Jerusalem is an overwhelming city. In the tradition of absurdist thought, nothing is truly meaningful, and any meaning has to be somewhat arbitrarily imposed onto the world. Jerusalem poses a significant empirical challenge to this notion: every stone of every street bursts with historical significance. It is overwhelming for the psyche to become aware of [...]
Continue reading about Faith Wars: How holiness drives the Israeli-Arab conflict
I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree THERE’S an element of poignancy, and not a little irony in the opening lines of (Alfred) Joyce Kilmer’s poem, Trees, given the news that a deranged Christian organisation, God-TV, is conspiring with Israel to use a tree-planting programme to oust Bedouin Arabs from [...]
Continue reading about Crazy apocalyptic Christian organisation sows seeds of discontent in Israel
A DANISH pig farmer is in hiding today after receiving death threats from Muslim groups who accused him of branding a pig with the Arabic word “Allah”. Gerulf Toksvig, 53, who has a farm near Aarhus, caused outrage this week when he invited reporters to examine the “miracle” markings on his prize piglet, Paprika. Said [...]
EMMY-award winning comedienne Roseanne Barr, herself of Jewish ancestry, has blasted Israel for its continuing attacks on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, calling Israel a “Nazi state” bent on torturing “the Jewish soul”. The destruction of the Jews in Israel has been assured with this inhuman attack on civilians in Gaza. Exactly as its [...]
Continue reading about Roseanne Barr tears into ‘Zionist Nazis’ and fundamentalist Christians
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
