Zaid Jilani
By Zaid Jilani
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Opinion France is forcing Muslims to choose between their country and their religion.
This week, French President Emanuel Macron held a virtual meeting with other European leaders to talk about how to confront Islamist extremists who struck multiple European countries over the past month. “I also want to stress that we should never create or fuel discourse in our societies by singling out groups of peoples because of…
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Opinion This election was a rebuke of wokeness
In what came as a surprise to many pundits, President Trump appears to have increased his share of the non-white vote. Sizable numbers of Latino voters in both Florida and Texas helped him fend off the threat of losing those states to the Democrats. One GOP consultant estimated that Trump’s final share of the nonwhite…
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Opinion The ACLU has lost its way
On September 2, the District of Columbia suffered a tragedy as an 18-year-old Black American man named Deon Kay was killed in a police shooting. As news spread of his death, protesters took to the streets to demand accountability. Thanks to a new D.C. law, the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) is required to release…
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Opinion Biden has always sided with Israel. He will be the last Democratic leader to do so.
With ten weeks left until the election, the Joe Biden presidential campaign has affirmed that it intends to strike roughly the same posture on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as President Obama did. In a newly published platform aimed at the Arab American community, Biden’s camp reiterates that while the former vice president will defend the free…
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Opinion CAIR is demanding the NBA stop supporting China’s Muslim genocide. Join them.
If you watch the video footage of blindfolded Uighurs – members of a Muslim minority based in Xinjiang, China – being loaded onto trains for a mass population transfer, you’ll find it hard not to recall similar persecution that has taken place across history, from the ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Muslims during the war in…
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Opinion Most Americans are now self-censoring. We’re regressing.
It’s common to hear anecdotes about friends or family who just don’t feel comfortable discussing politics anymore. It’s not that most of these people are bomb-throwing radicals, but many seem to think the country is so polarized that nothing good can come from voicing their own opinion. A new poll from the Cato Institute and…
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Opinion These are divided times. 4 tips for civil debate on difficult topics.
This article is part of a new series called “On Persuasion.” We asked thought leaders to consider what persuasion means to them. What works in terms of persuading people? Is it moot in 2020? What is the Jewish value of persuasion? Should we be opening our minds to other points of view, or closing them…
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Opinion ‘Bernie Bro’ aggression is actually political engagement. And that’s a good thing.
If you’ve read anything about Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders, you’ve probably heard of the infamous “Bernie Bro.” The political media has made a veritable meme out of a faction of overly enthusiastic Sanders supporters, some of whom engage in rude behavior online towards other candidates and their supporters. While most…
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