This week, Zev Mishell, Nationwide Packages Affiliate at Interfaith Alliance, joins host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush to debate the intersection of systemic violence, hate crimes, and non secular and political ideologies in America. Zev is the creator of Interfaith Alliance’s new report, Collectively Towards Hate, which intently analyzes how interfaith actions can handle hate-based violence by uniting throughout variations whereas additionally analyzing how White Christian Nationalism is driving the alarming rise of hate in America.
The report contains case research of profitable methods, sensible suggestions, and a information to organizations working to fight hate and extremism within the U.S. It’s based mostly on intensive analysis and interviews with practically two dozen advocacy organizations devoted to faith-based organizing, upholding civil rights and confronting hate. The total report shall be launched on Monday, January thirteenth, on the Interfaith Alliance web site.
“Faith is contextual, and it could actually present itself in extraordinarily damaging and violent methods. It will probably divide us from each other. It will probably create supremacist outlooks. It will probably create and be influenced by ethno-nationalist outlooks. And possibly it’d be higher if we might simply say, faith is horrible. We are able to eliminate it. Nice. However we are able to’t. As a result of in the end, so many individuals discover religious and political inspiration from their religions.”
– Zev Mishell, Nationwide Packages Affiliate at Interfaith Alliance and a graduate pupil at Harvard Divinity Faculty. He graduated with honors from Princeton College with a level in Close to Japanese Research, specializing in Israel/Palestine and the historical past of the Israeli Far Proper. Mishell has printed in quite a few media shops, together with The Ahead, Faith Information Service, and the Tel Aviv Assessment of Books.
