Arabs/Muslims were rarely... Read More

The current crisis unfolding in Gaza reveals a portrait of victimology so characteristic of the global discourse. Each side claims to be David against the other side, the Goliath. It's richly ironic because David, like Samson, made his name in conflicts with the Philistines(often the villains in the Torah), the ancient progenitors of the modern... Read More