Tikkun Daily Blog Archive (https://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/category/politics/page/79/)
Posts about politics and social change, from a spiritual progressive perspective
The mobilization of urban grassroots challenges the image of the overly professionalized and advocacy-oriented NGOs as the main civil society actors in post-Socialist countries. So, what is the state of these movements?
What kinds of messages are we sending our youth? Do we truly understand our own complicity in the bullying we see in our schools? Unless and until we grapple with the ways in which our society promotes and gives justification to such bullying, we will never truly solve these problems.
Hate disguised as free speech is a particularly ugly thing. Google Maps labeling the White House as N****r House is no less disgusting as a French magazine drawing the Prophet Muhammad in a stereotypical or untrue sketch. As I see the intolerance among us grow and ultimately divide us, I fear for the world we will leave our children and grandchildren in. Instead of learning to live in peace and love, we still think of ourselves as Muslims, Jews, Christians, white, black, brown, Israeli, Palestinian.
Blind and exclusive, American exceptionalism is simply nationalism as the rationale that all imperial powers use to justify their military adventures.
The highlights of the Network of Spiritual Progressives in May is the Politics of Love & Justice Global Telesummit, May 19th-21st. Plus, many new NSP chapters are forming now!
In condemning Dzhokar Tsarnaev to death, we would do well to remember Cain and Abel. Even after murdering his brother, Cain is shown unthinkable mercy and protection from God.
What does it mean, deeply and fully, for the People of Israel, as well as the State of Israel, to be named “Yisrael,” or “Godwrestlers”? Why does the Torah repeat so many times the command, “Treat strangers with justice and love, for you were strangers in the Narrow Land”? What are the relationships among love, admiration, and idolatry directed toward the State?
Breaking the Silence has been attacked for not producing a real work of journalism. However, its intimate report on the fighting in Gaza is not an act of journalism. It is a moment of activism by (mostly) Israeli Jews who demand that Israelis face the unjust in order to create a just society.
The GOP’s philosophy of an unrestricted free market system increases the size and magnitude of mega global corporations that gobble up small and emerging entrepreneurs. It attempts to deny basic human and civil rights to LGBT people, rights that are routinely accorded to heterosexual people. How is this a “pro-life” party?
Israel is well-sell served by the strengths and assets of Ethiopian Israelis, not least among these values a sense of community around food and intense devotion to Judaism.